Since releasing his last two albums, Frank has started a Beats One radio show, titled blonded, where he debuts new music and remixes of previously released songs. The album was certified platinum in July of 2018. that institution certainly has nostalgic importance it just doesn’t seem to be representing very well for people who come from where I come from, and hold down what I hold down. Frank chose not to submit Blonde for consideration at the Grammy Awards, stating in the NY Times: Endless' abstract nature, its fusion of electronica, trap, and R&B, makes it Ocean’s most experimental release.Ĥ8 hours later, Frank dropped Blonde alongside a 360-page magazine entitled Boys Don’t Cry. The 45-minute video follows Frank building a staircase in an empty warehouse. His follow-up album, Channel ORANGE was released in 2012 to both critical and commercial acclaim, winning him a Grammy in 2013 for “Best Urban Contemporary Album”.Īfter a four year hiatus from music and multiple equivocal posts made on his Tumblr, Ocean returned with his visual album Endless that first began as a live stream on his website. He signed to Def Jam but after their refusal to let him release his album, he self-released the mixtape nostalgia, ULTRA. 'But that’s not why I moved away from school and away from family. There was a point where I was composing for other people, and it might have been comfy to continue to do that and enjoy that income stream and the anonymity,“ he says. Ocean started out ghostwriting tracks for pop stars such as Justin Bieber and Beyoncé, but decided on a career change: In 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed his recording studio in New Orleans which prompted his move out to LA, joining hip hop collective Odd Future later in 2009. It is reported that the name “Frank Ocean” was partially inspired by the original Ocean’s 11 (1960) film, which starred Frank Sinatra.

Ocean has earned cult-icon status with his enigmatic persona and idiosyncratic approach to pop. Christopher Edwin Breaux, professionally known as Frank Ocean, was born on the 28th of October, 1987 in Long Beach, California, before moving to New Orleans, Louisiana, at five.

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