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Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez (born March 11, 1939) [1] is an American singer, songwriter and accordionist from San Antonio, Texas. He is known for playing Norteño, Tex Mex and Tejano music. Jiménez has been a solo performer and session musician, as well as a member of the Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven. [2]
Flaco Jimenez: When I went into the studio--for any of my recording sessions--for every song, I improvise the melody. I don’t read music. I put the accordion [track] down as the song is done. I never write notes for it. I do it by ear. I improvise, I listen to the song and then I know exactly what to put in there.
Leonardo „Flaco“ Jiménez (* 11. März 1939 in San Antonio, Texas) ist ein US-amerikanischer Tex-Mex -Musiker und Akkordeonist mexikanischer Abstammung. Er ist der wohl bekannteste Akkordeonist des Tex-Mex. Sein Vater Don Santiago Jiménez Sr. (1913–1984) war – ebenfalls am Akkordeon – einer der Pioniere der Conjunto -Musik.
Flaco Jimenez Flaco Jimenez is finally making home grown Texas "conjunto music" reach the ears, souls, and dancing feet of fans around the globe as well as in his home state of Texas. Conjunto music means duet singing with accordion, bajo sexto (a heavy 12 string guitar), bass, and drums. Mex
FLACO JIMENEZ "Flaco 's First" uring the mid-1950s San D Antonio's Mexican American community was in transition. It was a cultural and economic boom pe riod with servicemen from all over the country stationed at Lackland and other Air Force bases. The service industry connected with the military had become a major employer. Job opportunities
Flaco has toured Europe again with Peter Rowan but in 1985 he went overseas successfully with his own conjunto for promoter David Hatfield, who has already scheduled another tour for 1986 with ap pearances at many of Europe's most popular folk festivals and dance halls. Flaco Jimenez has enjoyed playing in varied musical
28. Apr. 2014 · This widespread artistic acknowledgement was largely stimulated by the participation of Flaco Jiménez on Ry Cooder’s Chicken Skin Music in 1976, drawing certain superficial parallels with the following world music movement through the underlying suggestion of inequitable cultural appropriation.
