Could tejano music have picked a more jovial, warmhearted ambassador? Leonard “Flaco” Jiménez, who died Thursday at the age of 86, was something more than simply a master accordion player and an ...

SAN ANTONIO – Hector Saldaña, the Texas music curator of the Witliff Collections at Texas State University, joined KSAT’s Q&A on Friday to discuss conjunto artist Flaco Jimenez and the legacy he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flaco Jiménez was a global ambassador for conjunto music and played accordion with everyone ...

The Tex-Mex accordion legend’s family announced his death in a July 31 social media post. “He was surrounded by his loved ones and will be missed immensely,” Jiménez’s family wrote. “Thank you to all ...

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 audience in ...