The Edmonton Oilers have made it to their first Stanley Cup Final since 2006 and things look -- and sound -- a bit different. For some time now, the Oilers have used Ritchie Valens' 1958 hit song ...

On Tuesday, April 20, Clarkson and her Kelly Clarkson Show backing outfit, My Band Y’all, delivered a bustling rendition of “La Bamba,” the Mexican folk song that Ritchie Valens scored a ...

Ritchie Valens died in a 1959 plane crash that also claimed the lives of Buddy Holly and J.P. Richardson. A remake of 'La Bamba' will retell his story.

That winter day became known as “The Day the Music Died,” and was immortalized in the 1971 song “American Pie” by Don McLean. A new book by award-winning poet J. Michael Martinez uses the life and ...

Titled “RiTchie Valens” in homage to the Chicano rock pioneer, the track is tongue in cheek but stylistically inventive. Read Next: RIP Injury Reserve, long live By Storm ...

Valens died in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959, at age 17. The crash, in a cornfield in Iowa, also claimed the lives of Buddy Holly and Jiles Perry Richardson, a.k.a. "The Big Bopper." ...

Though it might better be remembered for its soundtrack and iconic title track, 1987’s biopic of Mexican-American rocker Ritchie Valens, ‘ La Bamba ’, was successful enough to score a Golden ...