Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 9—Freddy Fender has been inducted into the 2025 Class of the National Recording Registry for his English/Spanish hit "Before ...

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 ...

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 ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. at 143 Freddy Fender Lane in San Benito. Fender, whose real name was Baldemar Garza Huerta, died at age 69 in 2006. He burst onto the national scene with his ...

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 ...

For his family and fans, the opening of the Freddy Fender Museum keeps alive the spirit of one of the Rio Grande Valley’s biggest legends. After years of planning, city officials worked ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week’s guest on Viva Tejano, Congressman Joaquin Castro, grew up on the West Side of San Antonio, in a household steeped in the Chicano movement, with a soundtrack full of tejano music. Freddy ...

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 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He ...