Wasted days and wasted nights free#

The first book explores Freddy’s struggles as he achieves the great American dream.

Tammy Lorraine Huerta Fender has divided her father’s autobiography into two books. His voice and charismatic personality also made him a nationwide television celebrity in the ‘70s and ‘80s. He was given a Country Music Association award for “Single of the Year” and an Academy of Country Music award for “Most Promising Male Artist” in 1975. 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.” 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.”

Wasted days and wasted nights free#

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” takes the reader on a journey that covers Freddy’s early life of brutal poverty as a child migrant worker, his years as a U.S.