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  1. 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.

  2. Ritchie (Lou Diamond Phillips) performs "La Bamba" on stage.#LaBamba #RitchieValens #HDClips #MovieScenes Now on Disc and Digital: https://www.sonypictures.c...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Dec 16, 2020 · A Detailed Look At The Tragic Death Of Ritchie Valens. 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 ...

  5. May 9, 2024 · Ritchie Valens (born May 13, 1941, Pacoima, California, U.S.—died February 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa) 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.. Valens grew up in suburban Los Angeles in a family of Mexican and possibly Native ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. © 2022 Ritchie Valens The Official Site News - Archives Ritchie's Scrapbook Where Ritchie Was The Day the Music Died

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  9. May 13, 2021 · Ritchie Valens was just 17 years old when he changed the course of pop music in the late 1950s. As the first Mexican-American hitmaker in the U.S., he laid the groundwork for Chicano rock and ...

  10. HALL OF FAME ESSAY. In December 1958, Ritchie Valens paid a visit to his alma mater, Pacoima Junior High School, in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California. Not much older than the assembled students (he had turned seventeen the previous May 13), he performed an assortment of its, his own and others’, including his latest single, the ...

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