Johnny Ace
Full Name: John Marshall Alexander, Jr.
Birth Date: June 9, 1929
Deceased Date: December 25, 1954
Artist Bio:
Young, gifted and promising R&B/blues balladeer with a posthumous hit (“Pledging My Love,” #17, R&B #1, 1955) and epitaph (Billboard magazine’s “most played artist of 1955”) after he shot himself to death playing Russian roulette backstage after a show in Houston on Christmas night, 12/25/1954, age 25
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