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May 18, 2018 · Baldemar Huerta, known as Freddy Fender, was in his day, a Mexican-American Elvis. Twelve years after his death from lung cancer, his daughter, Tammy Fender, has published the first of two biographies about her father. The title of the book borrows from the name of a song a lot of Americans of a certain age can sing by heart – “ Wasted Days ...
Oct 15, 2006 · Three-time Grammy-winning country musician Freddy Fender, best known for his ’70s country hit “Before the Next Teardrop Falls,” died at noon Saturday at his Corpus Christi home with his ...
Oct 14, 2023 · Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. In April of 2023, the State of Texas put Freddy Fender's legacy into focus by honoring the icon with a historical marker at his family home in San Benito, Texas ...
Oct 15, 2006 · Always a performer, he sang on the radio as a boy and won contests for his singing, including one prize that consisted of a tub full of about $10 worth of food.
Oct 15, 2006 · 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 sang on the radio ...
Oct 14, 2006 · Freddy Fender (born Baldemar Garza Huerta in San Benito, Texas, USA on 4 June 1937 – 14 October 2006) was a Mexican-American Tejano, country and rock and roll musician, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados.
He signed with Imperial Records in 1959, renaming himself "Fender" after the brand of his electric guitar, "Freddy" because it sounded good with Fender. Fender initially recorded "Wasted Days" in ...
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