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In 1987, brothers Ramiro and Antonio Aguas opened the first La Bamba restaurant near the main campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. [18] [4] [11] Named for the song of the same name, [3] it expanded into a franchise family-owned by La Bamba Mexican Restaurants Group, [12] [19] which had at least 27 locations [4] [20] in the central states with plans of possible expansion ...
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La Bamba may refer to: La Bamba, a 1987 film based on the life of Ritchie Valens "La Bamba" (song), a folk song best known from a 1958 adaptation by Ritchie Valens; La Bamba Mexican Restaurant, an American fast casual Tex-Mex restaurant chain
Made for only $6 million, La Bamba ultimately grossed over $52 million, grew in popularity on home video and in 2017 was added to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. “I've seen it ...
Nearly 40 years after its theatrical release, 'La Bamba' is being remade, but the film's original director and writer questions why rock 'n' roll star Ritchie Valens' life is being told, again.
The song "La Bamba", made famous by Ritchie Valens, has its roots in the Veracruz "son" style of music, which originated in southern part of the state of Veracruz. It has African and Caribbean influence and is popular throughout Mexico, Latin America and the United States.
Valens was born as Richard Steven Valenzuela on May 13, 1941, in Pacoima, [3] a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles.The son of Joseph Steven Valenzuela (1896–1952) and Concepción "Concha" Reyes (1915–1987), he had two half-brothers, Robert "Bob" Morales (1937–2018) and Mario Ramirez, and two younger sisters, Connie and Irma.
The song was notably covered by Los Lobos for the soundtrack to the 1987 film La Bamba which portrayed the life story of Ritchie Valens. In one scene, Valens is shown singing it to his girlfriend Donna Ludwig on the telephone and in another scene Valens is shown recording the song in the recording studio, and in a third scene he is shown performing the song on American Bandstand.