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Flaco Jiménez accepts the Lifetime Achievement for Instrumentalist Award in 2014 during the Americana Music Honors and Awards show in Nashville. (Mark Zaleski / Associated Press) The accordionist ...

Famed Tejano singer-songwriter and master accordionist Leonardo “Flaco” Jiménez has died. He was 86. Jiménez’s family shared the news of the musician’s death on his official Facebook page Thursday ...

The accordion playing of Flaco Jimenez, seen here performing during the 2014 Americana Music Association Honors and Awards Show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., came to define contujo and ...

Raphael lives in Nashville, as did Malo. “There is no Tex-Mex scene here in Nashville,” he said. “Raul liked to meld different influences. He could go from Tex-Mex, norteño to the Memphis sound.” Malo ...

SAN ANTONIO - Flaco Jiménez, the beloved San Antonio-born accordionist whose sound defined generations of Tex-Mex, Tejano, and conjunto music, has died. He was 86. He was surrounded by family in his ...

‘My whole brand as an artist is about being a Mexican American kid from San Antonio and what that means and what it means to fall in love with that identity,’ Leo said. ‘My whole brand as an artist is ...

Flaco Jimenez, the legendary accordionist from San Antonio who won multiple Grammys and helped expand the popularity of conjunto, Tejano, and Tex-Mex music, died Thursday. He was 86. Jimenez’s death ...

Over a career that spanned 70 years, Jimenez' playing came to define Tex-Mex music and carried the tradition-drenched conjunto sound all over the... The master of the Tex-Mex accordion Leonardo "Flaco ...