Billy Ocean To Perform At The Hamptons Jazz Festival

The famous Hamptons Jazz festival will next year March bring in among other great names, Billy Ocean.

Billy Ocean  has sold over 30 million records in his lifetime and has never performed in Botswana before.

Ocean has collected a pile of Gold and Platinum records across the world and hit the number one spot worldwide on pop charts including the USA, Australia, Germany, Holland, and the UK. He has achieved extraordinary success as both an artist and a songwriter.

Billy Ocean got his first break when he signed to GTO records, for whom his second single was the Motown-ish Love Really Hurts Without You, which reached number two in the UK charts and Number 12 in the US.

Two 20 singles followed along with Love on Delivery and Stop Me, then Red Light Spells Danger became a smash hit in both the UK and the US.

He  changed record labels and his move to Jive Records provided instant success, with the million selling American number one single Caribbean Queen (for which Billy Ocean won a Grammy for best R&B Vocal), followed by Loverboy, and Suddenly, which became the first of Billy’s killer ballads.  The album from which these singles came from spent a year in the US Charts selling double platinum (triple in Canada).  Billy also performed on the American half of Live Aid, making 1985 a truly incredible year for him.

Also performing at the event will be  Salif Keita of the hit song ‘Africa’, Socca Moruakgomo and thabang Garogwe among others.