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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Freddy Fender is a famous singer and songwriter, and in this week's edition of Mi Gente, 3News Anchor Rudy Trevino got to speak with his daughter, Tammy Lorraine Huerta-Fender, ...

More than two decades after his death, his songs are still heard on country radio, in jukeboxes and in the playlists of fans ...

Baldemar Huerta—better known as Freddy Fender—has been a major figure in Texas music since the fifties. First he was a rock and roller in his hometown of San Benito, then a country star, then a singer ...

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 ...

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 ...