Jiménez is a San Antonio native and has won five Grammy Awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, an NEA National Heritage Fellowship and accolades from Billboard, Americana and Tejano music ...

The accordion is used in many forms of music popular in Texas and Mexico including tejano, conjunto and norteno. German immigrants brought the instrument to the region in the 1800's, and it was ...

A Mexican American musician who helped bring Tejano-style music to Michigan is being celebrated ... a Mexican twelve-string guitar, and the accordion. Despite never releasing any recordings ...