Buddy Holly — The Day the Music Died Started in Lubbock, Texas He was twenty-two years old and had already changed American music forever. Buddy Holly started in Lubbock, Texas. 🎸 Most people know the name Buddy Holly. Very few people understand what he actually did — not just what he recorded, but what he changed, what he invented, and how much of the music that followed him would not exist in its current form without the twenty-two months of creative work he produced between 1957 and his deat