[Alberta's Child]

. . . many Lopez, Gomez, Garcia, etc. don't even speak Spanish.

That's a very good point. How many people know that 1950s pop star Ritchie Valens was actually a young guy from Los Angeles named Richard Valenzuela, and he had to be trained to sing the words to his trademark song "La Bamba" phonetically -- because he didn't speak any Spanish?

[Condor51]

***How many people know that 1950s pop star Ritchie Valens was actually a young guy from Los Angeles named Richard Valenzuela, and he had to be trained to sing the words to his trademark song "La Bamba" phonetically -- because he didn't speak any Spanish?***

Oh.. anybody over 56 who liked likes Rock & Roll :-)