Leonardo 'Flaco' Jiménez, legendary Mexican American accordion player and singer-songwriter who expanded the reach and ...

Flaco Jimenez, the legendary accordionist from San Antonio who won multiple Grammys and helped expand the popularity of ...

Tejano and conjunto music legend Flaco Jiménez has died at age 86. The six-time Grammy winner was recognized as a pioneer in ...

The San Antonio native took his three-row accordion and gave it modern twists, taking Tex-Mex conjunto music to the national ...

The death of Flaco Jiménez has drawn tributes from across the music world, as fans and artists honor the Grammy-winning ...

“One way to look at it: Leonardo ‘Flaco’ Jimenez is our ‘Satchmo,’ the Alamo City’s Louis Armstrong,” Hector Saldaña wrote in ...

Born into a family of conjunto pioneers, Flaco Jimenez took his Hohner three-row button accordion from San Antonio to the ...

Flaco Jiménez learned to play the accordion at a very young age. He passed away on Thursday at his home surrounded by family.

Born into a well-known conjunto family in San Antonio on March 11, 1939, Leonardo “Flaco” Jiménez began playing conjunto ...

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 world and across genres.

Over the course of his seven-decade career, Jiménez received numerous awards and honors, including a Lifetime Achievement ...