“We have our roots music,” she added, “but then we branch out to other things, pick up different styles. “We have our feet in different worlds and different cultures,” Ms. Fender illustrated the diversity of Mexican-American and Latino musicians. He rereleased “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights,” and it also climbed to the top of the charts.Ĭristina Balli, a spokeswoman for the Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center in San Benito, said Mr. With its success, he won the Academy of Country Music’s best new artist award in 1975. He once said he sang in bars so dingy he performed with his eyes shut, “dreaming I was on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show.’ ”īut his second break came when he was persuaded to record “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” on an independent label in 1974 and it was picked up by a major label. But his career was put on hold shortly after that when he and his bass player ended up spending almost three years in prison in Angola, La., for marijuana possession.Īfter prison came a few years in New Orleans, and then an everyday life taking college classes, working as a mechanic and playing an occasional local gig. Fender initially recorded “Wasted Days” in 1960. He signed with Imperial Records in 1959, renaming himself Fender after the brand of his electric guitar and choosing Freddy because it sounded good with Fender.
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Always a performer, he sang on the radio as a boy and won contests for his singing, including one prize that consisted of a tub full of about $10 worth of food.īut his career really began in the late 50’s, when he returned from serving in the Marines and recorded Spanish-language versions of Elvis Presley’s “Don’t Be Cruel” and Harry Belafonte’s “Jamaica Farewell.” The recordings were hits in Mexico and South America.
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