Matt Duke是一個自學吉他成才的歌手。當他還是少年的時候，Matt Duke拿起吉他學習僅僅是為了能夠獲得女孩的芳心。在開始自己擺弄吉他之后，Duke體驗到音樂的魅力，于是和他的好朋友Brendan在一個咖啡廳里表演自己創作的歌曲。一開始他們的音樂非常之爛，但后來隨著經驗的積累，他們的音樂也越來越出色。《Kingdom Underground》是Duke在Rykodisc的第一張專輯，在此之前他還發行過《XYX》和《Winter Child》。 Matt Duke有著愛爾蘭天主教的宗教背景,他的音樂會讓聽者體味到前所未有的感覺,會給你意想不到的變化。時而懺悔，時而熱情洋溢，時而溫柔親切…… 　　在原聲吉他的伴奏下，Matt Duke溫柔親切的嗓音輕輕地唱著，讓人感受到歌者的那份純真與友善。 Philadelphia-based singer and songwriter Matt Duke was born and spent his childhood in South Jersey, where he began playing piano at the age of seven and taught himself guitar a couple of years later. Moving to Philadelphia for his high-school years, Duke began playing coffeehouses in the area and eventually recorded a handful of song demos that ended up on a compilation released by Drexel University's student-run Mad Dragon Records. Response to Duke's contributions to the project led to him recording a full-length album, Winter Child, tracked at Shinebox Studios in N.Y.C. and produced by Stewart Lerman, Stewart Smith, and Jim Klein, which was released by Mad Dragon in 2006 and distributed by Ryko. A sophomore album, Kingdom Underground, also distributed by Ryko, appeared in 2008.