Upon Richie's 2010 arrival to the D.C, Maryland, and Virginia area things picked up as if nothing had happened. With performances at venues ranging from Washington D.C's highly popular "Lux Lounge" to sets at popular D.C "Go-Go" parties Ace and his growing "DOA" brand began to make their stamp on the emerging Hip-Hop scene. On April 26th, 2011 Richie Acevedo received an opportunity of a lifetime and was selected as the feature artist on Grammy award winner Eminem’s satellite radio station Shade 45’s “Don’t Quit Your Day Job” segment, where he was told by the hosts to “go AWOL, you’re a star”.
Since the Shade45 co-sign, Richie has had two Interscope Digital distributed singles, “Only God Knows” and “Make This Clear”, the video for the first of which appearing on MTVu, VladTV, and ThisIs50.com. In the Summer of 2012, Richie Acevedo via Knowledge Entertainment released his Debut Album, “The High Life” to rave reviews, the critically acclaimed “Let It Go” music video directly showed Richie's ability not only as a cross-over artist but his potential to be a movie star.
An avid activist, artist, photographer, lyricist, songwriter, producer, and engineer, Mr. Richie Acevedo has taken his Hustle to the next level by attending Full Sail University, one of the nations new cutting edge mass media schools. Choosing to no longer use profanity in his rhymes, Richie is once again challenging himself to accomplish what most prefer not to do, make uplifting music. Richie lists his musical influences as Parliament, Dr. Dre, Al Green, Ice Cube, Isaac Hayes, Jay-Z, and Rakim. With both a domestic and international fan base and countless cosigns from some of the industries finest, Richie Acevedo now feels that he is ready to make his mark on the entertainment world.
Currently, Richie has taken Seattle by storm. His #HowHighAceHigh visual and social media campaign can be seen through out downtown Seattle as well on it's iHeartMedia radio station Kube93. In August of 2014, Richie signed a deal with One Famm Music Group now distributed by SMC / inGrooves / Universal Music Group. He proclaims that his agenda is to "change the perspective of how we look at music and art as a whole". An avid activist, photographer, lyricist, songwriter, producer, and engineer, Ace High has taken his Hustle to the next level. Choosing to no longer use profanity in his rhymes, Richie is once again challenging himself to accomplish what most prefer not to do, make uplifting music. His mantra simple, "Surround yourself with people that LIVE what you LOVE and not LOVE what you LIVE", his art metaphorical, "wondering if my space ship will clip heaven", Richie Acevedo now feels that he is ready to make his mark on the entertainment world.