CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — We don't know who you were thinking of last night, but Sunday morning was all about Freddy Fender as we celebrated the Tex-Mex Country icon's legacy on Domingo Live. We were ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 27—The San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum celebrates their new Freddy Fender exhibit, which opened to the public on Thursday ...
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 ...
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 ...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — An outpouring of support for Freddy Fender has the legendary musician and his wife fending off well-intentioned visitors and phone callers to their home after news of his ...
SAN BENITO, Texas — 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 ...
Freddy Fender, 69, 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 Oct. 14 at his home in Corpus ...
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 ...
SAN BENITO, Texas -- 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 ...
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 ...
Freddy Fender, who died Oct. 14 at age 69, enjoyed three distinct musical periods during his recording career. He was the heralded bilingual king of country-pop crossover hits in the mid `70s; the ...