Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean
Christopher Francis "Frank" Ocean, is an American singer, songwriter and rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana. Ocean embarked on his musical career as a ghostwriter for several prominent artists, including John Legend, Justin Bieber and Brandy. In 2010, he became a member of alternative hip hop collective Odd Future. Ocean subsequently released his breakout mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, to critical acclaim in 2011. It generated his first charting single "Novacane". In 2012, Ocean finished in second place in BBC's Sound of 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth28 October 1987
CityLong Beach, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I play piano every day. I enjoy that.
I might just write a novel next. I don't know!
The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me
When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics
If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion
I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.
I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.
It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.
Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go.
I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.
Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is 'that's what you do, that's what you are', and that's a little unfair, to me, because I don't just do that. So I like singer/songwriter because it allows me to move a little bit more freely.