Artist Biography by Eugene Chadbourne. The Longoria family dynasty in Tex-Mex music begins in the 1920s in a Mississippi cotton field, with no one in the large family of Valerio Longoria Sr. aware that a master musician was growing up in their midst.
Detroit is nicknamed motor city because it has been the center of the American automotive industry for more than a century. Henry Ford located his first assembly line in Detroit. Detroit was the key hub for auto manufacturing for much of the 20th Century.
Detroit, MI. {{::location.tagLine.value.text}}. Sponsored Topics. Detroit, Michigan, is a truly fascinating city: Once called the Paris of the West for its architecture, it became a beacon of the modern industrial age, home to major American automobile manufacturers and a unique musical sound.