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 enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.
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.
With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.
I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.
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.
As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.
The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.
I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
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.