Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 16—SAN BENITO — For his family and fans, the opening of the Freddy Fender Museum keeps alive the spirit of one of the Rio ...

When the Mavericks began discussing cover songs to record for their next album, the group decided Freddy Fender's "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" was a must. The band covered the late singer's song… ...

Some songs were simply meant to be covers, with country and Tejano singer Freddy Fender bringing life back into his music career thanks to a track from 1967. Ben Peters and Vivian Keith co-wrote ...

Freddy Fender’s music career had all but expired when he scored his biggest success. That it came with a song that the performer didn’t think was all that special only makes this story even more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 9—SAN BENITO — Capping years of work, the San Benito Historical Society is placing a state historical marker at hometown hero ...

The original Broadway recording of “Hamilton” by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Vicente Fernández’s enduring ranchera song “El Rey” and Freddy Fender’s breakthrough song “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” have ...

Ella Langley gave a classic country song a new life, more than five decades after Freddy Fender made it a major hit. The Alabama country star recently shared a stripped-down acoustic cover of Fender’s ...

Musician Freddy Fender has incurable cancer, discovered after tumors were found on his lungs, and his wife said they are "hoping for a miracle." By Billboard Staff Musician Freddy Fender has incurable ...

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 ...

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 ...

This clip is a shout-out to Freddy Fender, who died yesterday of lung cancer. A Texas legend, Freddy packed a lot of road into sixty-nine years — a Tex-Mex journeyman in the Fifties, stabbed in the ...

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 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He ...