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 ...

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 — 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 ...

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 ...

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 BENITO, Texas (AP) -- 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 ...