Ritchie Valens
The young musician
Ritchie Valens
Performing on El Día de los Muertos
Donna
Donna Fox Ludwig, the inspiration for Valens' highest charting single
Singer and Producer
Ritchie Valens and Bob Keane
The Day the Music Died
The Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly shortly before their death in February 1959
Little Joe and the Latinaires
Ca. 1962, before the Chicano Movement inspired Little Joe