Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens & Big Bopper Exhibit Launches at Final Venue From the Night They Died originally appeared on ...

The Silhouettes featured Ritchie Valens — “the fabulous Lil’ Richi and his Crying Guitar!!” — at a 1958 appearance at the San Fernando American Legion Hall in Southern California.

Books about Valens, though, have been scarce. The only biography was 1987’s “Ritchie Valens, the First Latino Rocker” by Beverly Mendheim, who struggled to turn her research into a narrative.

Commemorating the final moments of the life of a music legend, the Surf Ballroom & Museum will unveil “Not Fade Away: The ...

This mural of Ritchie Valens, “La Bamba” by Hector Ponce, is among many reminders in Pacoima of the city’s native son. Valens died in a plane crash Feb. 3, 1959.

Many remember Feb. 3, 1959 as "the day the music died," but the Surf Ballroom is keeping its legacy alive with a new Music ...

PACOIMA >> A stretch of the 5 Freeway in the northeast San Fernando Valley will be renamed in honor of rock ‘n’ roll legend Ritchie Valens, thanks to a bill approved by the state Legislature.

When 17-year-old Ritchie Valens died with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper in an Iowa plane crash in 1959, the pop world was left with two intriguing questions. The first is the easy one: What kind ...