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10 Things you should know about Frank Ocean
- Christopher Francis Ocean, stage name Frank Ocean is an American singer-songwriter
- Frank Ocean was born in October 28 1987, in Long Beach, California. When he was around five years old, he and his family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana.
- He grew up around a local jazz scene and listened to his mother’s CDs on her car stereo, including albums by Celine Dion, Anita Baker, and The Phantom of the Opera soundtrack.
- Ocean’s early career was as a ghostwriter for artists such as Brandy, Justin Bieber, John Legend and Beyonce Knowles.
- As a teenager, Frank Ocean did neighbourhood chores and saved up money to rent studio time.[ He recorded demos at a friend’s studio and shopped them around Los Angeles.
- Frank Ocean won a Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album.
- He also won a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. for his work on Jay-Z and West’s “No Church in the Wild”.
- Ocean’s music has been characterized by music writers as idiosyncratic in style
- Ocean describes himself as “a baritone, with tenor moments
- Ocean became one of the first major African-American music artists to announce that he had fallen in love with someone of the same sex, notable because the music scene is known to be Homophobic.
