Hurricane Katrina Nearly Ruined His Career Ocean was a student at the University of New Orleans, his hometown, in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina was threatening to make landfall — and hard. “I had just moved into my dorm,” he said in an interview last year. “I was doing laundry, and my mom called me like, ‘We’ve got to evacuate.'” At the time, Ocean had already begun recording in a nearby studio. And when he returned after the storm’s devastation, he discovered the studio had been looted and its equipment was gone. At that, he quit school and drove to Los Angeles to re-record the lost music in what was supposed to be a six-week stay (he never returned to NOLA). In 2009, Ocean met the alternative hip-hop collective Odd Future (he worked on a number of songs for their debut album, which peaked at No. 5 on Billboard), before he was signed by Def Jam as a solo artist the next year.
Coldplay Have Asked Him to Be Their Opening Act Ocean landed on the radar of Coldplay after he covered their song “Strawberry Swing” on 2011’s Nostalgia, Ultra. The band — fronted by Jay-Z’s good friend Chris Martin — was so impressed he invited the R&B singer to be one of their opening acts for the European leg of their tour, which begins August 28 and runs until the end of September.
Frank Ocean: “Sweet Life”
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