Eliades Ochoa. Photo: Taken from the official website of the City of Cartagena. La Mar de Músicas 2024 Award for Eliades Ochoa
Cuban musician Eliades Ochoa has been recognized with the La Mar de Músicas award, which will be presented to him on July 22 during the festival of the same name in Cartagena, Spain.
The mayor of the city, Noelia Arroyo, announced that the award will be given "to the brilliant guitarist and singer from Santiago, whose melodious voice has taken the authentic Cuban traditional music to the whole world".
This distinction has been received in previous years by Cuban musicians Omara Portuondo and Pablo Milanés, and internationally by Rubén Blades, Youssou N'Dour, Salif Keita, Totó la Momposina, Oumou Sangaré, Susana Baca, Cheick Lô, Gino Paoli and Jorge Drexler.
Eliades Ochoa is one of the founding members of the Buena Vista Social Club and among the numerous awards for his musical career, he was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of best contemporary tropical album in 2010.
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Rogelio Ramos Domínguez21.10.2023In 2012 he was awarded the Latin Grammy for best traditional tropical album with his album A bolero for you and in 2018 he received the Latin Award, in Canada.
The mayor of the city of Cartagena has defined him as "a reference and icon of traditional Cuban music, the one who is considered the best guitarist of his generation, one of the most important soneros of all times".
The La Mar de Músicas festival, which will award the artist this year, is held every year in Cartagena and is considered one of the most important in Europe, and its programming "approaches musical traditions from a contemporary vision", as defined by the website of the city council.
This year's festival will be held between July 19 and 27 and its program will be announced in April, when tickets will be available for sale.
