Frank Ocean Biography

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NAME: Frank Ocean
OCCUPATION: Songwriter, Singer
BIRTH DATE: October 28, 1987 (Age: 25)
PLACE OF BIRTH: Long Beach, California
Originally: Christopher Lonny Breaux
AKA: Frank Ocean
Full Name: Christopher Francis Ocean
AKA: Christopher Breaux
AKA: Christopher Ocean
ZODIAC SIGN: Scorpio

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Frank Ocean is a singer-songwriter and member of the hip-hop collective Odd Future. He's best known for the albums nostalgia, ULTRA and channel ORANGE.

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'channel ORANGE'

Still riding the wave of success that followed his release of nostalgia, ULTRA, Ocean began to work on a follow-up album to be released by Def Jam records, with whom he had begun to repair his relationship. In June 2012, a track from the forthcoming album, called Pyramids, was released, again on Ocean’s Tumblr site. The following month he performed another track from the album on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Also in July, Ocean posted an open letter to his website, in which he revealed that he was gay. Many of his colleagues in the music business immediately showed their public support for his courageous decision to do so.

Ocean’s second album, channel ORANGE, was released for download on iTunes on July 10, 2012, a week earlier than scheduled, to avoid the album being leaked on the Internet. Within hours of its release, the album was No. 1 on the Top Albums chart. Ocean also made the album available to stream in full on his Tumblr site. A week later, channel ORANGE was released in all other formats.

Like nostalgia ULTRA, channel ORANGE met with almost universal critical acclaim, topping music charts around the world and earning Ocean comparisons to such R&B greats as Prince and Stevie Wonder. Most notably, the album went on to win the 2013 Grammy Award for best urban contemporary album. Additionally, "No Church in the Wild," written by Jay-Z and Kanye West and featuring Ocean's vocals, won the 2013 Grammy for best rap/sung collaboration.