This week's show is notable not only for the dream-like quality of the songs but also for the handful of very distinct female voices. 21 seconds into the first track on their album Lupon I found out ...

"Dibujos de Mi Alma," the lead single from experimental folk band Y La Bamba's upcoming album, Lucha, captures how it feels to yearn for someone while trying to avoid the pitfalls of toxic love. Lead ...

Where rock and roll and passion meet, you can find Chicano legend Ritchie Valens waiting. At this intersection and cherished sanctuary is music. “La Bamba” (1987)underscores how Valens defined the ...

“Some of y’all were roasting me in the comments for not knowing the words to La Bamba the other day…” Smith wrote in the caption. Smith proved everyone wrong by proceeding to sing the lyrics, “Para ...

Will Smith has spent less than two months on Instagram and has already wowed fans with his life coach-worthy advice, pointed celebrity roasting and epic Super Bowl fan hype video. But the Fresh Prince ...

Sixty years ago, a Mexican folk tune sung entirely in Spanish became a rock and roll phenomenon. Generations after Ritchie Valens, young Latinos... Through Slavery, Segregation And More, 'La Bamba' ...

At Cathedral High School last week, someone started singing it in English class-and things got out of hand. ”The whole class started singing it, and they wouldn`t stop,” says Norma Martinez, a 17-year ...

On June 30, 1987, Slash/Warner Bros. released the soundtrack to the film La Bamba, a biopic about Ritchie Valens, a Chicano rock pioneer who died in the same 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly ...

The 1950’s in America: Families would gather around the television every night, and young people sang and danced to the rock and roll of Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry. For a short time, there was also ...