Ritchie Valens helped merge traditional Mexican music with American rock 'n' roll when he recorded "La Bamba" in 1958. Since his version, "La Bamba" has been recorded over 150 times in the United States. The...

"La Bamba" is a traditional song created in the Mexican state of Veracruz over 300 years ago. Influenced by Spanish flamenco and Afro-Mexican beats, the song uses the violin, jaranas, guitar, and harp, and is sung in falsetto. Lyrics to the song greatly...

The first hint Donna Ludwig had that she might become a rock 'n' roll legend came on a bright October day in 1958. She and six of her friends were cruising the main drag in downtown San Fernando, in the white convertible her daddy...

Lou Diamond Phillips, the star of "La Bamba," Luis Valdez's film about the life of rock 'n' roll singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens, has the broad, noble face of a Mayan deity. It's a face with great inherent beauty and dignity, a great face for the...

 It’s a good question, actually. “La Bamba”: What, exactly, is that song about?Also: Can Mexicans eat anything without hot sauce? And this: Why do Mexicans swim with their clothes on? Those are just the printable – in this newspaper anyway – questions that Gustavo Arellano...

Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Monday that Barack Obama has too little experience and perhaps too much ambition, pressing an increasingly aggressive campaign against her chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.Both candidates were in Iowa, one month before the nation's leadoff caucuses with new polls...