Frank Ocean was born on October 28th 1987,in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina destroyed his recording studio in New Orleans which prompted his move out to LA. Ocean started out ghostwriting tracks for pop stars such as Justin Bieber and Beyoncé, but decided on a career change:There was a point where I was composing for other people, and it might have been comfy to continue to do that and enjoy that income stream and the anonymity,“ he says. "But that’s not why I moved away from school and away from family. He signed to Def Jam but after their refusal to let him release his album, he self-released the mixtape nostalgia, ULTRA. to critical acclaim. His follow-up album, Channel ORANGE was released in 2012 to both critical and commercial acclaim, winning him a Grammy in 2013 for “Best Urban Contemporary Album”. In 2016 he released his second studio album Blonde four years after the release of channel ORANGE. It was first teased on Frank’s Tumblr for a July 2015 release as Boys Don’t Cry but no album surfaced. The next update to his website was in July 2016, a library card indicating a release in July, subtitled “Late.” Then on August 1st a live-stream titled Endless appeared on his website which became, after two weeks, a visual album. Two days later Frank dropped Blonde. Since releasing his last two albums, Frank has started a Beats One radio show, named blonded. On this show, he debuts new music and remixes of previously released songs, as well as some of the songs on his own playlist.