San Benito, Texas — a late music legend Freddie Fender Next April, he will be awarded the Texas State Historic Marker in his hometown of San Benito, Texas.
The San Benito Historical Society and Museum announced an event to unveil a Texas marker in honor of Fender. The event will take place on Saturday, April 15th at 10am at his 143 Freddy Fender Lane in San Benito, Texas.
Fender is a Mexican-American singer who broke out of poverty, picked cotton, and started playing the guitar. In his youth, in 1956, he was the first person to record and sing Spanish rock and roll. He was known as “Mexican Elvis” and called “The El Bebop Kid”. In the mid-1970s, Fender rose to rock’n’roll country megastar literally overnight with his first two monster hits, “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” and “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights.” .
In a blink of an eye his record billboard In 1975, he won the Country Music Association Award for “Single of the Year” and the Academy of Country Music Award for “Most Promising Male Artist”. And his charismatic personality also made him a national television celebrity in the ’70s and his ’80s.
Fender died of lung cancer in 2006 at the age of 69. His contributions to music have been recognized worldwide and have been nominated for many honors and Grammy Awards.
In 2005, a $1.4 million water tower was dedicated to the musical legend of San Benito. The tower displays an image of Fender with the words “San Benito his Freddie his Fender hometown”. Freddie Fender Museum and Conjunto Music Museum opened his November 17, 2007 in San Benito. They share a building with the San Benito Historical Museum. His family maintains the Freddy Fender Scholarship Fund and donates to Fender-supported charities.
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