Billy Ocean
- MatchBilly Ocean
- 100%Lionel Richie
- 100%The Pointer Sisters
- 75%Tavares
- 73%Paul Young
- 70%Starship
- 69%Mr. Mister
- 67%Commodores
- 67%Dan Hartman
- 66%Kool & The Gang
- 62%Deniece Williams
Biography
Leslie Sebastian Charles, 21 January 1950, Trinidad, West Indies. Raised in England, Ocean worked as a session singer simultaneously with his employment at the Dagenham Ford Motor Company plant, before being signed by the GTO label as a solo artist. His early UK hits included the number 2 singles Love Really Hurts Without You (1976) and Red Light Spells Danger (1977), two purposeful, if derivative, performances. The singers subsequent releases fared less well, and... Read more