Flaco Jimenez, the legendary accordionist from San Antonio who won multiple Grammys and helped expand the popularity of ...

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.' ...

Later in life, Jiménez was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship, a National Medal of Arts, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.