Glatt Kosher. Many people consider an observant Jew to be someone who keeps the laws of Shabbat and eats only kosher food. But there are actually a wide variety of ways that one can observe these commandments.
This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. On this day, in 1959, rock 'n' roll pioneer Buddy Holly died in a plane crash along with fellow stars Ritchie Valens and JP 'The Big Bopper' Richardson.
New Face: Lou Phillips; Playing A Legend, Inside Out. By LESLIE BENNETTS. Published: August 14, 1987. RITCHIE VALENS, the teen-age rock singer whose meteoric rise to stardom ended abruptly with his death in a plane crash in 1959, was a Mexican-American from California. Lou Diamond Phillips, who was born in the Philippines, describes his ethnic background as Filipino, Hawaiian, Chinese, Hispanic, Scotch-Irish, and Cherokee Indian.