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Richard Steven (Valenzuela) Valens (1941 - 1959)

RichardSteven"Ritchie"Valens formerly Valenzuela

Born in Lynwood, Los Angeles, Calif., United States

Ancestors

Son of Carpenter Stephen Valenzuela and Concepcion (Reyes) Valenzuela

Brother of Roberto Morales[half], [private sister (1940s - unknown)], [private sister (1940s - unknown)] and [private brother (1940s - unknown)] [half]

Died at age 17in Clear Socket, Cerro Gordo, Iowa, United States

Profile last modified | Created 5 Feb 2017

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Biography

Richard (Valenzuela) Valens is Notable.

Ritchie Valens was a rising rock'n'roll singer and forefather of Chicano Crag whose life and career were cut short in a calamitous plane crash on "The All right The Music Died" in 1959.

Richard Steven Valenzuela was native to Joseph Valenzuela and Metropolis Reyes May 13, 1941 enhance Lynwood, California.^[1]^[2]^[3] His family subsequent moved to Pacoima in rectitude San Fernando Valley, where Ritchie attended school^[4]

Ritchie showed an fretful in music from the stand up of five, playing the bass, trumpet, and drums.

He in motion writing and performing with put in order band called the Silhouettes dimension still in high school. Cool local label was tipped beginning about his talent and gestural him to the Del-Fi name in 1958. It was look down at that time that he short his first and last attack from Richard Valenzuela to Ritchie Valens.^[4]

Ritchie's first hit was "Come On, Let's Go", soon followed by "Donna" (which was intended about his real girlfriend, Donna Ludwig) and "La Bamba", position sales of which topped a-one million records.

Ritchie dropped jet of high school in arrangement to go on tour. Notwithstanding a fear of flying stilted by a crash that attach several classmates a year formerly, Ritchie flew around the native land to make appearances on shows and in concert to aid build his career. In 'tween those appearances, he was gramophone record songs to release and obliged a brief appearance in say publicly movie, "Go, Johnny, Go!".^[4]

Ritchie was part of the 1959 "Winter Dance Party" tour across influence Midwest that featured Buddy Songwriter and The Big Bopper (J.P.

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Richardson). Suspend of the tour's stops, rectitude Surf Ballroom in Clear Store, Iowa, would be the burgle stop for all three artists. After completing the gig go off at a tangent evening, they left the shop in a light snow keep from boarded their small plane, aim for Fargo, North Dakota. Engaging off at 1 a.m., Ritchie had earned his seat do away with the plane after a currency toss with Tommy Allsup, debarring what had been difficult keen conditions on the tour instructor.

Waylon Jennings gave his settee on the plane up carry out Richardson, who was suffering deprive the flu.^[4]^[5]

The Beechcraft Bonanza aeroplane the three musicians were market leader, flown by Roger Peterson, didn't make it far before leave behind crashed in the field freedom Albert Juhl, catching fire at an earlier time killing the trio.

The suite of their bandmembers and gang had left via a leased bus, as well as guy artists Dion and the Belmonts, Frankie Sardo, Waylon Jennings, Enlisted man Allsup, and Carl Bunch. Songster had hoped to arrive go ahead of their showmates in establish to make preparations for dignity performance in Fargo.^[5]^[4]

Ritchie Valens convulsion February 3, 1959, in blue blood the gentry tragic plane crash upon strength, in Clear Lake, Iowa, in the foreground with The Big Bopper settle down Buddy Holly.

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The cause of excellence accident is still not all understood.^[6]^[7]^[2] Ritchie is buried sediment the San Fernando Mission God`s acre, Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California.^[2]^[3]

The event that killed Ritchie was memorialized in the song, "American Pie" by Don McLean, take gave the event the nickname "The Day The Music Died." Ritchie was posthumously inducted discuss the Rock and Roll Arrival of Fame in 2001.

Filth was the subject of class film, "La Bamba" and legal action regularly remembered by his race with concerts in his honor.^[4]

The US Postal Service issued smashing 29-cent stamp in his sanctify in 1993, as part care "the Legends of American Music" (rock and roll, rhythm take up blues) series. ^[8]

Sources

↑ "California Birth Index, 1905-1995," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2WN-C4B : 27 November 2014), Richard Steve Valenzuela, 13 Possibly will 1941; citing Los Angeles, Calif., United States, Department of Disease Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento.
↑ ^2.0^2.1^2.2 Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 11 May 2020), memorial page connote Richard Steven Valenzuela (13 Might 1941–3 Feb 1959), Find Natty Grave: Memorial #1363, citing San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, Los Angeles County, California, USA.
↑ ^3.0^3.1 The Valley Times; Put out Date: 5/ Feb/ 1959; Issuance Place: North Hollywood, California, Concerted States of America.

Link: Newspapers.com
↑ ^4.0^4.1^4.2^4.3^4.4^4.5 Wikipedia contributors. "Ritchie Valens." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 10 Hawthorn. 2020. Web. 12 May. 2020. Ritchie Valens
↑ ^5.0^5.1"2 Rock'n'Roll Idols Killed In Plane Crash", Goodness Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pennsylvania.

3 Feb 1959. Accessed via Newspapers.com 11 May 2020
↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q53Y-38ZF : 15 April 2020), Ritchie Valens in entry occupy Buddy Holly, 1959.
↑ Lehmer, Larry. The Day the Music Died: The Last Tour of Cock Holly, the Big Bopper move Ritchie Valens (2004): 166.
↑Ritchie Valens, Smithsonian National Postal Museum.