Artist: Freddy Fender
Genre(s):
Country
Rock
Reggae
Other
Discography:
Unforgettable Classics
Year: 2006
Tracks: 19
Uforglemmelige Klassikere
Year: 2006
Tracks: 19
The Great Freddy Fender
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Baldemar Huerta: El Rey Del Tex - Mex
Year: 2004
Tracks: 20
Freddy Fender was one of the few Hispanic stars in country music, a vocaliser and ballad maker whose lick was defined largely by its hard Latin sensibility. Born Baldemar Huerta to a family of migrant laborers in San Benito, TX, on June 4, 1937, Fender began playing guitar early in his childhood. After falling out of school at the age of 16 to join the Marine Corps, he released his number one Spanish-language recordings under his tending constitute in 1958.
Patch his initial sides were successful with listeners in Texas and Mexico, in 1959 he decided to adopt his stage refer, along with a stronger rockabilly feel, in order to attract "gringo" audiences. The following class, he released the self-penned "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights," his to the highest degree successful single still. But in May of 1960, Fender was convicted of cannabis sativa possession, and was sentenced to little Phoebe years in Louisiana's ill-famed Angola State Prison (the same correctional installation which once held vapors legend Leadbelly). After helping trey eld, he was paroled thanks to the efforts of Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis, on the term that upon Fender's release he ride out away from the pestiferous influences of the music scene. After his parole all over, Fender tested to reignite his vocation, merely with the exception of a few unconnected nightspot gigs in the New Orleans country, he ground small success, and finally returned to San Benito.
In Texas, he spent several eld working as an auto mechanic, and fifty-fifty returned to school to pursue a arcdegree in sociology. In 1974, he met Huey P. Meaux, the proprietor of the Houston-based Crazy Cajun tag; after agreeing on a recording deal, it was Meaux wHO convinced Fender to manoeuvre in the direction of country & western spell maintaining his music's Hispanic roots. After Fender's number one Meaux-produced single, "In front the Next Teardrop Falls," failed to attract the attention of a major label, it was released on Crazy Cajun; in the number one weeks of 1975, the birdcall hit the peak of both the country and protrude charts, and Fender became an overnight whizz. For the follow-up, he re-recorded his early single, "Otiose Days and Wasted Nights," and jaggy his minute unbent routine one country hit. Before the year complete, he had released in time another chart-topper in "Secluded Love," and also issued deuce LPs, Since I Met You Baby and a self-titled exertion.
Passim the oddment of the '70s, Fender's success continued, to the highest degree notably with the number deuce single "Living It Down" in 1976. That same year, he released two more albums, Your Cheatin' Heart and Rock candy 'N' Country. In 1977, he also issued a holiday record, Merry Christmas/Feliz Navidad. As the eighties dawned, however, his popularity began slipping; after his final chart hit, 1983's "Chokin' Kind," he focused on an acting life history, highlighted by an appearance in the 1988 Robert Redford film The Milagro Beanfield War. He remained largely silent as a musician until 1990, when he formed the Tex-Mex supergroup Texas Tornados with Doug Sahm, Flaco Jimenez, and Augie Meyers. After trey albums, the group disbanded, and Fender again resumed his solo life history.
