Keith Duke studied music at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and taught music in secondary schools for twenty-five years. He held appointments as Organist and Choir Director in a number of churches before meeting David Adam, the priest-poet of Lindisfarne. Immediately attracted to David's texts as a 'whole new way of seeing my Christian faith', he has since worked closely with him on Lindisfarne to develop a style of song that is idiomatic to that holy place.