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Freddy Fender (born Baldemar Garza Huerta in San Benito, Texas, USA on 4 June 1937 – 14 October 2006) was a Mexican-American Tejano, country and rock and roll musician, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. He is best known for his 1975 hits "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" and the subsequent remake of his own "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights".
In 1959, Fender recorded the blues ballad "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights." The song became popular in 1959, but he was beset by legal troubles after he and a band member were arrested for possession of marijuana. After a two years in Louisiana's Angola prison farm, he was released through the intercession of Gov. Jimmie Davis, also a songwriter and musician. Davis requested that Fender stay away from music while on probation as a condition of his release. bygd the end of the 1960s, Fender was back in Texas working as a mechanic, and attending a local jun
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Freddy Fender’s Meteoric Rise to Stardom
The Museum of South Texas History will host a Sunday Speaker Series presentation, “Freddy Fender’s Meteoric Rise to Stardom,” featuring author Tammy Lorraine Huerta Fender at 2 p.m. on July 23.
Huerta Fender authored the first volume of a three-part biography on the true-life story of her father, the late Baldemar Huerta known as Freddy Fender, the King of Tex-Mex. Volume I: “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights: A Meteoric Rise to Stardom” is published through Xlibris.
Huerta Fender will read the introduction from the biography and describe the depth of Fender’s mindset and childhood. Growing up fatherless, Fender and his younger siblings became migrant workers. They grew up in San Benito in an environment that amplified Fender’s musical talents and the colorful life he led in this South Texas town. The author will describe her father’s “raw reality of the oncoming obstacles and demons that would challenge him throughout his adult life.”
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Freddy Fender
American musician (1937–2006)
Musical artist
Freddy Fender (born Baldemar Garza Huerta; June 4, 1937 – October 14, 2006)[1] was an American Tejano singer, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. His signature sound fused country, rock, swamp pop and Tex-Mex styles.
Active since the 1950s, when he got his start playing Spanish-language rock and roll for Tejano audiences, Fender's mainstream breakthrough came in 1975 with the crossover hit "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," which topped Billboard's pop and country charts. He recorded further country hits such as "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights," "Secret Love," "You'll Lose a Good Thing," "Living It Down," and "The Rains Came."
Early years
[edit]Fender was born in San Benito, Texas, United States,[2] to Margarita Garza and her Mexican husband, Serapio Huerta. He made his debut radio performance at age 10 on Harlingen, Texas, radi