Born in New Orleans, Frank Ocean left for Los Angeles California just as Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005. Ocean joined Los Angeles based hip hop collective OFWGKTA, who he met through his connections, at the end of 2009. In 2010, he changed his name from Christopher Breaux to Christopher Francis Ocean via a legal website. And the story begins there. Ocean has written songs for the likes of John Legend, Brandy, NAS and Beyoncé Knowles but that’s only as late as last February that Ocean released his first mixtape called Nostalgia, Ultra which was immediatly acclaimed by the critic : “smart and subtle…setting him apart from the pack.” Rolling Stone magazine’s Jonah Weiner calls Ocean a “gifted avant-R&B smoothie”. Ocean appeared in Tyler, the Creator’s music video for the single “She”, from Tyler’s 2011 studio album Goblin. Ocean first performed with Odd Future at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival in April of 2011, then later joined his OFWGKTA bandmates for the first time on tour from May 12 to May 19, 2011. They toured the eastern seaboard of the United States.The single “Novacane” was released to iTunes on May 31 this year, confirming his successful debuts as solo artist. In June 2011, Ocean revealed on his Tumblr for our greatest pleasure and curiosity that he would be working on the upcoming Kanye West and Jay-Z collaborative album Watch the Throne. Ocean was ultimately a writer and featured artist on the tracks “No Church in the Wild” and “Made in America” turning his notoriety to another level. 

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