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 rose and fell with the automobile industry. Before the invention of the motorized, self-propelled auto car, Detroit was a second-tier industrial city with a diverse, largely regional manufacturing base. The thirteenth largest city in the United States in 1900 with 285,000 residents, Detroit was compact.