SAN ANTONIO – Music by Selena, Freddy Fender, Vicente Fernández, Gloria Estefan, Linda Ronstadt, and others are on the list of songs, sounds, and albums by Latino voices that have been nominated by a ...
Hits by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Vicente Fernández and Freddy Fender added to National Recording Registry
The original Broadway recording of “Hamilton” by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Vicente Fernández’s enduring ranchera song “El Rey” and Freddy Fender’s breakthrough song “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” have ...
A heartfelt country ballad by Freddy Fender climbed to the top of the charts and changed music history on March 14, 1975. His ...
Freddy Fender’s music career had all but expired when he scored his biggest success. That it came with a song that the performer didn’t think was all that special only makes this story even more ...
Tejano swamp-popper Freddy Fender passed away on October 14, 2006. Freddy Fender, the Tejano rocker behind classics like "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" and "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," passed ...
Baldemar Huerta—better known as Freddy Fender—has been a major figure in Texas music since the fifties. First he was a rock and roller in his hometown of San Benito, then a country star, then a singer ...
Ed Note: All this week, to celebrate the release of Dr. Roger Wood and Andy Bradley’s new book House of Hits: The Story of Houston’s Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios and preview this weekend’s ...
Baldemar Huerta made a career of reinvention. As Freddy Fender, he became a pioneering Hispanic pop and country star. Fender died of lung cancer on Saturday at his home in Corpus Christi at age 69.
SAN ANTONIO – Each year since 2000, the Library of Congress has selected influential songs and albums to be preserved in the National Recording Registry. This year, three Latino artists were inducted ...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Freddy Fender is a famous singer and songwriter, and in this week's edition of Mi Gente, 3News Anchor Rudy Trevino got to speak with his daughter, Tammy Lorraine Huerta-Fender, ...
Freddy Fender, a Grammy-winning musician who was one of the first Mexican American artists to successfully cross over to the mainstream pop market and who helped introduce Tex-Mex music to a wider ...
Freddy Fender, the "Bebop Kid" of the Texas-Mexico border who later turned his twangy tenor into the smash country ballad "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," died Saturday. He was 69. Fender, who was ...
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