Flaco Jimenez, a six-time Grammy winner who took his conjunto accordion musicianship to the national and worldwide stages with countless superstar musicians and bands, has died, his family announced. He was 86.

The San Antonio music gem , whose first name is Leonardo but who was better known by his nickname, Flaco (which means Skinny), continued the music tradition handed down by his father and shared with his siblings. He built a legacy that honored the Texas-Mexican music tradition centered on the trills of his three-row accordion and gave it modern twists.

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"It is with great sadness that we share tonight the loss of our father, Flaco Jimenez," his family said in a social media post Thursday. "He was surround

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