Blue Diamond Phillips La Bamba. Columbia PicturesGetty Images Eventually Valdez decided he wanted Phillips as Valens. They have one child.
Lou Diamond Phillips performs in a scene from the film La Bamba 1987. Louis Diamond Phillips né Upchurch. Though Phillips had sporadic acting roles in the mid-80s his breakout role was as Ritchie Valens in La Bamba.
They have one child.
They have one child. A Golden Globe nominee for Best Picture La Bamba is the story of the emergence in the late 1950s of a 17-year-old Mexican American boy--Ritchie Valens Lou Diamond Phillips whose real name was Ricardo Valenzuela--from the migrant camps and fruit groves of Californias San. Most of the news interest in Columbia Pictures current hit movie La Bamba has focused on the studios successful penetration of the Latino film-going audience through. The 57-year-old has long been drawn to playing true-life characters whether its the doomed rock star Ritchie Valens of 1987s La Bamba.
