Eliades Ochoa

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Eliades Ochoa at the Tent Music Festival (2015)

Eliades Ochoa (born June 22, 1946 in Alto Songo, Songo - La Maya , in the Oriente province ) is a Cuban guitarist and singer.

Ochoa grew up listening to his parents' music in the country. In 1958 he began to play the tres , a type of guitar specially played in Cuba . From a very young age he played as a street musician in Santiago to support his parents financially. In 1978 he joined the band Cuarteto Patria , which had been known in Cuba since the 1940s.

He became known worldwide through the album " Buena Vista Social Club " produced by Ry Cooder and Wim Wenders ' film of the same name . In 2012 Ochoa won the Grammy in the “ Best Tropical Latin Album ” category for his album “Un bolero para ti”.

Discography

see also Buena Vista Social Club

album

  • A una coqueta (1993, as Cuarteto Patria)
  • The Lion Is Loose (Se soltó un león) (1996, as Cuarteto Patria)
  • CubAfrica (1998. with Manu Dibango )
  • Sublime ilusión (1999)
  • Tributo al Cuarteto Patria (2000)
  • Estoy como nunca (2002)
  • Un bolero para ti (2012)

In the AfroCubism project:

  • Afro-Cubism (2010)

Singles

  • My Papacito (Son Montuno)
  • Chan Chan (Eliades Ochoa & Compay Segundo) (1997)
  • El Carretero (1997)
  • El cuarto de Tula (Eliades Ochoa & Ibrahim Ferrer) (1997)
  • Qué lío, compay Andrés (2005)
  • Hemingway (Bløf & Eliades Ochoa) (2006)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ XIII Annual Latin Grammy Award Winners Announced , World Music Central, November 15, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Ochoa, Eliades
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban guitarist and singer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Alto Songo , Songo - La Maya , Oriente Province