Flaco Jiménez, Pioneering Conjunto Accordionist, Dies at 86

Jiménez was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Grammys in 2015 following his final album, 2014’s Flaco Jiménez y Tomas Ortíz de los Alegres de Terán. “You must remember that when my papa played, there weren’t record companies out there willing to expose conjunto music,“ he once said. “They considered it low class, cantina music, Mexican hillbilly music.… It was just among Mexicanos. I would consider myself one of the first ones who started sharing cultures.”