A powerful true story about a teenage rock star whose meteoric rise and tragic end helped shape music history.

The brief yet influential life of American Chicano rock and roll musician Ritchie Valens has been elegantly portrayed in the 1987 biopic La Bamba. Penned and directed by Luis Valdez, La Bamba ...

Lou Diamond Phillips looks back at the barrier-breaking 1987 hit "La Bamba" and pay discrimination he's faced in Hollywood.

'La Bamba': The Best Rock Movie of 1987 With a No. 1 Soundtrack and Tragic True Story ...