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Freddy Fender (born Baldemar Garza Huerta in San Benito, Texas, USA on 4 June 1937 – 14 October 2006) was a Mexican-American Tejano, country and rock and roll musician, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. He is best known for his 1975 hits "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" and the subsequent remake of his own "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights". In 1959, Fender recorded the blues ballad "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights." The song became popular in 1959, but he was beset by legal troubles after he...

A distinguished musician, Freddy Torrealba is one of the world's premier virtuosos on the charango. Born in Santiago, Chile in 1966. In 1979 he joins "Casa Kamarundi", a centre of cultural resistance against the Pinochet dictatorship. In 1980 he begins his musical studies at the Experimental Artistic School of La Reina, where he defined his love for folkloric music. He completes his studies in guitar and begins learning charango. Since then, he and his beloved charango have been inseparable. In November of 1992, the renowned Cuban singer-composer Silvio Rodriguez, after watching one of his performances, was so impressed that he...

Fred Brathwaite (born 1960), more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American Hip hop historian, Hip hop pioneer and former graffiti artist. He was active in New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s. He is credited with helping to broaden the exposure of Hip-hop beyond The Bronx. In late-1980, Freddy was cast along with fellow Lower East Side graffiti writer Lee Quinones in Glen O'Brien's film Downtown 81 (1981). That film showcased artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in his Lower Manhattan environment and the music that surrounded it. Shortly after, Freddy began production along with filmmaker Charlie Ahearn...

Daddy Freddy (born September 3, 1965 in Kingston, Jamaica as Frederic Nelson) is a Jamaican Deejay. He grew up in Trenchtown... He was extremely popular in London during the mid 80's and performed alongside UK artists such as Asher Senator. .