Eliades Ochoa is a Cuban guitarist and singer born in Loma de la Avispa, Songo La Maya in the east of the country near Santiago on June 22 1946. He began playing the guitar when he was six and in 1978 he joined Cuarteto Patria, a band that has played since 1940. His roots are in "guajira" (Cuban country music) and he still wears his trademark cowboy hat. He plays the tres, and also a variant called "cuatro" (with two additional strings). Wikipedia
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Sublime Illusion is the title of the 1999 CD by Eliades Ochoa and Cuarteto Patria. The album is part of the popular Buena Vista Social Club series on the Higher Octave World label. Eliades Ochoa is the leader of Cuarteto Patria and plays the tres, a Cub www.acousticmusic.com/fame/p01211.htm
The 54-year-old Ochoa contributes substantially to the Buena Vista magic. The first voice we hear on that disc's sultry opening son , "Chan Chan," is his. And though singers Compay Segundo and Ibrahim Ferrer ultimately emerge as the smoothest and most v www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/music/99/09/09/ELIADES_OCHO...
Eliades Ochoa was born in a rural area, Songo La Maya , in 1946. When he turned 11 years old, Ochoa began to play in bars and houses of ill repute in Santiago de Cuba, out of necessity. Since he was so young, almost as big as his guitar, that attracted www.imdb.com/name/nm0643733/
Sublime Illusion is the title of the 1999 CD by Eliades Ochoa and Cuarteto Patria. The album is part of the popular Buena Vista Social Club series on the Higher Octave World label. Eliades Ochoa is the leader of Cuarteto Patria and plays the tres, a Cub www.worldmusiccentral.org/artists/artist_page.php?id=772
