Billy Ocean
Billy Ocean
Billy Oceanis a Trinidadian-born English recording artist who had a string of R&B international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British R&B singer-songwriter of the early to mid-1980s. After scoring his first four UK Top 20 successes, seven years passed before he accumulated a series of transatlantic successes, including three U.S. number ones. In 1985, Ocean won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his worldwide hit, "Caribbean Queen", and in...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth21 January 1950
CityFyzabad, Trinidad And Tobago
Success can create more madness than happiness.
When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.
Get out of my dreams, get into my car.
And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.
My first instrument was a little blue ukele.
Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.
I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work