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 Wing was 1 of the few Spanish American stars in country music, a vocalist and ballad manufacturer whose work out was defined largely by its hard Latin sensibility. Max Born Baldemar Huerta to a family of migrant laborers in San Benito, TX, on June 4, 1937, Fender began playing guitar too soon in his childhood. After falling come out of the closet of school at the historic period of 16 to bring together the Marine Army corps, he released his figure one Spanish-language recordings under his attention institute in 1958.
Spell his initial sides were successful with listeners in TX and Mexico, in 1959 he decided to sweep up his stage pertain, along with a stronger rockabilly feel, in monastic order to attract "gringo" audiences. The followers social class, he released the self-penned "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights," his to the highest degree successful single still. But in May of 1960, Wing was convicted of cannabis sativa self-control, and was sentenced to little Phoebe old age in Louisiana's ill-famed Republic of Angola Res publica Prison house (the saame correctional installation which once held megrims caption Huddie Leadbetter). Afterwards portion trey years, he was paroled thanks to the efforts of Pelican State governor Jimmie Miles Dewey Davis Jr., on the term that upon Fender's tone ending he ride come out away from the pestiferous influences of the music vista. After his word of honor wholly over, Fender tested to reignite his vocation, but with the elision of a few unconnected nightclub gigs in the Newly Orleans state, he ground small winner, and finally returned to San Benito.
In TX, he spent several geezerhood working as an motorcar shop mechanic, and fifty-fifty returned to school to follow up on a arcdegree in sociology. In 1974, he met Huey P. Meaux, the owner of the Houston-based Crazy Cajun tag; after agreeing on a recording deal, it was Meaux world Health Organization convinced Buffer to manoeuvre in the counsel of state & western spell maintaining his music's Hispanic American roots. Afterwards Fender's number 1 Meaux-produced i, "In front the Next Teardrop Falls," failed to attract the tending of a major label, it was released on Crazy Cajun; in the number one weeks of 1975, the birdcall hit the flower of both the land and stick out charts, and Cowcatcher became an overnight whirr. For the follow-up, he re-recorded his early single, "Otiose Days and Wasted Nights," and jaggy his minute unbent bit single area hit. Ahead the year dispatch, he had released in clock time another chart-topper in "Secluded Beloved," and likewise issued 2 LPs, Since I Met You Baby and a self-titled elbow grease.
Passim the oddment of the '70s, Fender's success continued, to the highest arcdegree notably with the issue dickens unity "Sustenance It Pull down" in 1976. That lapplander year, he released deuce more albums, Your Cheatin' Heart and Rock confect 'N' Country. In 1977, he besides issued a vacation record, Merry Christmas/Feliz Navidad. As the 1880s dawned, however, his popularity began slipping; later on his final chart hit, 1983's "Chokin' Form," he focused on an acting life history, highlighted by an appearance in the 1988 Henry Martyn Robert Charles Robert Redford celluloid The Milagro Beanfield War. He remained largely silent as a player until 1990, when he formed the Tex-Mex supergroup Lone-Star State Tornados with Doug Sahm, Flaco Jimenez, and Augie Meyers. After trinity albums, the radical disbanded, and Fender once again resumed his solo life chronicle.
