Ricardo Esteban Valenzuela Reyes, dit Ritchie Valens, né le 13 mai 1941 à Los Angeles et mort le 3 février 1959 à Clear Lake (en) dans l'Iowa, est un rocker américain d'origine indiano-mexicaine.
Bien avant Julio Iglesias et les Gipsy Kings, Ritchie Valens fut le premier Latino à placer un hit dans le top 50 des ventes de disques aux États-Unis, avec La Bamba.
Il fabrique lui-même sa première guitare, puis, alors qu'il fréquente encore l'école secondaire, signe un contrat avec le label Del-Fi (en), à Los Angeles en 1958.
Il part en tournée avec Eddie Cochran.
Avec des titres comme Come On Let's Go en octobre 1958 puis 2 mois plus tard de Donna (qu'il écrivit pour sa petite amie), il est propulsé au sommet des charts américains. "Donna" a été repris par des artistes aussi divers que Cliff Richard, MxPx, The Youngbloods, Clem Snide, Cappadonna, et les Misfits.
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"He played us the guitar and showed us every song from Roy Orbison to The Beatles to Ritchie Valens to Ronnie Milsap to Waylon Jennings," Garza said. "When we were just kids listening to him playing these songs on the guitar, we really thought he wrote ...
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and JP ?The Big Bopper? Richardson had their lives taken in a plane crash following a concert in what state? This was the final question at the Strongsville Education Foundation's annual March Trivia Madness competition ...
Their dad taught them guitar when they were 4 or 5, and he'd play for his sons the songs of the Beatles, Ritchie Valens, Willie Nelson and Roy Orbison. ?We thought he wrote them all,? Henry Garza said. ?We wanted to be just like dad.
It has long been believed that the song was the story of what is known to music fans everywhere as ?the day the music died? ? the plane crash that killed Buddy Holley, The Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens, and Frankie Sardo on February 3, 1959 ? McLean ...
... roll with a specific British feel predominant in such classic songs from Cliff and the Drifters, Tommy Steele, Johnny Kidd, Vince Taylor and Billy Fury, and also other songs from the great Eddie Cochran, Johnny Cash, Ritchie Valens, Elvis and more.
Chapter 1 featured songs by Buddy Holly, Bobby Vee and Ritchie Valens and included "One Last Kiss", "More Than I Can Say" and "La Bamba". Chapter 2 saw the five young people singing Doris Day's "Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)", ...
They landed a place on the Winter Dance Party tour with Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper. Holly, at the time, was just 22 years old and on top of the world -- tremendously successful in the brand new genre of rock and roll music.
As they listen to Don McLean lament "the day the music died" in his 1971 song American Pie, they'll walk, as they do every year, to the site of the plane crash where singers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper died a few minutes after 1 am ...
With this show, it's as if Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JK Richardson, aka, The Big Bopper, never got on that-ill fated plane back in 1959 and are still rocking and raving on... For the show, Mueller portrays Buddy Holly; Ray Anthony becomes Ritchie ...
McLean, now 66, did a pretty good job of hitting all the right notes in the timeless cut, which tells of ?The Day the Music Died,? a presumed reference to the 1959 plane crash that killed legendary rock and rollers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP ...
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