Valens
Americannoun
noun
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Chicano rock group Las Cafeteras, at the 2024 Winter Dance Party — an Iowa music festival dedicated to Valens, Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, who played their final show there in 1959.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The pilots quickly brought the plane down to a safe landing in Van Nuys, mercifully avoiding the fates of peers like Jenni Rivera, Aaliyah and Ritchie Valens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
Holly, who was 22 when he died in a 1959 plane crash alongside fellow rock-and-rollers Ritchie Valens and J.P.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
The singer-songwriter and his buddy Taylor Hackford would drink beer, belt out Ritchie Valens songs and make big plans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025
He told the story about how Waylon Jennings had survived the 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Richie Valens.
From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz
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