# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-elena-holly
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:41:02.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-elena-holly"
name: "María Elena Holly"
slug: "maria-elena-holly"
description: "María Elena Holly is the widow of American rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly. As a receptionist at Peermusic, she met with Holly and his band the Crickets on June 19, 1958, and Holly proposed to her after five hours on their first date. Less than two months later, the couple married on August 15, 1958, in Lubbock, Texas. On February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly died in a plane crash along with fellow musicians Ritchie Valens and Jiles Perry Richardson Jr. outside Clear Lake, Iowa. After learning of her husband's death from the television news, she suffered a miscarriage the following day and could not attend Holly's funeral in Lubbock."
tagline: "Puerto Rican businesswoman"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1932-12-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.706145333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Elena_Holly"
    title: "María Elena Holly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Elena_Holly"
    title: "María Elena Holly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EB%A6%AC%EC%95%84_%EC%97%98%EB%A0%88%EB%82%98_%ED%99%80%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "마리아 엘레나 홀리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Elena_Holly"
    title: "María Elena Holly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6781980"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations