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Freddy fender biography
New museum in San Benito chronicles Freddy Fender's life
Web Posted: 11/23/ PM CST
Elaine Ayala
Express-News Staff Writer
SAN BENITO &#; It is by no means a big-city museum. With only square feet of space in the San Benito Community Center, the new Freddy Fender Museum has to content itself with being a little museum with a big heart.
On Nov.
17, it opened to city leaders, family members and ordinary fans, all paying tribute to the late singer known by many handles, including the Bebop Kid, a Texas Tornado, one of the Super Seven and, in the end, by his given name, Baldemar Huerta.
The museum showcases memorabilia amassed over more than 50 years of his career, most of it drawn from family archives.
Included are two of Fender's gold records (for "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" and "Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), his blue Harley-Davidson and awards such as "Most Promising Male Vocalist" from the Academy of Country Music, which he received in
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