Frank Ocean

Frank Ocean is an American independent singer, songwriter, rapper, and photographer. Known for his idiosyncratic musical style, Ocean first embarked on a career as a ghostwriter, and in 2010 he became a member of hip hop collective Odd Future.

He released his breakout mix tape, Nostalgia, Ultra, to critical acclaim in 2011. It generated his first charting single “Novacane”. In 2012, Ocean finished second place in the BBC’s Sound of 2012 poll.

Date of birth:
28th October, 1987
"Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time."
― Frank Ocean
Topic(s): Movies
"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."
― Frank Ocean
Topic(s): Mom
"The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me."
― Frank Ocean
Topic(s): Cool
"It’s cool to be recognised by your peers."
― Frank Ocean
Topic(s): Cool
"I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication."
― Frank Ocean
Topic(s): Communication

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