Born in 1974.Bulgarian musician/guitar player.Started playing the guitar at age of 14.Studied classical guitar with Stanimir Dikov.During his school years actively performing at national and international guitar contests with very good results. Taking part in various concerts and venues.Later have studied jazz guitar with Alexander Petkov.
Since then has been working as a performer in different formations covering various stiles.His work with agencies as Daniel Agency, Elisa, Romantic etc. and solo contracts takes him to places like Greenland, India, Norway.
Last 10 years Choko Kateliev is based in the Canary Islands where he is working as a musician and Sailing Instructor.
Recently his interest is back to the acoustic fingerstyle guitar.