◇ image via WikipediaRitchie Valens
Ritchie Valens is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Earl Palmer and Little Richard. Those roots explain a lot about how Ritchie Valens arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Buddy Holly, The Little Dippers, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Everly Brothers and Bobby Vee, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The McCoys, Ivan Cornejo, Carlos Santana, Selena and Caifanes, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 37 connections around Ritchie Valens, reaching back through Earl Palmer and forward to The McCoys. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Richard Steven Valenzuela, better known by his stage name Ritchie Valens, was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens died in a plane crash just eight months after his breakthrough.
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Ritchie Valens connections
Ritchie Valens grew out of Earl Palmer and Little Richard, shares an orbit with Buddy Holly, The Little Dippers, Jerry Lee Lewis and The Everly Brothers, went on to shape The McCoys, Ivan Cornejo, Carlos Santana and Selena. 37 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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