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 ...

A South Texas singer beloved by San Antonians now has a song in the Library of Congress. Freddy Fender's "Before the Next Tear Drop Falls" has been selected to be included in the National Recording ...

Freddy Fender, who died Oct. 14 at age 69, enjoyed three distinct musical periods during his recording career. He was the heralded bilingual king of country-pop crossover hits in the mid `70s; the ...

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 -- 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 ...