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Flaco Jimenez, the legendary accordionist from San Antonio who won multiple Grammys and helped expand the popularity of ...
Texas Tejano music icon and San Antonio resident Flaco Jimenez has died at age 86. His family confirmed his passing in a ...
Best known for his song "Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio" ("Ay, I Leave You in San Antonio"), the accordionist also collaborated ...
The San Antonio native took his three-row accordion and gave it modern twists, taking Tex-Mex conjunto music to the national ...
The event, available to the public, will take place Thursday, August 7 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Carver Community Center.
Conjunto, the accordion-driven music born near the Texas-Mexico border, was the Jimenez family business. Starting when he was ...
Sanford Nowlin is editor-in-chief of the San Antonio Current. He holds degrees from Trinity University and the University of Texas at San Antonio, and his reporting has appeared in Texas Highways, ...
Like B. B. King and his guitar, Ray Charles and his piano and Louis Armstrong and his trumpet, Leonard “Flaco” Jimenez became ...
Jimenez’s family announced the death of the 86-year-old multiple Grammy-winning accordionist late Thursday night on social ...
His “final curtain call.” That’s how the family of legendary conjunto artist Flaco Jimenez described his upcoming memorial ...
The conjunto music world is grieving the major loss of a singer, accordionist and San Antonio native known for popular songs ...