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Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959), [3] better known by his stage name Ritchie Valens, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens died in a plane crash just eight months after his breakthrough. [4]
Dec 16, 2020 · Youngest of all was a rising star of Chicano rock -- Ritchie Valens. He was 17. No one who died in the 1959 plane crash, that day the music died, was an old man.
Ritchie (Lou Diamond Phillips) performs "La Bamba" on stage.#LaBamba #RitchieValens #HDClips #MovieScenes Now on Disc and Digital: https://www.sonypictures.c...
May 9, 2024 · Ritchie Valens was an American singer and songwriter and the first Latino rock and roll star. His short career ended when he died at age 17 in the 1959 plane crash in which Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper also perished.
May 13, 2021 · The Eternal Legacy of Ritchie Valens. On what would have been the Chicano rock legend's 80th birthday, Lou Diamond Phillips, David Hidalgo, and Connie Valens Anderson reflect on why he's still...
Nov 13, 2020 · Ritchie Valens - Deluxe: Greatest Hits - Ritchie Valens. Let's Rock! 27 videos 1,134,575 views Last updated on Nov 13, 2020. Play all.
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Aug 21, 2023 · Twenty-eight years after Valens’s death, a biopic, La Bamba, was made about his life, featuring a soundtrack entirely recorded by Los Lobos, a rock band from East LA. Their cover of “La Bamba”...
Jun 11, 2018 · Born Richard Steven Valenzuela on May 13, 1941, in Pacioma, California; died on February 3, 1959, in Clear Lake, Iowa. Religion: Roman Catholic.
Teenage performers like Ritchie Valens began to influence the course of popular music; his double-sided smash hit ‘Donna’/’La Bamba’ dominated the charts in December 1958. But, unlike rock’n’roll, Ritchie Valens did not survive to face the Sixties.
