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 original Texas Tornados were a musical force of nature. The band was fronted by four storied South Texas talents: Doug Sahm, Freddy Fender, Flaco Jimenez and Augie Meyers, each a bandleader with ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Apr. 9—SAN BENITO — Capping years of work, the San Benito Historical Society is placing a state historical marker at hometown hero Freddy Fender's family home, honoring the Grammy Award-winning singer ...