# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ritchie-valens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:37:31.089Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ritchie-valens"
name: "Ritchie Valens"
slug: "ritchie-valens"
description: "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."
tagline: "Native Latino American musician (1941–1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ritchie_Valens_1959_press_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941-05-13"
deathDate: "1959-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.ritchievalens.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump