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… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ritchie Valens’ high school sweetheart still vividly remembers the moment in the fall of 1958 when she first heard the ballad “Donna” that Valens had written for her. Donna Fox (then Donna ...

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- Hodgkins ...