The Cuban son back to the US by the hand of Eliades Ochoa
- Submitted by: Juana
- Culture and Traditions
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- 02 / 02 / 2016
The Cuban singer and guitarist Eliades Ochoa, a member of traditional music project Buena Vista Social Club, recorded two albums with popular songs that have all "tastiness" of the province of "musical island".
Eliades (born 22 June 1946) 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 (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.
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