Percival Duke, a singer, composer, librettist and author, was born in Dallas, Texas. He was labeled a prodigy at the age of six.

Coming from a family with a physically and emotionally abusive background, he found himself building his own worlds in which he could escape.

After graduating high school at fifteen, Percival went to New York City where he honed in on his vocal and dance talents until he landed a role in his first Broadway show less than one year after his arrival.

Many hard life-lessons and a few perfomances later, he was off to Europe with a Broadway musiccal touring company. 

Thirty years, five studio albums, more than twenty Single, and several top TV shows later - including The Voice (Germany), Percival resides in Cologne and enjoys celebrity success the country as well as in Austria and Switzerland.

BLACK PICKET FENCE is his first novel. There others on their way.