Henry Zimmerle
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About the artist
Henry Zimmerle (born 17 June 1940 in San Antonio, Texas; died 26 November 2019 in San Antonio, aged 79) was an American conjunto singer, songwriter and bajo sexto player, a member of the Tejano Conjunto Hall of Fame who recorded some 101 albums across more than fifty years for Falcon, Tear Drop and Hacienda, and who was known for reproducing bajo sexto lines on electric guitar. He came from a conjunto dynasty that included his father Henry Sr. and his uncle Fred Zimmerle. [Source: Tejano Nation obituary; UCLA Strachwitz Frontera Collection (family)]