• La Bamba is a 1987 American biographical drama film written and directed by Luis Valdez. The film follows the life and short-lived musical career of American...
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  • La Bamba may refer to: La Bamba (film), a 1987 film based on the life of Ritchie Valens "La Bamba" (song), a folk song best known from a 1958 adaptation...
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  • "La Bamba" (pronounced [la ˈβamba]) is a Mexican folk song, originally from the state of Veracruz, also known as "La Bomba". The song is best known from...
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  • La Bamba: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 1987 American biographical film of the same name, released on June 30, 1987...
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    months after his breakthrough. Valens had several hits, most notably "La Bamba", which he had adapted from a Mexican folk song. Valens transformed the...
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    Elizabeth Peña (category Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni)
    an American actress. Her work in films included Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Batteries Not Included, La Bamba (both 1987), Jacob's Ladder (1990)...
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    Luis Valdez (category American male film actors)
    screenwriter, film director and actor. Regarded as the father of Chicano film and playwriting, Valdez is best known for his play Zoot Suit, his movie La Bamba, and...
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  • He is best known for his work as musical director of the films Zoot Suit (1981) and La Bamba (1987). Daniel Valdez was born to Francisco and Armida Valdez...
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  • Super Blues collaboration album. He recorded it again in 1987 for the La Bamba film soundtrack. Willie Dixon produced the song and Los Lobos provided the...
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    clothing fad in 1940s Film: A Better Life Cesar Chavez (film) Fools Rush In (1997 film) From Prada to Nada La Bamba (film) Lowriders (film) McFarland, USA Spare...
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    Esai Morales (category Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni)
    is an American actor. He has had notable roles in the films Bad Boys with Sean Penn and La Bamba with Lou Diamond Phillips. His television roles include...
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    Off the Boat, Hell's Kitchen and Freedom: A History of US as well as in films like D2: The Mighty Ducks, Frosted Pink, and the Disney Channel original...
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    Lou Diamond Phillips (category American film directors of Filipino descent)
    breakthrough came when he starred as Ritchie Valens in the biographical drama film La Bamba (1987). For Stand and Deliver (1988), Phillips was nominated for a Golden...
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    Orchestra. In 1987, he made a cameo appearance as Eddie Cochran in the film La Bamba. Setzer was born April 1959 in Massapequa, New York. He started on the...
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  • released around the same time as Los Lobos' rendition, which supported the film La Bamba (1987). Abraham recollected how A.B. was unable to rival Hollywood,...
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    Joe Pantoliano (category American male film actors)
    recognition for numerous supporting roles in films and television shows such as Hill Street Blues, The Goonies, La Bamba, Empire of the Sun, Midnight Run, NYPD...
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  • the film; songs that appear in the film but not in the soundtrack are "La Bamba" by Ritchie Valens, "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" by Jerry Lee Lewis,...
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  • drive" than La Bamba. More negative response, however, came from critic Richard Harrington of The Washington Post, who wrote: The filming is often flat...
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  • Rosanna DeSoto (category American film actresses)
    Azetbur, the daughter of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon. DeSoto's other film roles include La Bamba (1987) as Ritchie Valens' mother Connie Valenzuela; and Family...
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    Dujardin as Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath / OSS 117 Pierre Niney as Serge / OSS 1001 Fatou N'Diaye as Zéphyrine Bamba Natacha Lindinger as Micheline Pierson...
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  • Jon Heder as Dennis Matt Battaglia as Mike Susan Diol as Gaby Bambadjan Bamba as Tony Patrick Bristow as Klaus Sandra Nelson as Isabella Carol Locatell...
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    Khalil Fong (section Film)
    Kong–based Hawaiian singer-songwriter and producer. The biographical film La Bamba, about the life and career of Ritchie Valens, greatly influenced Fong's...
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  • 2022 by Abdoulaye Bamba, the festival aims to promote African films on an international scale while introducing international films to the African continent...
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    Danielle von Zerneck (category American film actresses)
    Ludwig, Ritchie Valens' girlfriend in the film La Bamba (1987). Her last acting credit was in the 2001 television film Acceptable Risk, based on the novel of...
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  • and Brian Setzer, the last of whom recorded his version for the 1987 film La Bamba, in which he portrayed Cochran. The song is about the struggle between...
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    Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise Luis Valdez: I Am Joaquín, Zoot Suit, La Bamba W. S. Van Dyke: The Thin Man, Naughty Marietta, The Prisoner of Zenda (uncredited)...
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    Tito Larriva (category American male film actors)
    Los Angeles music scene by including their version of "La Bamba" on "We're Desperate: The L.A. Scene (1976-79)." The Plugz released two albums, Electrify...
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    they recorded some Ritchie Valens covers for the soundtrack of the film La Bamba, including the title track, which became a number one single for the...
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    Taylor Hackford (category Film directors from California)
    Producer only La Bamba (1987) When We Were Kings (1996) (Documentary) G:MT – Greenwich Mean Time (1999) "Taylor Hackford Biography (1944?-)". Film Reference...
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  • overview of the events of 2014 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of films released and notable deaths....
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