MARIA SANTIAGO-HOLLY
María Elena Holly (born December 20, 1932) is the widow of rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly. She owns the rights to his name, image, trademarks, and other intellectual property. In 2010, Santiago-Holly (Santiago is Maria’s maiden name) co-founded with Peter Bradley “The Buddy Holly Educational Foundation” also known as TBHEF. (More from Wikipedia)
In 2009 (on the 50th anniversary of the airplane crash), Don McLean wrote an editorial for CNN.com that told of his learning of it the following morning: “Buddy [Holly]’s death, for me, an impressionable 13-year-old, delivering papers, was an enormous tragedy. The cover photo of the posthumously released [The] Buddy Holly Story and The Buddy Holly Story, Vol. 2, coupled with liner notes written by his widow, Maria [Santiago-Holly], created a sense of grief that lived inside of me, until I was able to exorcize it with the opening verse of ‘American Pie’.”
(June 2013/1)
