Ritchie Valens

Ritchie Valens was a rock and roll musician popular in the fifties. He is noted for being in the same plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson in what was immortalized in folk rock musician Don Mclean's hit American Pie as "The Day the Music Died". Valens did not have many hits, only Donna and La Bamba. He almost had a third, Come On Let's Go. There have been many tributes to Valens as well as representations in media. The band Los Lobos covered La Bamba decades later, which Weird Al Yankovic parodied with his song Lasagna.