Here's a clip from a 1959 rock n roll film Go, Johnny, Go!
It amazes me just how good Ritchie Valens was. Some people have so much of it that they cant help but to exude the music the "IT" the "SOUL"...
He was only 17!
On February 3, 1959, rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson. The event later became known as "The Day the Music Died"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died