As Martin Hawkins wrote in the History of Rock partwork in 1982: “Ritchie Valens was hardly old enough to have assimilated too many influences in his music – what you hear is what he was.

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Seventeen-year-old Ritchie Valens had a huge singing career ahead of him—until a simple coin toss brought it to a tragic end. Devastation in the City of Angels: Astonishing video of LA in ruins ...

Ritchie Valens was rescued from obscurity by a 1987 movie, “La Bamba,” that finally put the Southern California teen’s story ahead of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, the two older singers ...

I write about the auto industry and its impact on almost everything. Valens Semiconductor says it’s developing technology to counter a hidden enemy for automakers – electro-magnetic noise that ...