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Adam King Feeney (born September 12, 1983), better known as Ging and by his former stage name Frank Dukes, is a Canadian musician, record producer, and songwriter. A prolific producer, he has worked with artists including
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"). Following a two decade production career, he retired as Frank Dukes in 2021 to pursue his own music and art as Ging; he released his debut solo album ''We're Here, My Dear'' in 2022. In his early career, Feeney established himself as a producer by working with a number of members of
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as well as young Toronto talent like
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. He came to prominence in the 2010s as a composer and
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whose work was utilized by prominent record producers to sample in their own productions; many of his samples have been used in songs for major artists including
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(with Feeneys' major placement, " 0 to 100"), Travis Scott,
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, with some drawing from the Kingsway Music Library, a popular
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library which he has run since 2011. Feeney has helped produce over thirty platinum singles since 2014. Among other awards and nominations, Feeneys' work has won three Grammy Awards from 32 nominations. He is considered one of Canada's top producers having been awarded Songwriter of the Year by
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four times and has received similar honors from BMI, the Juno Awards, ''Variety'', and
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.


Early life

Adam King Feeney was born on September 12, 1983, in
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,
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, Canada, and was raised in the city's northern suburb of Thornhill. His first exposure to creating music was piano lessons at age five; however, he quit lessons after three years due to losing interest in it. He later taught himself to play
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, bass and drums. As a teenager, he spent a lot of time skateboarding and gained more interest in music, particularly New York hip hop, becoming a DJ at 15 years old. In 1999, at age 16, Feeney began collecting records from the 1960s and 1970s in an effort to understand how they were made. This habit got him into record production and he bought an MPC the following year. He graduated from St. Robert Catholic High School in Thornhill in 2001. Feeney has stated that he had no intention to make music his profession.


Career


2000s: Early career and first placements

Feeney began producing music seriously in the early 2000s. He chose the stage name Frank Dukes as a teenager, inspired by the character of
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in the martial arts film ''Bloodsport'', and competed in a number of local DJ contents. His first production credit was a 2003 remix for Philadelphia rapper
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and he later had his first paid placement with a Toronto artist named General Too Smooth. In 2005, he connected with Toronto-based music manager Mo' Jointz who found Duke placements with Toronto and New York-area hip hop artists, including Slaughterhouse's Joell Ortiz,
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. Feeney was one of the first producers to work with
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, producing the track "Money" off his debut mixtape '' Room for Improvement'', released in 2006. Feeney relationship with producer
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, who would become one of the in-house producers for Drake's
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label, has led to many collaborations for Drake since this time. In 2008 and 2009, he took part in the Red Bull Big Tune producer competition; at these events, he connected with a number of artists and their A&R, most notably
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,
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's
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. In the late 2000s, Feeney would produce a number of tracks for G-Unit rappers
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and 50 Cent. This included his first paid placement for a major artist, the song "Sooner or Later (Die 1 Day)" on Banks' third
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'' H.F.M. 2 (The Hunger for More 2)'', for which Feeney was $5,000 paid in 2008, among other tracks released years later.


