Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Dance!! Dance!! Dance!! to the music of the Silhouettes Band!!" read the handbill. The Silhouettes featured Ritchie Valens — "the ...

At just 17 years old, San Fernando Valley native and son of Sonoran immigrants Richard Valenzuela — better known as Ritchie Valens — changed the course of rock and roll with the release of breakout ...

Courtesy of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum If all of this wasn’t enough, The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum has rolled out the news that Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper ...

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 who died in ...

John Stamos was originally cast as the lead in La Bamba, reveals Lou Diamond Phillips. Phillips was auditioning for the role of Bob, the brother of Ritchie Valens, until Stamos dropped out of the 1987 ...

Back in August, Nathaniel Ritchie and Parker Corey shared their first joint single as By Storm — a moniker derived from “Bye Storm,” the final track on their final album with Jordan “Stepa J” Groggs ...