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Billy Ocean

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Born 21 January 1950.

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Biography

Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles, 21 January 1950, Fyzabad, Trinidad) is a Grammy Award-winning British-based popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues-tinged international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the main British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the 1980s. He waited seven years after scoring his first four UK top 20 successes, before accumulating a series of transatlantic successes, including three U.S. number ones.

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Albums releases

Release title Release date
Because I Love You 2009
Tear Down These Walls 1988
Love Zone 1986
Suddenly 1984
Billy Ocean 1975
 

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    BBC Radio 2 | Ken Bruce 14/12/2009
     
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