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Chan Romero: The Rockabilly Pioneer Who Filled Ritchie Valens' Shoes

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Published March 25, 2016 at 2:39 PM EDT

After Ritchie Valens died in a plane crash in 1959, a Montana teen named Chan Romero stepped into his shoes—and almost his life.

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