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Her girlfriends went crazy when the D. Only his Fender guitar is missing. He had taken it with him on his final tour.

The Fender guitar had made it home. Mellow Center, Watsonville, CA. Photo taken backstage with Donna and the family of Ritchie Valens. Ritchie was my first true love and my first experience losing someone I loved. Back then, he was known as Ritchie Valenzuela. Bob Keane, the a Del-Fi record label exec, discovered him and had Ritchie's change his last name to make it more "radio friendly" aka, whitewash his identity — but that's a different story.

Ritchie and Donna dated in high school , and their romance was portrayed in the biopic La Bamba. Although Movie Donna was more demure, according to The Washington Post , who interviewed the real Donna who now goes by Donna Fox-Coots , real-life Donna had an "independent streak" that led her to date Ritchie.

Donna's father didn't approve of the relationship, because, remember, this was the '50s: Donna was white, and Ritchie was Latino. It was just very, very touching. He didn't tell me he was going to record it. I mean, because he was a nice boy. He didn't swear. He didn't get drunk. Whenever he'd be back in town, they'd get together. What does the words La Bamba mean? The name of the dance, which has no direct English translation, is presumably connected with the Spanish verb bambolear, meaning "to shake" or perhaps "to stomp".

A traditional huapango song, "La Bamba" is often played during weddings in Veracruz, where the bride and groom perform the accompanying dance. Did Ritchie Valens buy his mom a house? Valens purchased the home for his mother in and resided here until his death in , which was the most productive period of his professional career. Where was La Bamba filmed? Los Angeles. Who died with Ritchie Valens?

Roger Peterson. Did Ritchie Valens friend really die? Tommy Allsup, a guitarist best known for losing a coin toss that kept him off a plane that later crashed and killed rock-and-roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. What did Bob Morales do for a living? He was immortalized in La Bamba by Esai Morales, who captured his grittiness and his pain.

Bob, a resident of Watsonville, California, died at the age of 81 after suffering from prostate cancer.