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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...
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...
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...
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Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959), 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. Quick Facts Born, Died ... Close.
Ritchie Valens: The Young Singer Who Pioneered Chicano Rock. 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 ...
Oct 14, 2018 · As the story goes, 1950s rock star Ritchie Valens — that 17-year-old kid from the the San Fernando valley — probably grew up hearing the Andres Huesca version of the old Mexican folk song ...
