
Artist
Billy Ocean
Billy Ocean is a soul artist from Romford, UK formed in 1972. 29 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Soul · Romford, UK · Best soul albums
- 29
- Releases
- 1975–2023
- Active years
- 1972
- Formed

Artist
Billy Ocean is a soul artist from Romford, UK formed in 1972. 29 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Soul · Romford, UK · Best soul albums

Most popular
Suddenly
1984 · 9 tracks

Love Zone
1986

Nights Feel Like Getting Down
1981

City Limit
1980

Here You Are / The Best of Billy Ocean
2013

One World
2020

Inner Feelings
1982

Billy Ocean
1975

Tear Down These Walls
1988

Time to Move On
1993

Let's Get Back Together: The Love Songs of Billy Ocean
2003
In Motion
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Light Up the World With Sunshine
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Love Really Hurts Without You: The Greatest Hits of Billy Ocean
2021
Remixes and Rarities
2019
Here You Are
2013
Playlist: The Very Best Of Billy Ocean
2013
Very Best of Billy Ocean
2010

The Very Best of Billy Ocean
2010
Because I Love You
2009
Billy Ocean / City Limit
2009

The Best Of... / REVOKED NEW -> G010001877208R
2005
Greatest Hits
1989
Billy Ocean (born Leslie Charles; 21 January 1950 in Fyzabad, Trinidad) is a British recording artist who had a string of R&B international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British-based 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". Early life and stardom Ocean was born as Leslie Charles in Trinidad and Tobago to Grenadian parents, and moved to Romford, Essex, England with his family at the age of eight. Ocean's musical influence came at an early age of his life as his father was a musician, and Ocean realised he was in line to follow those ambitions as he was growing up. During his teenage years, he sang regularly in London clubs while also working as a tailor in London's Savile Row. He released his first single in 1972 on Spark Records as Les Charles. Ocean took his stage name from the Ocean Estate, Stepney, where he was living at the time. In 1976, he recorded his first album, Bil…