Cuban singer Eliades Ochoa won the Latin Grammy thanks to the album “Un bolero para ti” ( A bolero for you), which had been nominated for Best Traditional Tropical Music Album at the event organized every year by the Latin Recording Academy, whose awards gala took place last Thursday.
"A bolero for you" is a phonographic production with which, as its name indicates, Ochoa, director of the Patria Quartet brings to our days classic Cuban boleros, the ones people always sing and reach a new level within Cuban music with his instrumentation.
This album was recorded in the Siboney studios, in Santiago de Cuba and it was licensed by EGREM record label as part of the trilogy “Lo más reciente de Eliades Ochoa” (The most recent of Eliades Ochoa), which shows several edges of his musical work. The CDs “Mi guitarra canta” ( My guitar sings), which is entirely instrumental and “Eliades Ochoa y la banda del Jigüe” (Eliades Ochoa and the band of Jigüe), in which he retakes Cuban traditional music, are part of this compilation.
Eliades Ochoa had already won two Grammy Awards with Buena Vista Social Club; he shared those honors with Omara Portuondo and Ibrahim Ferrer, two of the main members of that musical project.
This renowned Cuban musician has been nominated five times to the Latin Grammy Awards all along his musical trajectory.
Los Van Van with his latest album "La Maquinaria"(The machinery) and the Villa Clara Creole Quintet with the phonogram " La Trova de Siempre" ( The usual trova) of Colibri Productions, were the other two Cuban bands which had been nominated to the 2012 Latin Grammy.
