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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apr. 9—Freddy Fender has been inducted into the 2025 Class of the National Recording Registry for his English/Spanish hit "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," which shot to the top of Billboard's pop and ...

This clip is a shout-out to Freddy Fender, who died yesterday of lung cancer. A Texas legend, Freddy packed a lot of road into sixty-nine years — a Tex-Mex journeyman in the Fifties, stabbed in the ...

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 ...

Singer Freddy Fender appeared with the Texas Tornados at the State Fair of Texas in 1992. Fender will be celebrated next month at a Texas State Historical Marker ceremony in his birthplace, San Benito ...

One of the many old sayings we've all heard from our childhoods "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. And I suppose that's as true today as back then and that old saying certainly seemed to ...

A South Texas singer has petitioned for country singer-songwriter Freddy Fender's induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Veronique Medrano, a Tejano country solo artist, launched the petition ...

Freddy Fender is at the center of an effort to get more Latino representation in the Country Music Hall of Fame. The "Wasted Days, Wasted Nights" and "Before The Next Teardrop Falls" singer from San ...

Playing gringo music for gringos in the 1950s just didn't go well with a name like Baldemar Huerta, so along came "Freddy Fender." "I got Fender off the guitar, and Freddy was a catchy name," he ...

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 ...