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WHEN ROCK’N’ROLL first stopped calling itself rhythm and blues in the mid Fifties, it became a young man’s game. 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. Ritchie’s is ...
Ritchie's 18th Birthday . On the first anniversary of Ritchie’s death, Ritchie’s mother wanted to honor his memory. Pictured from left to right: Olga Jurado-Zubick, Ritchie’s cousin; Gail Smith, Ritchie’s classmate and president of the Ritchie Valens Memorial Fan Club; Paulina Lozano, sister of Ritchie’s aunt Ernestine; Ritchie’s mother Connie, better known a “Concha”; Donna ...
Dec 24, 2008 · The late, great Ritchie Valens. This is his version of the timeless classic, La Bamba. The other versions on Youtube, claiming to be Ritchie Valens are the L...
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Ritchie Valens. In an all too brief career, Ritchie Valens was the first Chicano rock and roll star, having his best remembered hit, "La Bamba," just one month before his untimely death with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper on February 3, 1959. Steve and Ritchie. A young Ritchie Valenzuela. The Joseph Steven Valenzuela family live in the San ...
About Ritchie Valens. Richard Steven Valenzuela was a pop star in the late 1950s, when he was taken from the music world by the same plane crash that killed Rock & Roll legend Buddy Holly and ...
Richard Steven Valenzuela, mais conhecido como Ritchie Valens ( Los Angeles, 13 de maio de 1941 — Clear Lake, 3 de fevereiro de 1959) foi um músico, compositor e guitarrista norte-americano, descendente de mexicanos, nascido em Pacoima (Vale de São Fernando), no subúrbio de Los Angeles, Califórnia, Estados Unidos .
Dec 11, 2020 · Ritchie Valens was just 17 years old when he scored the smash hits "La Bamba" and "Donna" in 1958, which feature his virtuoso-level guitar playing and classic crooner-style voice, respectively. To be that proficient and successful at such a young age obviously hints at Valens' prodigy-like abilities, while also indicating that he had a bit of ...
