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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-02T13:12:00.000Z",
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    "Latino",
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  "textContent": "**The overnight rocksta** r — The Chicano rock & roll star exploded overnight in the late ’50s, but just as quickly he was gone, killed in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly. An ’80s biopic saw him immortalised on the big screen, which photographer Merrick Morton captured behind the scenes.",
  "title": "On the set of ‘La Bamba’, lost Latino legend Ritchie Valens’s biopic"
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