DUKE OF PEARL

After one semester at St. Joseph’s University, Matt Duke quit school to play music. Ironically it was a school— Drexel University—that launched his career. The student-run label MAD Dragon Records included four of Duke’s songs on XYX, a compilation with Trisha O’Keefe and Julia Othmer. “The compilation went to a distribution deal and MAD Dragon approached me to do a full-length record,” says Duke, whose debut, Winter Child, was released in 2006. Citing Pearl Jam, The Band and Jeremy Enigk (Sunny Day Real Estate) as influences, the 22-year-old singer/songwriter says, “I learned to play guitar thanks to Pearl Jam songs. They were the band I idolized and still do. It’s not that you can hear it in the music anymore necessarily, it’s just that I’ve been inspired by them my entire life. You start by playing songs that really mean something to you and ultimately that integrates into your style and your being.” www.mattdukemusic.net

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