Billy Ocean Net Worth
What is Billy Ocean’s net worth?
Billy Ocean, MBE is a Trinidadian-British singer and songwriter who has a net worth of $12 million. He released his debut album “Billy Ocean” in 1976 and has since released 10 more albums including “Suddenly” (1984) and “Love Zone” (1986), both of which received 2x in the US Certified Platinum, and British Ocean’s Gold is known for hits such as “Love Without You Really Hurts”, “When Things Get Tough, The Tough Begins”, “Get Out Of My Dreams Into My Car” and Grammy winner “Queen of the Caribbean (No More Love on the Run).” Billy was appointed a Fellow of the Liverpool Academy of Performing Arts in 2011 and a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2020.
early life
Billy Ocean was born Leslie Sebastian Charles on January 21, 1950 in Fizabad, Trinidad and Tobago. Ocean’s parents, Violet and Hainsley (musicians) both work, so his eldest sister often takes care of Billy and his siblings. When Ocean was 10, the family moved to Romford, England, and as a teenager Billy performed in London clubs and worked as a tailor. He was discovered by John Morphew, who later became his manager and recorded a single at Pye Studios. Morphew was unable to get any major labels interested in the single, so Ocean’s father asked him to release Billy’s contract. Morphew said yes, and Ocean joined London-based band The Shades of Midnight in 1969. In 1971 Billy recorded the single “Nashville Rain”/”Sun in the Morning” for Spark Records under the name Les Charles, and he spent two years as lead singer of the studio band Scorched Earth, releasing the single “” in 1974 On the Run”/”Let’s Put Our Emotions in Motion”. He has said he chose the name “Billy Ocean” because of Trinidad and Tobago football team Ocean 11.
Profession
Ocean’s self-titled debut album was released in 1976, and the single “Love Really Hurts Without You” won Gold in the UK. His debut album of 2010 was “Feel Inside.” His fifth album, 1984’s “Suddenly,” was certified Gold in the UK, 2x Platinum in the US, 3x Platinum in Canada, and certified in the US, Top 10 on the UK and Finnish charts. The single “Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)” topped the “Billboard” Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts, as well as the Canadian and New Zealand charts, while the singles “Loverboy” and “Suddenly” also very popular. Billy’s 1986 album “Love Zone” reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200, No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart, and went platinum twice in the US and Canada.The single “When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going” was used as the theme song for the 1985 film “Pearl of the Nile”, which charted at number one in several countries and was certified gold in the UK
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Ocean released another single, “Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car” from the 1988 album Tear Down These Walls. The album was certified platinum in the US and Canada and gold in the UK and Australia, and reached number two on the UK Albums Chart. In 1989, Billy released “Greatest Hits” which went platinum in the US, UK and Canada. He released only one studio album in the ’90s, “Time to Move On” in 1993, which included the singles “Pressure”, “Pick Up the Pieces (Put It Back)” and “Everything’s So different without You” “. It took 16 years for Ocean to release his next studio album, “Because I Love You” in 2009, followed by “Here You Are” in 2013. In 2012, Ocean made a cameo appearance as the lead character’s father in the comedy “Keith Lemmon: The Movie,” and in 2016 he performed several hits on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.” In 2020, Billy released his eleventh studio album, One World, which peaked at number 14 on the UK Albums Chart.
personal life
In 1978, Billy married Judy Bayne, whom he had met at the age of 15. The couple, who live in Sunningdale, Berkshire, England, have three children, daughters Rachel and Cherie, and son Anthony. After his mother died of ovarian cancer, Ocean decided to follow a vegetarian lifestyle. He told the Daily Mail in 2012, “When my mother died of ovarian cancer in 1989, it changed my life. I watched how she lived – an honest, very hardworking woman – — Only died for three years After I successfully bought her a house and took care of her, I realized I had to take care of myself. So I took a five-year break from music to spend time with my wife and three children. I Become more spiritual and stop eating meat.”
Awards and Nominations
Ocean has been nominated for three Grammys, winning Best Male R&B Performance in 1985 for “Queen of the Caribbean.” His other nominations were Best R&B Song for “Queen of the Caribbean” and Best Male R&B Performance for “Love Zone”. ” Billy’s credits include “Queen of the Caribbean,” “Lover Boy,” “Suddenly,” “There Will Be Sad Songs (Makes You Cry),” “When Things Get Tough, The Tough Gets Go, “Love Is Forever” and “Get out of my dream and get in my car”. He was nominated for more than 20 “Billboard” Music Awards, and in 1986 was named one of the 100 Hottest Artists of 1986 – Male and Best Adult Contemporary Artist. In 2018, Ocean received the Ivor Novello International Achievement Award, and “Queen of the Caribbean” and “Going Out, My Dreams, Get into My Car” were both nominated for International Hits of the Year.
Billy received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 MOBO Awards and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music by the University of Westminster, London, in 2002. He was nominated for three American Music Awards in 1987: “There Will Be Sad Songs (Makes You Cry)”, “Favorite Male Soul/R&B Artist” and “Favorite Male Soul/R&B Video Artist”. It was nominated for three American Music Awards. Ocean was also nominated for the Soul Train Music Award (Album of the Year for “Love Zone” in 1987 – Male) and the Pollstar Concert Industry Award (Return of the Year in 1985).
