He also has 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). His works are noted by music critics for featuring avant-garde styles and introspective, elliptical lyrics. Just for Today: I will remember that I am a beacon to all who follow in my path, a vision of hope.Ģ007-2023, NA World Services, Inc.Christopher Francis Ocean (born Christopher Edwin Breaux October 28, 1987), is an American singer, songwriter, and rapper. And that newcomer will remember that others walked through that difficulty and stayed clean. It is good, though, to openly admit the nature of our struggles in recovery for, in time, the newcomer will be walking through those same trials. Yes, the newcomer sometimes places us on a pedestal. It takes them time to realize that we, the "oldtimers" with three or six or ten years clean, often place personalities before principles or suffer from some other unsightly character defects. They tend to see us through "rose-colored glasses." They don't always recognize our struggle with a particular character defect or our difficulties with improving our conscious contact with our Higher Power. Newcomers hear us carry a message of hope to them. They believe in us until they learn to believe in themselves. The newcomers see the joyful light in our eyes, notice how we carry ourselves, listen to us speak in meetings, and often want what we have found. What an inspiration it was, then, coming to our first meeting and seeing a room full of addicts who were staying clean! A clean addict is, indeed, a vision of hope. We believed we were destined to die from our disease. By the time we reached the end of our road, many of us had lost all hope for a life without the use of drugs.
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