Music has a profound influence that touches us in ways that words do not. dukew’s music does just that, creating moods befitting all facets of life. His passion for music goes back to his first lessons at age five. Then, at age 11, dukew began writing music. His first band, called “Untamed,” a hard rock/R&B/soul outfit founded in the late 60s, opened for international recording artists like Stevie Wonder, the Ohio Players, Gladys Knight & the Pips, the Sylvers, Curtis Mayfield and Parliament-Funkadelic, to name just a few.

Fast forward to the 90s and many years of endless creativity for dukew. Today, writing music comes so easy to him that dukew can hardly get the melodies in his head down on paper fast enough. His music is ever-evolving from more traditional musical sounds into a wider genre of jazz-fusion he calls g’eeazzma.

Today, dukew’s musical repertoire weighs in at a few hundred songs, spanning jazz, R&B, hip-hop, dance and soft ambient musical expressions. He writes, mixes and creates on a near-daily basis. His two biggest musical influences are George Duke and Billy Cobham. Sometimes spontaneously, sometimes with great deliberation, dukew’s g’eeazzma music flows from soul to soundboard with musical ingenuity that is hard to match.