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Flaco Jimenez, Texas accordionist who expanded popularity of conjunto and Tejano music, dies at 86
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. Jimenez’s death was announced Thursday evening by his family on social media.
Music has been my life ever since I grabbed the accordion,' he told Texas Monthly a couple of years back. 'I can talk to my accordion ... I can make it happy or make it cry.' ...
Others at the Apollo Maennerchor Club in Sharon quickly joined in playing their instruments. Friday was the start of the weekend-long National Button Accordion Festival at the Maennerchor Club.
The right side of an accordion has a button or piano keyboard, while the left side has buttons that play bass notes and chords. Each button or key controls a different reed inside the ...
Judy Tenuta, Accordion-Playing ‘Love Goddess’ of Comedy, Dies at 72 She cracked comedy’s top ranks with a memorably outlandish act in the 1980s, when the stand-up scene was largely male.
Accordion music brings her back to those days when her husband persuaded her to play hooky from her job as a teacher. She’d hop onto his motorcycle with his button box—a style of accordion ...
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