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name: "Eliades Ochoa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/eliades-ochoa"
roles: ["Musician"]
born: "22 June 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T01:44:10.682006+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Eliades Ochoa

Musician. Born 22 June 1946 in Songo La Maya, Cuba.

## Details

- **Work:** Musician
- **Born:** 22 June 1946, Songo La Maya, Cuba
- **Also known as:** Eliades Ochoa Bustamante
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliades_Ochoa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q988845, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0643733/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1196996

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Buena Vista Social Club*](https://film.one/film/buena-vista-social-club.md) (76)

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## Biography

Eliades Ochoa Bustamante is a Cuban guitarist, singer and songwriter. Born on 22 June 1946 in Songo La Maya, he began playing the guitar at the age of six. In 1978 he joined Cuarteto Patria as its leader, a role he has held while maintaining the group’s tradition of Cuban folk music.

Ochoa is best known internationally for his contributions to the Buena Vista Social Club album and the 1999 Wim Wenders documentary of the same name, in which he appears as Self. He has released numerous solo albums and collaborated with artists including Manu Dibango and Ry Cooder.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, eliadesochoaofficial.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Buena Vista Social Club* (1999), Fi1m 76, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/buena-vista-social-club.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Amoramar* (2023), Songs
- *Mambo Man* (2020), Songs
- *Buena Vista Social Club* (1999), Musician — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/buena-vista-social-club.md)

## Gallery

- ![Eliades Ochoa](https://film.one/media/person/672806/gallery-9d8f20a7585c.jpg) Eliades Ochoa — Juan Gonzales Andres, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Eliades_Ochoa1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Eliades Ochoa, concierto en Madrid, España (2006)](https://film.one/media/person/672806/gallery-a274f3bc9886.jpg) Eliades Ochoa, concierto en Madrid, España (2006) — M.Peinado, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Eliades_Ochoa.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Eliades Ochoa Casa de la trova (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/672806/gallery-c6215ce46caf.jpg) Eliades Ochoa Casa de la trova (2016) — IriFe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Eliades_Ochoa_en_Santiago.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Das Zelt-Musik-Festival 2015 in Freiburg im Breisgau. 06.07.2015 Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club Eliades Ochoa](https://film.one/media/person/672806/gallery-db969fe7310f.jpg) Das Zelt-Musik-Festival 2015 in Freiburg im Breisgau. 06.07.2015 Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club Eliades Ochoa — Ice Boy Tell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/ZMF_2015_Buena_Vista_Social_Club_Orchestra_IMGP9356.jpg/1280px-ZMF_2015_Buena_Vista_Social_Club_Orchestra_IMGP9356.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Das Zelt-Musik-Festival 2015 in Freiburg im Breisgau. 06.07.2015 Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club Eliades Ochoa](https://film.one/media/person/672806/gallery-18c9c6f8f4be.jpg) Das Zelt-Musik-Festival 2015 in Freiburg im Breisgau. 06.07.2015 Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club Eliades Ochoa — Ice Boy Tell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/ZMF_2015_Buena_Vista_Social_Club_Orchestra_IMGP9357.jpg/1280px-ZMF_2015_Buena_Vista_Social_Club_Orchestra_IMGP9357.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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