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Dec 16, 2020 · No one who died in the 1959 plane crash, that day the music died, was an old man. The pilot himself, Roger Peterson, was just 21. Buddy Holly was 22; J.P. Richardson, "The Big Bopper," was the old man on the plane, at 28. Youngest of all was a rising star of Chicano rock — Latin Rock and Roll — Ritchie Valens. He was 17.
Jan 27, 2019 · Sixty years ago this week, the Winter Dance Party concert tour was crisscrossing Minnesota and neighboring states, featuring Ritchie Valens, J.P. "the Big Bopper" Richardson and Buddy Holly. Then ...
Jan 13, 2017 · Kevin Pyle/ZUMA. Tommy Allsup, the guitarist who famously avoided “the Day the Music Died” after losing his plane seat in a coin toss to Ritchie Valens, died Wednesday following complications ...
Feb 3, 2006 · Feb. 3, 2006 12 AM PT. Ritchie Valens, Pacoima’s favorite son and America’s first Latino rock star, died in the Iowa plane crash that also killed Buddy Holly and J.P. (“the Big Bopper ...
Website. www .ritchievalens .com. Signature. 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.
Jan 10, 2022 · A few months later, Valens died. Years later, Ludwig stated that she "can't say [she] loved him" because she was only a child when their brief romance occurred. Nonetheless, the death "devastated" the 16-year-old. Shortly after, Ludwig's father reportedly made her record two songs to capitalize on his death.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Ritchie Valens was a Mexican American singer and songwriter influential in the Chicano rock movement. He recorded numerous hits during his short career, most notably the 1958 hit "La Bamba ...
