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Ritchie Valens from Pacoima
Pacoima, California
Los Angeles Times · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A seventeen-year-old from a Valley barrio turned a Mexican wedding song into a rock and roll hit, singing La Bamba in Spanish he barely spoke. He was eight months into his career when the plane went down in Iowa. Los Lobos came out of the same tradition twenty years later.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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