Eliades Ochoa
| Eliades Ochoa | |
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Ochoa performing live May 2009
Photo: Juan Gonzales Andres |
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| Background information | |
| Born |
22 June 1946 Songo – La Maya, Cuba |
| Genres | Latin jazz, salsa |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, record producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, tres |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Associated acts | Cuarteto Patria |
| Website | http://www.eliadesochoaofficial.com/ |
Eliades Ochoa (born 22 June 1946) is a Cuban guitarist and singer from Loma de la Avispa, Songo La Maya in the east of the country near Santiago de Cuba.
He began playing the guitar when he was six and in 1978 he was invited to join Cuarteto Patria, a group founded in 1939, as its leader. Although he looks like a guajiro, and he still wears his trademark cowboy hat, his roots are in the son, and he only agreed to take on the role of leader if he was allowed to introduce new elements to the repertoire. He plays the guitar, tres and also a variant of the guitar, with two additional strings. His involvement with the Buena Vista Social Club and the Wim Wenders film of the same name (1999), has led him to worldwide fame.
In 2010 he recorded an album with a number of Cuban and Malian musicians, including Toumani Diabaté, titled AfroCubism.
1980 Harina de maíz criolla
1980 Son de Oriente
1982 María Cristina me quiere gobernar
1989 Chanchaneando con Compay Segundo
1993 A una coqueta
1993 Se soltó un león
1992 La parranda del Teror con el Cuarteto Patria
1995 La trova de Santiago de Cuba. ¡Ay, mamá, qué bueno!
1996 Eliades Ochoa y el Cuarteto Patria
1996 Buena Vista Social Club
1996 CubÁfrica
1998 Cuidadito Compay gallo...que llegó el perico
1999 Continental Drifter
1999 Sublime Ilusión
2000 Grandes éxitos de Eliades Ochoa
2000 Tributo al Cuarteto Patria
2002 Estoy como nunca
2004 Un guajiro sin fronteras
2005 Las 5 leyendas
2010 AfroCubism
2011 Un Bolero Para Ti
2011 Mi guitarra canta
2011 Eliades y la Banda del Jigüe
2012 Lo más reciente de Eliades Ochoa
2014 El Eliades que Soy
2015 Lost and Found
2016 Los años no determinan
1996 Manu Dibango, CD CubÁfrica
1996 Bévinda, CD Hasta siempre comandante
1998 Cyrius Martínez, CD De Santiago a Baracoa
1999 Charlie Musselwhite, CD Continental Drifter
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