Tag Archives: Eliades Ochoa

Less a music group than an assemblage of a few of Cuba’s most renowned music forces, Buena Vista Sociable Club’s origins lay with noted American guitarist Ry Cooder, who also in 1996 traveled to Havana to search out several legendary local music artists whose performing professions had largely ended years …

Aimed by ex-Sierra Maestra drummer Juan De Marcos Gonzalez, the Afro-Cuban All Stars have already been necessary to the developing worldwide popularity of Afro-Cuban music. Their 1997 recording, A Toda Cuba Le Gusta, was the first ever to be recorded through the now-legendary Buena Vista Sociable Club classes. A multi-generational …

From the outset of his career until 50 years later when Buena Vista Social Club produced him children name, Eliades Ochoa built his repertoire from Cuban traditional music, specifically sons, guarachas, guajiras, and boleros. As a kid, he learned to try out acoustic guitar and tres (an modified guitar), and …