PERC!VAL

Bio:

Perc!val (Percy Duke) was born in Dallas, Texas and graduated from Dallas Arts Magnet High School with classmates like Erykha Badu, Nora Jones, Roy Hargove and Edie Brickell.

After graduation he went to New York and did several Broadway shows including CATS and the showcase version of THE LIFE where Composing legend, Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity, City of Angels) wrote a song for him.

Perc!val’s European credits include many television appearances on TV TOTAL and Harald Schmidt as backing vocalist for the visiting stars. He has done backing vocals for Robbie Williams, Chaka Khan, Robert Palmer, Michael Jackson, Curtis Steigers, Jule Neigel, Cher, Anastasia among many others. Percy did support for Alanis Morissette, Lauren Hill, Bryan Adams and Skunk Anansie.

Now Solo, Perc!val has had a couple of bands and many live performances throughout Europe including London, Stockholm, Paris, Rome and all over the German Republic.

He was hailed by TIME OUT magazine (London) as the Singer/Songwriter of the year in 2007; By Prinz Zeitung (Cologne) as the Best Singer in the land; Sonic Magazine (Sweden ) has already dubbed him the next Big Thing; and Hamburger Morgenpost ‘the best performer Hamburg has ever seen’.

Also a songwriter, Perc!val, has worked with Xavier Naidoo, Rui Veloso, Lucie Silvas, Stefano Maggio and many Swedish and English producers on pop songs for various artists. He is presently in negotiations for his songwriting as well as his own music.

He began working professionally as a child at the tender age of six after he heard children’s choir singing on a McDonald’s commercial and promptly told his parents that he could do better, which he proved over and over again in several TV commercials and stage performances later.

Perc!val’s style is unlike that of any other pop/rock singer today because he has been influenced and successfully worked in other genres of music: Pop, Musical Theatre, Jazz and Blues and Funk and Soul. But he returned to what first influenced him which is the Rock world.

Perc!val, when not singing, spends a lot of his time writing film scripts, short stories and poetry. Coming from a family background of half American Indian (Cherokee) and half Black, he has a lot to say about society today in America and throughout the world he has, until now, been exposed to.

He is presently writing and co-writing material for his new Album in Rome and Stockholm and is working with some of the top names in the business.
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Member Since:

February 20, 2006

Influences:

Rickie Lee Jones, Gino Vanelli, Hendrix, Anita Baker, Led Zeppelin, Chaka Khan, The Who, Streisand, Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Phoebe Snow, David Bowie, Steely Dan, Terry Callier, Free, Aretha Franklin, Lynrd Skynrd, Queen, Journey, Donny Hathaway...and only a few others! PERCY DUKE, Lead Vocals

Sounds Like:

PERCIVAL!

Easily the best of the Rock singers in Germany! And surely one of the best in the world! Watch him! We will!
Hamburg Morgenpost, July, 2009

'Percy Duke is too special to be categorized! One of a kind! One of those few artists whose album (when it's done!) should be in every home!'
Time Out London, May, 2009

I was ready to applaud, before he sang, when he simply walked onstage as a guest in Angie's Nightclub! THEN I heard him sing for the first time! It will not be the last!
Hamburg Morgenpost, March 2008

It's like SEAL but younger, stronger, faster and BETTER! MUCH better!!
Sonic Magazine, Sweden, January 2008

There is no other voice like this, and it must be heard! There is no other personae like this, and it must be seen!!
BILD Zeitung, Hamburg, January 2008

Time for the 'BIG TIME' for this young man! He is going to be HUGE!!!
SONIC Magazine, Sweden, November 2007

What is wrong with record companies these days when I have to see someone on PERCIVAL's level sing in a tiny bar? This man is stadium material all the way!!
Per Svenningsson, NYLON Magazine, Sweden, July 2007

Time Out London's ‘Unsigned Singer of the Year, 2006’

'Percy Duke has got to be the best singer in Germany!!'
Koelner Prinz, 2006

‘Percy Duke is unrivaled as a singer/performer! This kind of energy and passion hasn’t been seen since the likes of Hendrix, Joplin or even Prince!’
Dave Stewart, Eurythmics, BBC Radio 1, Nov., 2006

"A hipswinging, singing Motherfucker!" Chaka Khan

‘The songwriting ability of [Percy] makes me shiver with excitement! Subjects people are afraid to talk about are easily heard through his magnificent vocal instrument! What a singer! I want the album! Everybody's going to want this album!’
Burt Wardell, Q Magazine, April., 2007

'Simply WILD! And I want more!!!'
Jeremy Winthrope, London Times Sunday Magazine, April, 2007

'Percy Duke can do anything with his voice! Up to and including bringing tingles to the tingles up my spine!'
Celia Layton, London Review, May 2007