BIOGRAPHY
George Duke was an American musician, known as a pioneer of the keyboard, composer, singer-songwriter, and producer in the genres of jazz and popular music. He worked with numerous artists as arranger, musical director, writer, and co-writer, record producer, and sound engineer. He gained recognition with the album The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio. He was best known for three decades of solo albums, including A Brazilian Love Affair (1979) and Follow the Rainbow (1981) being the most popular, for his collaborations with other musicians such as Frank Zappa, Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham, Miles Davis, Anita Baker, Jeffrey Osborne, Smokey Robinson, Ringo Starr, Donna Summer, and Barbra Streisand, and for his work as a bandleader with his group, the George Duke Band. Duke won a total of seven Grammy Awards.