Kelvis Ochoa is an author-composer-singer born in 1970 in Las Tunas, on The Isla de la Juventud ("Isle of Youth"), situated about 100 kilometers south of the Havana shore (Cuba). He is very popular with young Cubans and famous worldwide for having co-composed the original soundtrack from the movie Habana Blues. He is also part of the Cuban band Habana Abierta.