Eliades Ochoa Bustamante (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 Wendersfilm 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
Albums
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)
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. p. 257,
ISBN978-0826455864
^Jon Lusk (11 December 2010).
"REVIEW : AFROCUBISM". Soundsandcolours.com. Retrieved 20 March 2020.