A heartfelt country ballad by Freddy Fender climbed to the top of the charts and changed music history on March 14, 1975. His ...

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.

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 ...

Has there ever been a more Houston-sounding music than that of Freddy Fender? Think about it. Songs like “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights” and “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” were pan-Gulf Coastal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The kid could play, but it was the voice that got you, not the guitar. He could bend it as if his throat were a saxophone, a sweet warble one note, a deep bellow the next. Born Baldemar Huerta in 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 ...