Born in Las Tunas in 1970, but from a child he moved with his grandparents to live in the Isle of Youth, where he lived until 1992, when he moved to Havana.
It comes from a family of musicians. His grandfather was a director of the orchestra Oriental Body. His father, Ochoa Second, it was a drummer. This family background allowed him to live in a musical environment since childhood.
Began to emphasize its innate facility to sing. It was nine children sang in a duo with her sister Liset Ochoa: “I had the music it pretty close because my grandfather had the Eastern Star Eastern body, hence my dad played timbales and finally the entire family the father were musicians. ”
With just ten years began his training in the choir of the House of Culture of Gerona, capital of the Isle of Youth. At just 18 he joined Hermanos Saiz Association in a cultural project of The Isle of Youth was called The Diablitos.
After three long years of military service, without straying too far from the music, because in this period formed a group with friends, he moved to Havana in 1992.
He quickly made contact with the cultural environments of the time, integrating with the new generation of composers, artists, performers, actors and writers who emerged with their own identity in Havana during that time.
He was part of some groups in Cuba but was with Four Cats who participated in the album produced by Gema y Pavel, Hidden Havana.
Recently participated alongside Descemer Good and other humanitarian musicians in a concert to be held in Dominican Republic following the earthquake in Haiti.
To promote the album (Havana Hidden), Kelvis moved to Spain, in July 1996 along with Boris Larramendi, Jose Luis Medina, Pepe del Valle, and Luis Alberto Villalon Andy Barber. He participated in the Festival Bilbao Tropical and other festivals and concerts in theaters. The actions immediately aroused the interest of both the public and the press and even Spanish artists and renowned musicians.
The concrete experience of Habana Abierta, integrated project by Cuban songwriters today and pass the 30 are recognized as belonging to the generation of 13 and 8, but not all passed through there, is the core of a generation and large search obviously breaks.
After two albums Hidden Havana (made in Havana) and Habana Abierta (in Madrid), comes 24 hours which includes among others the theme “When I left Havana” (1999) perhaps the first success in Spain Habana Abierta and the closest to what could be the universal projection of these artists. The author of this issue is that although Kelvis Ochoa belongs to Habana Abierta was never in the rock of 13 and 8.
Kelvis, is the first of this group to make his solo album,-an update of the Cuban national tradition-deep, clever and witty. In this first disc is important to note, that despite being full of traditional Cuban rhythms, fusion ends up by Cuban.
“If you do not want” is the second “single” of this first solo album Kelvis. A cool theme, in which the provocative instrumental base with metal bass and show us the best example of fusion Kelvis Ochoa projected on his album. To this is added, in the key of rap, the sultry voice of Brazilian Fernanda Abreu and Alejo Stivel production, synonymous with quality and assured success.
His second album, has given the opportunity to reunite with her Isla (the recordings were made in studies PM Records, in Havana) and Cuban musicians living in Cuba and beyond. This album maintains bases fusion music now more focused traditional rhythms to live. This time the piano, metals and choruses, acquired a significant importance. This project was created from the freedom that grants you a personal and independent production, in an environment closer to the Cuban way of “download”.
In 2007 airs Love and Music album under the label Egrem, a job in which most of the songs are performed with four hands between Kelvis and Descemer Well, that also includes the participation of musicians such as Carlos Varela, Roberto Carcasses and Polito Ibañez.
Kelvis, during his career, he has worked with musicians such as Lolita, Pastora Soler, Pavel Urquiza, Descemer Well, Roberto Carcasses (Cuban Band Director Interactive), Aedesius Alexander, Haydee Milanes, Yusa, Athanay, Francis (Interactive), Samuel Formell (Los Van Van), Elmer Ferrer, Sam Nan Fong (guitar Lolita, Amparanoia, Habana Abierta, etc..), Ojos de Brujo, Manu Chau, The Puerto Rican group Calle 13, among others.
As the author has written songs for Raimundo Amador, Tommy and Beatriz Marquez, has collaborated on albums by Tino Di Geraldo and productions made by it.
Awarded the 2006 Goya Award for Best Original Score, as co-author of the soundtrack of the film “Habana Blues”. One of the most unique features of Direct Kelvis Ochoa is their special way of projecting the traditional song and especially Cuba-sucu sucu (rhythm native to the Isle of Youth).
Kelvis is a teacher doing live, so traditional rhythms such as Son, the Sucu Sucu, Cha Cha Cha, Macuta, Songo, Conga, Merengue, Milonga and Timba, including with funky influences, Chili-peppers rock and pop, Pop Antillean and internationally.
He has composed for film soundtracks, including:
• “Vampires in Havana” (Juan Padrón, Cuba)
• “Barrio Cuba” (Humberto Solas, Cuba, 2005)
• “Habana Blues” (Benito Zambrano, Spain-Cuba)
• “Heart of Time | Heart of Time” (Alberto Cortes}, Mexico)
• “Lisanka” (Daniel Diaz Torres, 2009).

In 2014 Kelvis released his latest album “Dolor con amor se cura” with Bis Music.