Del-Fi Records founder Bob Keane, who discovered 50′s rocker Ritchie Valens, has died of renal failure in Los Angeles. Keane was living an assisted care facility in Hollywood, CA he was 87.
Keane founded Del-Fi records in the 1950s and discovered Valans in 1958, when Valens was only 17 years old. Valens recorded the smash hits ‘La Bamba’ ‘Come On Lets Go’ and ‘Donna’ and was the inspiration for the film ‘La Bamba’ starring Lou Diamond Phillips. Valens was tragically killed on February 3rd, 1959 in the same plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, which inspired the Don MacLean song “The Day The Music Died”.
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