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Mar 7, 2024 · Ritchie Valens (born May 13, 1941, Pacoima, California, U.S.—died February 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa) 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. Valens grew up in suburban Los Angeles ...
May 13, 2021 · May 13, 2021. Mexican-American rock & roll pioneer Ritchie Valens would have been 80 this year. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Ritchie Valens was just 17 years old when he changed the...
Sep 19, 2022 · The life of rock & roll legend Richie Valens bursts across the screen in this celebrated, music-filled movie with star-making performances by Lou Diamond Phillips as Richie and Esai Morales as...
Feb 3, 2016 · On February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and their pilot Roger Peterson died in a plane crash, a tragedy that has been remembered as “The Day the...
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1. Year: 2001. Inducted by: Ricky Martin. Category: Performers. Introduction. The whiz kid behind the ultimate teen love anthem and the inexplicably catchy "La Bamba." Although his life was tragically cut short, Ritchie Valens’ inimitable blend of Mexican dance music and rock has influenced generations of rockers.
Ritchie Valens: The Young Singer Who Pioneered Chicano Rock - TeachRock. WHEN ROCK’N’ROLL first stopped calling itself rhythm and blues in the mid Fifties, it became a young man’s game.
