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 ...

This No. 1 hit for Freddy Fender is a unique entry on the Top 100 Country Songs list, as it's the only one that's bilingual. Fender was far from the first to record it, but audiences loved the way he ...

SAN ANTONIO – Each year since 2000, the Library of Congress has selected influential songs and albums to be preserved in the National Recording Registry. This year, three Latino artists were inducted ...

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 ...

The kid could play, but it was the voice that got you, not the guitar. He could bend it as if his throat were a saxophone, a sweet warble one note, a deep bellow the next. Born Baldemar Huerta in San ...