"La Bamba" (pronouncedlaamba) is a Mexicanfolk song, originally from the state ofVeracruz, also known as "La Bomba". The song is best known from a 1958 adaptation byRitchie Valens, atop 40hit on the U.S. charts. Valens's version is ranked number 345 onRolling Stonemagazine€s list of the500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and is the only song on the list not written or sung in English. Los Lobos's Version: The music video directed by Sherman Halsey won the 1988 MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film; it also featured Lou Diamond Phillips, the actor who played Valens in the 1987 film La Bamba. The song was also the fourth wholly non-English language song to top the Billboard Hot 100.