“Ritchie who?” I asked. My mom replied, “Ritchie Valens.” One weekend afternoon in 1987, my mom suggested our family go to a movie and proposed we see the movie, La Bamba. I had no idea who Ritchie Valens was, and my mom explained he was a singer from the ‘50s and the movie was about his life. I wasn’t too sure about this movie my mom was telling me about, …