Billy Ocean

Leslie Sebastian Charles born 21 January 1950 known professionally as Billy Ocean is a TrinidadianBritish singer and songwriter Between 1976 and 1988 he had a series of hit songs in the UK and internationally He achieved breakthrough success with the 1976 single Love Really Hurts Without You His second single was released under the stage name Billy Ocean and peaked at no 2 in the UK and no 3 in Australia In 1977 his single Red Light Spells Danger also peaked at no 2 He released the single Caribbean Queen No More Love on the Run in 1984 In the UK the song peaked at no 6 In the US it entered the Billboard Hot 100 at no 85 but peaked at no 1 ten weeks later Ocean won the 1985 Grammy Award for Best Male RB Vocal Performance for the song It also charted in Australia Canada Ireland New Zealand South Africa and across Europe under three different titles In 1985 When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Get Going peaked at no 1 in the UK and no 2 in the US the following year In July of 1986 he achieved an American no 1 with the single Therell Be Sad Songs To Make You Cry In 1988 his single Get Outta My Dreams Get into My Car reached no 1 in the US and no 3 in the UK In 2010 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the MOBO Awards and he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to music Description above from the Wikipedia article Billy Ocean licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia