La Bamba

An Indigenous Mexican-American farm laborer obsessed with music and full of dreams, 17-year-old Ritchie Valens burst into the world of rock and roll with a string of chart-busting singles. Clinging to the love of his girlfriend Donna Ludwig, haunted by a growing conflict with his older brother Roberto Morales, and eerie premonitions of his own death, Valens' meteoric rise to stardom suddenly ended in a shattering tragedy. On February 3, 1959, Ritchie Valens perished with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper in a plane crash five miles north of Clear Lake, Iowa.