Awards & Winners

Eliades Ochoa

Date of Birth 22-June-1946
Place of Birth Songo – La Maya
(Santiago de Cuba Province)
Nationality Cuba
Also know as Eliades Ochoa Bustamante
Profession Musician, Record producer, Songwriter, Guitarist, Singer
Eliades Ochoa 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 tres, and also a variant called cuatro. His involvement with the Buena Vista Social Club and the Wim Wenders film of the same name, 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.

Awards by Eliades Ochoa

Check all the awards nominated and won by Eliades Ochoa.

2012


Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Album
Honored for : Un Bolero Para Ti

Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Album Un Bolero Para Ti

2003


Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Album Estoy Coma Nunca