Name Santiago Jr. Role Musician | Siblings Flaco Jimenez | |
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Albums El Mero, Mero De San Antonio, Purely Instrumental Nominations Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album Similar People Flaco Jimenez, Don Santiago Jimenez, Carl Finch | ||
Parents Don Santiago Jimenez, Sr. | ||
Santiago Jimenez Jr. y Su Conjunto @ 22nd Annual NMCAC Conjunto Festival 2013
Santiago Jiménez, Jr. (aka Santiago Henriquez Jiménez) (born April 8, 1944) is a folk musician who has won a National Heritage Fellowship in 2000 for lifetime achievement in traditional Tex-Mex/folk music. His father, Santiago Jiménez Sr. was a pioneer of conjunto music. His older brother Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez is considered by many the greatest Tejano accordionist ever, certainly the most famous. Santiago's style is more traditional than that of his brother Flaco, who is noted for mixing his music with many styles outside the Tejano mainstream.
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Santiago performed at the 2006 National Folk Festival in Richmond, Virginia. In 2011 he performed at the 50th Anniversary Concert for Arhoolie Records, held in Berkeley, California. Portions of that performance appeared in the July-4th-Weekend, 2011 edition of the public radio program American Routes. President Obama awarded Santiago a 2015 National Medal of Arts on September 22, 2016 for his contribution to American music.
Songs
Viva seguinViva Seguin · 1995
Cada Vez Que Cae la Tarde1996
ChiquititaEl Corrido De Esequiel Hernendez · 2011