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Cover of Mag:
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He moved with his mother from Long Beach, Calif., to New Orleans, where he lived until he was almost 18. His mother’s father, Lionel, became his de facto father for a while, and also the reason that the young Christopher Breaux — Ocean’s name before he changed it in 2010 — was known as Lonny. (His managers and friends still call him that.) Most of the pleasures that he recalls from his childhood were solitary: climbing onto neighboring rooftops, listening to music with his headphones on, reading. He didn’t stick with team sports because, as he put it, “I didn’t enjoy things I couldn’t envision myself being the best at.”
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I never knew that. 
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he will be performing at the Grammys this weekend, but he was willing to do so only if they let him play the song he wanted to play. Otherwise, he would have been happy to sit in the audience.
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Pyramids maybe? 
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So what’s next? Ocean told me he was headed to Shanghai after the Grammys with his equipment in tow, some new recordings already in hand, and plans to write “in remote locations for the next two years.” In previous interviews he mentioned also wanting to write a book. “I’ve started writing the book,” he told me. “You can say that. It’s fiction, and it’s about brothers. That’s all I’m going to say.”
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There goes any promo. 
Amazing article! 
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