Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flaco Jiménez accepts the Lifetime Achievement for Instrumentalist Award in 2014 during the Americana Music Honors and Awards show ...

The master of the Tex-Mex accordion Leonardo "Flaco" Jimenez, whose tradition-drenched sound came to define conjunto or Tejano music of South Texas, has died. Throughout a career that spanned more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 1 (UPI) --Texas conjunto music pioneer Flaco Jimenez, 86, died while surrounded by his family at one of his son's homes on ...

LOS ANGELES — The accordionist commands the stage, his eyes staring off as if in a trance, his fingers trilling out the opening notes of a tune. It's a long, sinuous riff, one so intoxicating that the ...

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 ...

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 ...