About A Girl
Bringing women out from the shadows of music history. Familiar characters, new perspectives.
Donna Ludwig & Ritchie Valens — Donna
Los Angeles, 1957. In the time of drive-in movies and sock hops, high school student Donna Ludwig liked to sneak out of the house to have fun with her friends. On one night out, she met a young guitarist named Richard Valenzuela and was immediately smitten. As Ritchie Valens, he would have a chart-topping hit with a song he wrote for her, before his life was tragically cut short.
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