duKE

Under the name duKE, Mark Carson Adams has been developing since the mid-1990s a repertoire that sits between soul, house and dance music, driven by flexible vocal writing and productions rooted in deep house. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, duKE first made his mark with the single "So in Love with You" in 1994, a track that spawned several versions and whose house interpretation reached number one on the Billboard Dance Club Play chart in 1997, before "Greater" entered the same chart in 1998. His album The Ten Commandments of Love was released in 1995 and defined the contours of a sound combining soulful singing, club grooves and the melodic sensibility of British pop. During this period duKE also released "New Beginning" (1994), "Make Believeland" (1995), "Womanchild" (1997) and "Soul Sister Soul Brother" (2002). A singer, songwriter and producer, duKE’s trajectory sits at the crossroads of the British house scene and international club circuits, with an approach that keeps the voice central—closer to soul song than to electronic abstraction.