Max Baca was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His grandfather was an accordion player as well as his father. At the age of five, Max started learning accordion and by 7 was playing bass in his father’s band.  By twelve, Baca was playing bajo sexto and performing with his brother Jimmy in their own group Los Hermanos Baca. The Band had a regional hit which eventually led to Max joining the Texas Supergroup, The Texas Tornados (which included Doug Sahm, Freddie Fender, Augie Meyers, and Flaco Jiménez). Thanks to his mentor Flaco, Max recorded with The Rolling Stones, met and performed with many of his hero’s and eventually formed his own band, Los Texmaniacs, who have toured around the world and won a Grammy for Tejano album of the year in 2010.