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Eliades Ochoa

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Eliades Ochoa Bustamante (born 22 June 1946) 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 guitar, tres and also a variant of the guitar, with two additional strings. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eliades Ochoa is the 971st most popular musician (down from 898th in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Cuba (down from 73rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Cuban Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Eliades Ochoa ranks 971 out of 3,175. Before him are Julius Klengel, Ludwig Göransson, Adam Clayton, Wolf Hoffmann, Bernhard Romberg, and Steven Wilson. After him are Jean-Luc Ponty, Abdullah Ibrahim, Marco Di Meco, Juan Luis Guerra, Ron McGovney, and Selda Bağcan.

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Among people born in 1946, Eliades Ochoa ranks 373. Before him are Robert Gadocha, Gérard Grisey, Bernard Maris, Daouda Malam Wanké, Gordon Murray, and Davorin Popović. After him are Slobodan Santrač, Sanjay Gandhi, Ognyan Gerdzhikov, Andreas Katsulas, Don Schollander, and Stephen P. Synnott.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Eliades Ochoa ranks 77 out of 300. Before him are Pío Leyva (1917), Dámaso Berenguer (1873), Ramón Fonst (1883), Rico Rodriguez (1934), Frank País (1934), and Jorge Bolet (1914). After him are Félix Rodríguez (1941), Laurel Aitken (1927), José Miró Cardona (1902), Yoel Romero (1977), Ana Mendieta (1948), and Pablo Milanés (1943).

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Among MUSICIANS In Cuba

Among musicians born in Cuba, Eliades Ochoa ranks 9. Before him are Bebo Valdés (1918), Rubén González (1919), Chucho Valdés (1941), Pío Leyva (1917), Rico Rodriguez (1934), and Jorge Bolet (1914). After him are Dave Lombardo (1965), Paquito D'Rivera (1948), Rudy Sarzo (1950), Arturo Sandoval (1949), Aurelio Voltaire (1967), and Armando Peraza (1924).

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