A founding father of rock ’n’ roll, he would lose his life barely a year later, when the plane carrying members of the Winter Dance Party Tour — Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Valens — crashed on Feb ...

In 1987, the film La Bamba starring Lou Diamond Phillips, captured Valens’ life story. Los Lobos, the veteran East Los Angeles rockers, performed Valens’ music. The band’s cover of “La Bamba,” went on ...

Bob Keane, who founded the West Coast independent label Del-Fi Records in the 1950s and is best known for discovering rock legend Ritchie Valens, has died. He was 87. Keane, who survived non- Hodgk… ...

Ritchie Valens started producing songs in 1957 and had sold over one million records by 1959. He died on 3 February 1959 in a plane crash alongside other top musicians, an incident that later ...

Bob Keane, 87, who founded the West Coast independent record label Del-Fi Records in the 1950s and is best known for discovering and recording Ritchie Valens, died of renal failure Nov. 28 at an ...

At the dedication of Ritchie Valens Park in Pacoima in the 1990s, ... The record took off, and “after that, Ritchie was gone all the time,” Munson says. On Feb. 3, 1959, ...

Ritchie Valens poses with Del-Fi Records’ Bob Keane in 1958. Gilles Petard/Redferns/Getty Images Valens’ debut single, the swing-rock party-starter “Come On, Let’s Go!,” instantly ...

Munson remembers a day in summer 1958 when Ritchie phoned to invite Munson to come hear his first record along with other friends. Ritchie’s producer, Bob Keane, came to the Valens home with a ...

Bob Keane, who founded the West Coast independent label Del-Fi Records in the 1950s and is best known for discovering and recording rock legend Ritchie Valens, has died. He was 87.

HOLLYWOOD – Bob Keane, who founded the West Coast independent label Del-Fi Records in the 1950s and is best known for discovering rock legend Ritchie Valens, has died. He was 87. Keane, who ...