Artist of the 1970s Billy Ocean

Leslie Sebastian Charles was born in 1950 in Trinidad and moved to the UK when he was only eight years old. He changed his name to Billy Ocean after Ocean Estate where he use to live in London, and use to be a pub singer and a tailor in the very early 1970s.

His very first UK single was Love Really Hurts Without You getting to the number two slot in the UK in 1976. The single came from his album Billy Ocean. This fast paced fun single made Billy launch his 1970s career.