BIOGRAPHY
Born Christopher Edwin Breaux on October 28, 1987, in Long Beach, California, Frank Ocean grew up mostly in New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina flooded the studio where he was recording in 2005, he relocated to Los Angeles to pursue music, initially ghostwriting for artists like Justin Bieber and Beyoncé before joining the Odd Future collective, working closely with Tyler, the Creator. His 2011 mixtape nostalgia, ULTRA launched his solo career, followed by channel ORANGE, which won the Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album and earned an Album of the Year nomination. His 2016 album Blonde debuted atop the Billboard 200, and its track Ivy was named Pitchfork's Best New Track and Rolling Stone's second-best song of 2016, with critic Rob Sheffield calling it "the most powerful song Ocean has created yet." In 2013, Time named Ocean to its list of the 100 most influential people in the world.