Eliades Ochoa Bustamante . Guitarist and singer. Singer-songwriter formed in peasant environment. Is qualified as one of the most

important Cuban all-time soneros and an important advocate of the Cuban traditional music.

Early
Was born in Alto Songo, WaSP Loma, East, the 22 June of 1946 . He started playing guitar when he was only 6 years old and 1958, when it already reached the stature of his guitar, he started to work to earn a living playing his music in the neighborhoods prostitutes in Santiago de Cuba, thus giving beginning to his career professional. their involvement with the Buena Vista Social Club Group and the film of Wim Menders of the same name have achieved you a reputation abroad of Cuba, although it was already known in the music world.

Trajectory
In the 1960s was part of Oriental Quintet began his artistic career in Santiago de Cuba in 1963 , on the radio program “Agrarian trench-Trinchera agrarian”, which is transmitted by the CMKC ; later joined in the Septeto Típico Oriental, and later in 1978 to the Patria Quartet a group that has been active since its founding in 1940, directed by Francisco Cobas la O (Pancho), to whom Ochoa replaced in that role in1978.

With Compay Segundo
In 1986 the Quartet featured performances of Francisco Repilado Compay Segundo (), not only in presentations at Cuba , but also abroad.
This would be the beginning of the revival of Compay Segundo to the world of art. In 1997, along with other musicians, obtained the award Grammy by the CD Buena Vista Social Club, in the category music tropical; in the same participated, Furthermore, Juan de Marcos, Rubén González, Raúl Planas, Ibrahim Ferrer, Manuel Licea (Puntillita), Manuel Mirabal Pío Leyva Compay Segundo (El Kleinfeld )( ), And Joachim Cooder Ry ; in addition, boasts four gold records and one Platinum.
In 2000 his Sublime illusion album was nominated for a Grammy Award, and 2001 , Tribute to the Patria Quartet. He recorded the CD Continental, with Charles Mussewhite; Africando, with Cameroonian saxophonist Mango Dibango, and in 2001, won the music award of the General Society of authors and editors of Spain (SGAE) and the Association of interpreters and performers of Spain (AIE), this last one for the best album of traditional music.

Tours
Has toured by Guadalupe , Martinique , Granada , Curaçao , Nicaragua , Brazil , Dominican Republic , Mexico , Puerto Rico , United States (acted in the Carnegie Hall of New York), Canada , Spain , France (presented at the Olympia of Paris), Holland , Italy , Japan.

Films
Eliades Ochoa with the Buena Vista Social Club participated in the film Cubanísimo of an American filmmaker where he received international critical acclaim and was nominated for the Grammy Award, in the category of best contemporary tropical album in 2010.