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

Over a career that spanned 70 years, Jimenez' playing came to define Tex-Mex music and carried the tradition-drenched ...

SAN ANTONIO — Flaco Jimenez, a six-time Grammy winner who took his conjunto accordion musicianship to the national and worldwide stages with countless superstar musicians and bands, has died, his ...

Conjunto, the South Texas music style blending Mexican folk and European polka influences, was in Jimenez's blood. According to the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin, the ...

HOUSTON — 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 ...

Leonardo “Flaco” Jimenez, the Grammy-winning accordionist and pioneer of conjunto music, has died. He was 86. Jimenez’s family shared the news on Facebook Thursday night, writing, “He was ...

Flaco Jiménez, the San Antonio-born accordionist whose music has been a hallmark of Tex-Mex, Tejano and conjunto music for seven decades, died Thursday, according to a statement from his family ...

The originator of the Tejano Conjunto Festival, Juan Tejeda, noted that the list of those who have won Grammys includes Jiménez, and notes that the number of Grammys says a lot about his talent. “He's ...

Esteban "Steve" Jordan, 71, the innovative Tejano accordionist who broadened the range and repertoire of conjunto music in the 1970s and influenced such performers as Los Lobos and Brave Combo ...

Why and how did the music—conjunto—get so big and, like, adopted in Japan? Linda Escobar: Well, like I was saying, Kenji, he went to a concert where Flaco Jiménez was playing.

For Noah, contributing to the Conjunto music lineage is a family affair. His mother, Lisa, learned how to play the bajo sexto—motivated as much by the music as by sharing in her son's passion.

Two art installations paying tribute to the musical legacy of Tejano and Conjunto music debuted in San Antonio on Tuesday.