Eliades Ochoa
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 Ochoa performing live May 2009 Photo: Juan Gonzales Andres | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 22 June 1946 Songo – La Maya, Cuba |
| Genres | Latin jazz, salsa |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, record producer |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, tres |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| 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.[1]
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.[2]
Discography
- Harina de maíz criolla (1980)
- Son de Oriente (1980)
- María Cristina me quiere gobernar (1982)
- Chanchaneando con Compay Segundo (1989)
- La parranda del Teror con el Cuarteto Patria (1992)
- A una coqueta (1993)
- Se soltó un león (1993)
- La trova de Santiago de Cuba. ¡Ay, mamá, qué bueno! (1995)
- Eliades Ochoa y el Cuarteto Patria (1996)
- Buena Vista Social Club (1997)
- CubÁfrica (1996)
- Cuidadito Compay gallo...que llegó el perico (1998)
- Continental Drifter (1999)
- Sublime Ilusión (1999)
- Grandes éxitos de Eliades Ochoa (2000)
- Tributo al Cuarteto Patria (2000)
- Estoy como nunca (2002)
- Un guajiro sin fronteras (2004)
- Las 5 leyendas (2005)
- AfroCubism (2010)
- Un Bolero Para Ti (2011)
- Mi guitarra canta (2011)
- Eliades y la Banda del Jigüe (2011)
- Lo más reciente de Eliades Ochoa (2012)
- El Eliades que Soy (2014)
- Lost and Found (2015)
- Los años no determinan (2016)
Collaborations
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
1999 Hermanas Ferrín, CD Mi linda guajira
1999 Moncho (Ramón Calabuch Batista), CD Quédate conmigo
2000 Luis Eduardo Aute, CD Mira que eres canalla Aute!
2001 Jarabe de palo, CD De vuelta y vuelta
2004 Blof Umoja, CD Umoja
2010 Buena Fe, CD Pi 3,14
2010 William Vivianco, CD El mundo está cambiao
2011 Enrique Bunbury, CD Cantinas
2011 Lia (Ofelia), CD Lia, océano de amor
2013 David Blanco, CD Amigos
2013 Bob Dylan, CD From another world
2014 Pupy y los que son son (César Pedroso), CD Sin límites
2016 María Ochoa, CD Guajira más Guajira
References
- ^ alternatively, in Mayarí. Leymarie, Isabelle 2002. Cuban fire: the story of salsa and Latin jazz. Continuum, London; orig. publ. Paris 1997. p257
- ^ Afrocubism
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