Billy Ocean is a globally famous Trinidadian-English recording craftsman who generated huge worldwide singles like Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) and is viewed as the most well known British R&B artist and lyricist in the mid-1980s.
Billy got hugely into music early and sang routinely in London clubs. The main single 'Love Really Hurts Without' You from his debut album Billy Ocean came to #2 in the UK Singles Chart accumulating him early fame. He then, at that point, proceeded to create a variety of R&B worldwide pop hits during the 1970s and 1980s. These consisted of singles Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car, Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) that won him a Grammy Award, and 'When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going' that was utilized as signature melody for the blockbuster hit Michael Douglas film, The Jewel of the Nile; as additionally platinum certified albums Suddenly, Love Zone and Tear Down These Walls.
He was given honorary doctorate of music from the University of Westminster; given Lifetime Achievement Award at the MOBO Awards; and made a Companion of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
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