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A maverick territory artist, Freddy Fender, the King of Tex-Mex, is the only Hispanic entertainer to win both Academy of Nation Music and Land Music Association awards, and two Grammy Awards collectively. Born Baldermar Huerta on June 4, in San Benito, a South Texas border town, he grew up in abject poverty, a migrant farm worker alongside his parents. He dropped out of high school and joined the Marines at 16, but too often landed in the brig and was discharged. In the after time s, he was back in San Benito, billing himself as ‘El Be Bop Kid’ playing rockabilly in local honky-tonks and boogie halls. By his records, sung entirely in Spanish, were doing well in Texas and Mexico. Gradually he turned to the more commercial fields of rock’n’roll and nation. A Spanish version of Elvis’ Don’t Be Cruel, went to number one in Latin America. A local club owner, Wayne Duncan formed Duncan Records, and using the name Freddy Fender (Fender came from the neck of his guitar), he scored a local pop hit with the self-penned Wasted Days And Wasted Nights in That year he was arrested
&#;Wasted Days and Wasted Nights: A Meteoric Rise to Stardom&#; written by Tammy Lorraine Huerta Fender tells the true-life story of her famous father, the late Baldemar Huerta, also known as Freddy Fender – The King of Tex-Mex. As only seen through the eyes of Freddy’s daughter, her book expresses in intimate detail his rise to success, heartbreaking fall, and final redemption bringing to life the heartfelt memories of a man and family caught in the whirlwind of great fame and conveys in a compassionate yet forthright manner the shattering addictions that accompanied this fame.
&#;Wasted Days and Wasted Nights&#; takes the reader on a journey that covers Freddy’s early existence of brutal poverty as a child migrant worker, his years as a U.S. Marine, the shocking arrest and imprisonment of his early 20s, his barrier-breaking singing career as he exploded into and crossed over different song genres, and the alcohol and drug addiction from which he suffered.
During his last 21 years of sobriety, Freddy sought spiritual redemption, practiced forgiveness, and made amends in hi
TEXANA READS: Freddy Fender's daughter suggestions 'brutally honest' look into singer's life
We’ve all heard it.
Freddy Fender wrote the lyrics to his famous song “Wasted Days and Wasted Night” while he was in prison in Louisiana. Of course, the catchy rhythm and blues ballad with the soulful voice of Fender’s country and Tex-Mex twang could not own been imagined anywhere else except after suffering inside the walls of a depressing “correction” facility.
Not true.
Freddy Fender, a.k.a. Baldemar Huerta from San Benito in the Rio Grande Valley, wrote it for his wife, Evangelina (Eva), who was about to quit him because of his raucous and dangerous lifestyle caused by his pursuit of a melody career. She stayed with him.
You can learn this and other secrets as you read the brutally honest “biography” of Fender written by his daughter, Tammy Lorraine Huerta Fender. Along the way you will discover Fender’s and the Huerta family’s close ties to Corpus Christi and marvel at the survival instincts of both Fender and his family.
Whatever Happened To Freddy Fender?
was a great year in Country Music. But it was a spectacular year for an painter named Freddy Fender.
I was just wrapping up my first full year in the radio business when a song came out called 'Before The Next Teardrop Falls'. It didn't sound like anything else on country radio at the time. The voice? Unique and a matchless fit for the song. The artist was a guy named Freddy Fender. I didn't really comprehend much about him at the timebut that would change.
The song not only captured the hearts and minds of Country Song listeners but also topped the Rock/Pop charts as well. This smash-hit went on to sell successfully over a million copies and was a worldwide hit. But would this guy, this Freddy Fender, be one of the one-hit wonders, a flash in the pan?
Uh, adv, that question was answered very quickly. His track up single, 'Wasted Days And Wasted Nights', went right to the superior of the Country Song chart, as well as becoming a Top Ten hit on the Rock/Pop charts. It