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Biography
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Charlie Ace
Real name: Valdene Dixon
Effective period / Period of releases: 1970 - 1975
Charlie Ace was one of the Jamaican DJ originals. Following his career as a DJ, in the early 70's he drove around the backstreets of Kingston in his Swing A Ling Mobile Record Shack, a converted Morris Van. From this mobile shop, he would sell the latest releases, many of them pressed on his own label Swing-A-Ling. He was gunned down in Kingston in the early 1980's.