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- Birth nameCharles Hardin Holley
- Height5′ 11½″ (1.82 m)
- Charles Hardin Holley, known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer and songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born in Lubbock, Texas, to a musical family during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his siblings. His style was influenced by gospel music, country music, and rhythm and blues acts, which he performed in Lubbock with his friends from high school.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- SpouseMaria Elena Holly(August 15, 1958 - February 3, 1959) (his death)
- RelativesLarry Holley(Sibling)Patricia Holley-Kaiter(Sibling)
- Wore horn rimmed black glasses
- Fender Stratocaster
- His wife was pregnant at the time of his death, but later suffered a miscarriage.
- Many, including Holly's father and his manager, were against Buddy's marriage to Maria Elena Santiago, a young Puerto Rican girl he met in New York months before his death.
- Although he used the last name "Holly" as a professional recording artist (it was an uncorrected mistake on his first recording contract; he liked the spelling and kept it), his gravestone gives the correct spelling of his name which is Holley.
- Buddy and his friends went to see The Searchers (1956) starring John Wayne. Several times through the movie, Wayne says "That'll be the day". The repeated phrase stuck with Holly and he wrote the song that would become his first #1 hit.
- Died when his chartered plane (N 3794 N) crashed. Also on board and killed in the crash were Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson). An investigation determined the cause of the crash was "pilot error"; the pilot was not qualified to fly by instruments, and the plane took off in a snowstorm. Despite later urban legends, the plane was not named the "American Pie"; it had no name.
- None of us could have made it without Elvis.
- Lyrics: "That'll be the day when you say goodbye / That'll be the day when you make me cry / You say you're gonna leave, you know it's a lie / Cause that'll be the day when I die".
- Lyrics: "Crying, waiting, hoping, that you'll come back / I just can't seem to get you off my mind / Crying, waiting, hoping, that you'll come back / You're the one I love and I think you all the time".
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