King Duke is made up of Derekh Froude and Benjamin Turner (or J-Amp and Tenjam...respectively). They met while going to college at The University of Arizona. After both of them graduated in May of 2003 (Derekh with degrees in Media Arts and Creative writing and Ben with a degree in Media Arts) the boys moved to New York City to pursue some sort of career(s). They now live in different parts of Brooklyn and occasionaly write genius acoustic pop songs.