The San Fernando American Legion will dedicate a bandstand Thursday evening honoring Ritchie Valens at the site where the pioneering rock-and-roll musician performed as a teenager before rising to ...
Josué completed the demos by adding his own music and lyrics while rearranging what was already there. In 1959, Holly and ...
PACOIMA — Almost 60 years have passed since Ritchie Valens’ short 17 years of life, but his presence remains alive and well in the San Fernando Valley, more specifically in Pacoima, his hometown. A ...
On Feb. 3, 1959, the face of modern music changed forever in one tragic moment with the simultaneous deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. Later referred to as The Day the Music ...
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la bamba
Lou Diamond Phillips looks back at the barrier-breaking 1987 hit "La Bamba" and pay discrimination he's faced in Hollywood.
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 Ludwig) was ...
SAN ANTONIO — Search the internet for video evidence of Ritchie Valens’s iconic-but-all-too-brief career as a Latino rock pioneer, and you’d find yourself searching for hours. In fact, there’s only ...
This essay is adapted from Merrick Morton's "La Bamba: A Visual History," published by Hat & Beard Press. “Dance!! Dance!! Dance!! to the music of the Silhouettes Band!!” read the handbill. The ...
When Connie Valens Anderson, sister of of late rock ‘n’ roll icon Ritchie Valens, learned that a stretch of the 5 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley was being named after her brother, she couldn’t ...
Ritchie Valens will always hold a special place in the heart of Pacoima residents. Now, the “La Bamba” kid turned rock ‘n’ roll legend, has his own post office. The United States Postal Service and ...
PACOIMA, Calif. (CNS) -- A bill to rename the Pacoima post office in honor of rock 'n' roll legend Ritchie Valens has been approved by the House of Representatives. Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Panorama City ...
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