Lionel was a recovering drug addict and later served as a mentor at Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings. was a father figure for Ocean after his father left the family. He was raised Christian, including a brief time as a practicing Catholic. When he was five years old, he and his family relocated to the New Orleans area. He also had a younger brother named Ryan Breaux who died in a car accident in 2020. He was raised by his mother after his parents divorced when he was six years old. His father is Calvin Edward Cooksey and was a singer and keyboardist, and his mother is Katonya Breaux Riley who later worked as a residential contractor. Ocean was born Christopher Edwin Breaux on October 28, 1987, in Long Beach, California. From 2017 onwards, Ocean released sporadic singles, worked as a photographer for magazines, launched the fashion brand Homer, and started Homer Radio. It was his first number-one album on the US Billboard 200 and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Blonde expanded on Ocean's experimental musical approach and ranked first on Pitchfork 's list of the best albums of the 2010s decade. Ocean self-released his second studio album, Blonde, a day after Endless 's release. He was named by Time as one of the world's most influential people in 2013.Īfter a four-year hiatus, Ocean released a visual album titled Endless in 2016 to fulfill contractual obligations with Def Jam. At the 2013 Grammy Awards, Channel Orange was nominated for Album of the Year and won Best Urban Contemporary Album one of its singles, " Thinkin Bout You", was nominated for Record of the Year. His first studio album, the eclectic Channel Orange (2012), incorporated R&B and soul styles. The following year, he released his first mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, and subsequently secured a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings. Ocean began his musical career as a ghostwriter, prior to joining the hip hop collective Odd Future in 2010. Ocean has won two Grammy Awards and a Brit Award for International Male Solo Artist among other accolades, and his two studio albums have been listed on Rolling Stone 's " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" (2020). According to some music critics his works feature avant-garde styles and introspective, elliptical lyrics. Christopher Francis Ocean (born Christopher Edwin Breaux October 28, 1987) is an American singer, songwriter, and rapper.
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