That you walked out on our relationship and abandoned me? When you are responsible for causing me sadness and depression.ĭo you not recall the day when you left me heartbroken and alone? Why should I even bother calling out your name when you are the one to blame for all the hurt I feel? When I know that you are not honest and trustworthy in our relationship? Why should I continue to love you when I know that you are unfaithful? I realize that you never truly belonged to me, you were always someone else's.Įven though we were together, your heart was always with someone else. I have moved on from our relationship and left it all behind for you. And readers will see that his daughter Tammy has done just that, conveying in honest prose the tale of a child migrant worker with a passion for music who picked cotton, a three-string guitar and achieved the great American Dream.I spent many days and nights on you, but they were all worthless and futile in the end. The author states that in writing a frank, realistic book that tells the true story of her father’s life, she is honoring her father’s last wish Freddy wanted an authentic, uncompromising book to be written about his life. The story of Freddy’s ultimate healing and hard-won sobriety is a searing story of faith and redemption. The sequel delves into the darkness of the addictions that ravaged his and his family’s lives, forcing Freddy to the realization that he needed a divine intervention. The first book explores his struggles as he achieves the great American dream. The author has divided her father’s biography into two books. He was given a Country Music Association award for “Single of the Year” and an Academy of Country Music award as “Most Promising Artist of 1975.” His voice and charismatic personality also made him a nationwide television celebrity in the ‘70s and ‘80s. In the mid 1970s, Fender would become famous literally overnight as a rock ‘n’ country megastar with his first two monster hits “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” and “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights.” Instantaneously, his records crossed over the Billboard country charts into the rock and pop charts, each rising to No. In his youth, in 1956, he was the first to record and sing Spanish rock and roll he was known as the “Mexican Elvis” and called “El Bebop Kid.” Freddy Fender was known to millions of people across the world as “an ordinary man who had extraordinary God-given talents.”įreddy was a Mexican-American singer who rose from the depths of poverty, breaking free from a life spent picking cotton and rising to a life spent picking guitar. marine, the shocking arrest and imprisonment of his early 20s, his barrier-breaking singing career as he exploded into and crossed over different music genres, and the alcohol and drug addiction from which he suffered.ĭuring his last 21 years of sobriety, Freddy sought spiritual redemption, practiced forgiveness and made amends in his daily life he came to lead by example with the aid of his higher power Jesus Christ. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights is a book of many dimensions, and covers Freddy’s early life of brutal poverty as a migrant worker, his years as a U.S. The author brings to life the heartfelt memories of a man and family caught in the whirlwind of great fame, and conveys in a compassionate yet forthright manner the shattering addictions that accompanied this fame. Her book Wasted Days and Wasted Nights: A Meteoric Rise to Stardom (published by Xlibris) expresses in intimate detail his rise to success, heartbreaking fall and final redemption. HOUSTON – Author Tammy Lorraine Huerta Fender has written the true-life story of her father, the late superstar Baldemar Huerta, also known as Freddy Fender, The King of Tex-Mex. Tammy Lorraine Huerta Fender immortalizes her late, legendary father in new, only biography.
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