There is no denying that Frank Ocean is one of our generation’s greatest minds. We were all in his gripping hands as we waited for Boys Don’t Cry. Ocean’s visual album Endless was published on Friday, and he is rumored to be releasing the album formerly known as Boys Don’t Cry the following weekend.
The man we call Ocean, though, was not always so eponymous. The mysterious Frank Ocean changed his name. Yet why? The feeling of empowerment within oneself is the solution.
Why did Frank Ocean change his name?
Although he was given the name Christopher Edwin Breaux at birth, Ocean chose to go by Frank Ocean instead, a recluse with a floating falsetto voice. In March 2014, TMZ reported that Ocean had submitted the necessary paperwork for the name change.
According to Vibe, the artist formerly known as Breaux received his wish and transformed it into his final form, Christopher Francis Ocean, over a year later, in April 2015. Some driver’s license concerns, according to reports, were the cause of the year-long delay. Leave it to the DMV to stifle a dreamer’s imagination
