Biography
His unmatched accomplishment of claiming the calypso Monarchy on four successive occasions marks him as a legendary calypsonian. Duke ranks among the foremost names in the genre, and each of his album releases continues to draw attention. He reliably supplies a festive soca entry for the Road March contest yet has taken the prize just once, doing so in 1987 with "Is Thunder." The range of his material stretches from celebratory lyrics to worldwide topics, with only infrequent nods to matters of strictly local interest.