Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959), known professionally as Ritchie Valens, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens was killed in a plane crash eight months into his music career
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Everyone Is Mortal RIP Ritchie Valens
Ritchie Valens was a Mexican/American singer/songwriter who died in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper in 1959, age 17 Everyone is mortalEveryone will dieRitchie Valens passed awayMany said goodbye Reader you are mortalReader you will dieEven I as poetSome day I will die Don MatthewsNovember 2020
Flippant, Comic, and Serious 