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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apr. 9—Freddy Fender has been inducted into the 2025 Class of the National Recording Registry for his English/Spanish hit "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," which shot to the top of Billboard's pop and ...