Sep. 27—The San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum celebrates their new Freddy Fender exhibit, which opened to the public on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Benito. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sep. 27—SAN BENITO — For Evangelina Huerta, Freddy Fender's legacy is coming alive in the biggest exhibit immortalizing the hometown legend. Across 5,000 square feet, the San Benito Cultural Heritage ...