Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Valens was born as Richard Steven Valenzuela on May 13, 1941, in Pacoima, [3] a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles.The son of Joseph Steven Valenzuela (1896–1952) and Concepción "Concha" Reyes (1915–1987), he had two half-brothers, Robert "Bob" Morales (1937–2018) and Mario Ramirez, and two younger sisters, Connie and Irma.
"Donna" is a song written by Ritchie Valens, [1] featuring a I IV V chord progression. The song was released in 1958 on Del-Fi Records . [ 2 ] Written as a tribute to his high school sweetheart Donna Ludwig, it was Valens' highest-charting single, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the following year.
The film also covers the effect that Valens' career had on the lives of his half-brother Bob Morales, his girlfriend Donna Ludwig, and the rest of his family. The film is titled after a traditional Mexican folk song of the same name , which Valens transformed into a rock and roll rendition in 1958.
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Donna, 68, died on Dec. 29 due to injuries she suffered in a devastating head-on car crash — a Christmas night tragedy at the hands of a driver accused of driving drunk. The wreck also claimed ...
The tragic death of a 28-year-old newscaster in Arizona has left colleagues devastated. Ana Orsini, a co-anchor at CBS affiliate KOLD-TV in Tucson , died last week of a brain aneurysm.
A local television news station in Arizona is mourning the death of its “beloved” 28-year-old anchor. Ana Orsini, who hosted the flagship morning show on the CBS affiliate KOLD News 13 in ...
In the following table, the second column shows an image if available, the third the date of the person's birth, the fourth the date of death, the fifth the day the article expansion began, the sixth when it appeared on the Main page among the recent deaths (RD), the eighths interlanguage links (de stands for German, a + notes that there's another language, and ++ that there are even more ...