A founding father of rock ’n’ roll, he would lose his life barely a year later, when the plane carrying members of the Winter ...

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 ...

Ritchie Valens was rescued from obscurity by a 1987 movie, “La Bamba,” that finally put the Southern California teen’s story ahead of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, the two older singers ...

The life and career of rock pioneer Ritchie Valens will be re-told in a remake of the 1987 biopic 'La ... Los Lobos’ “La Bamba” was nominated for a Grammy for Record of the Year. In this ...