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.
For other uses, see Motor City (disambiguation) and Detroit City (disambiguation). Detroit (/dáµ»ËtrÉÉªt/) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the fourth-largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United StatesâCanada border. It is the seat of Wayne County, the most populous county in the state.