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David Oquendo

Associate Music Director, Additional Arrangements, Guitar

A native of Havana, Cuba, David is a highly accomplished and respected interpreter of many diverse styles of Cuban music. As a guitarist, singer, composer and arranger he rose to fame performing and recording with Paquito D’ Rivera, Johnny Ventura, Compay Segundo, Maestro Chico O’Farrill and Marc Anthony to mention a few. He is recipient of a Grammy Award for the album Tropicana’s Nights with Paquito D’Rivera, three Grammy Nominations for Heart of a Legend with Chico O’Farrill, Bebop Timba with Raphael Cruz and Entre Colegas with Andy Gonzalez, also three Latin Grammy Nominations for his production Raices Habaneras, 50 Years of Mambo of Latin Jazz USA and Paquito D’Rivera Presenta Las Hermanas Marquez with Paquito D’ Rivera.