2010s: Sample innovator and acclaim

Creative relationships and album production At the end of the 2000s, Feeney connected with Wu-Tang member
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, producing three tracks for his 2010 album '' Apollo Kids''. The two met after Feeney won the Red Bull Big Tune championship in 2009; Feeney had also given Ghost a beat tape the previous year. Feeney performed as his and
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's tour DJ; active as a DJ in Toronto, Feeney also played sets during their tour as well as at the 2010
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in New York City. This relationship led to a series of Wu-Tang-related collaborations over the following five years, including producing more than half the tracks for the RZA-produced ''The Man with the Iron Fists'' album in 2012. He also worked on his own unreleased album, collaborating with
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and Willie the Kid, among others. During the same period, Feeney met the Canadian hip hop/jazz group
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at their first live show in 2011. Feeney and the group became close collaborators, even sharing a studio for many years; the band members play on many of the samples Feeney produced during the decade and, in turn, Feeney produced their first original album '' III'', released in 2014. Feeney' work with Ghostface and BBNG culminated in their shared 2015 record, '' Sour Soul''. Kingsway Music Library and sample composition During the first half of the decade, Feeney began writing music that he could use and manipulate as samples in his own work, much like the traditional record sampling he took part in as a hip hop producer. Inspired in part by his experiences working in 2010/2011 with the
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, a contemporary funk and soul ensemble that employ vintage recording techniques (and achieve the 1960s/1970s sound and style so often sought after in hip hop samples), Feeney began recording his compositions similarly, using vintage and analog equipment. Observing the
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issues and poor royalty splits he experienced while working with 50 Cent and Ghostface, Feeney had the idea of using his body of work as samples for other record producers to use, much like the traditional
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model, and began sharing his work with the likes of
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,
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, and
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; beginning in 2013, he packaged a portion of his compositions into various volumes for a collection titled Kingsway Music Library which he sells with the clearance of his samples guaranteed. This sample production work created acclaim for Feeney in 2014 when a composition he wrote was given to Boi-1da and flipped into the
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single " 0 to 100." From this point forward, he was inspired to grow Kingsway Music Library into an established platform for original music for sampling. He continues to distribute a limited amount of his music this way and invites up-and-coming musicians to collaborate or contribute whole volumes to his platform. In 2019, he spearheaded a collaboration between Kingsway Music Library and Toronto's Regent Park School of Music. Called ''Parkscapes'', all tracks are performed by students of the music program, and all proceeds, including licensing and royalty payments, help fund the school's programs. As of 2021, Feeney has personally released fifteen volumes of music through Kingsway. His compositions, including those designated for Kingsway Music, have led to him working with record producers such as
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,
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,
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,
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, and more, landing him prominent placements for
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, Mac Miller,
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,
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,
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,
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and Rihanna, among others. Hitmaker Feeney began growing in notability in 2013/2014 and started working more often with major artists in the studio. He met producer
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and
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in 2015–2016 and worked on tracks for Post Malone's debut album '' Stoney'' (including "
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"); Feeney also worked extensively on Post's 2019 album ''
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''. In 2017, he produced a string of singles for
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and Blonded Radio (" Chanel", " Biking", "Lens"). In 2018, three albums that Feeney executive produced were released: the debut solo album of frequent collaborator Matty from
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;
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's ''
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'' EP, which included the single "
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"; and
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's debut album '' Camila''. Feeney met Cabello in November 2016, beginning what would be her debut album. Notably, he produced her wildly successful single "
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." During this period until around 2020, he was represented by Electric Feel Management. In total, Feeney was a credited producer or songwriter on over 300 tracks during the decade, including multiple tracks for artists Mac Miller,
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,
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, Lorde, and Travis Scott, among others. By the end of the decade, he was generally considered one of the top producers/songwriters; he was also named or nominated as Songwriter of the Year by multiple music industry organizations including BMI,
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, the Juno Awards, and the
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.


2020s: New ventures as Ging

Into the 2020s, Feeney continued to work with artists like
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and
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in addition to producing a number of tracks for
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and
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. Throughout 2020, he worked with Canadian artist
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(who had previously co-written a number of pop hits with Feeney) on his debut album ''
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'', released May 2021; the album was short-listed for Canada's 2021 Polaris Music Prize. His collaborations with Rosalía were released in March 2022 on her album ''
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''. In March 2022, he was named the world's fifth most successful producer by
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, which considered a number of factors in their metric for the previous twelve months. He followed
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,
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, Mike Dean, and
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. In September 2021, he partnered with
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on which he distributes hundreds of masters and stems. The following month, Feeney announced The Prince, a signature synths plug-in, created with the software company Cradle. On November 16, 2021, Feeney released his beat tape ''The Ghost of Ging''. The album was released as
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and available to stream on SoundCloud for one week; it was later released on streaming services. Three days later, he announced his retirement as Frank Feeney on social media. He indicated that he would continue working on new music projects under the name of Ging (a variation of his middle name King). Since that time, he has released
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and art and has been vocal about artistic innovation like the use of
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. In 2022, he began releasing and performing his original studio music. His debut album ''We’re Here, My Dear'' was be released in November 2022.


Style

During his early career, Feeney worked within the
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and
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sound, with some contemporary and progressive influences. In the early 2010s, he embraced a more retro analog sound which has since evolved into his oft-imitated eclectic and effects-heavy style. ''SPIN'' noted that Feeney' production aesthetic is informed by 'shimmering pop nostalgia' and the 'luxurious hollows' of the New Toronto sound and inspired by disparate genres. On his writing style,
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observed, "Frank Feeney likes weird chord progressions. He doesn't like anything to sound clean or normal." Feeney is known for achieving his sound through live instrumentation and analog equipment. To achieve this, he often collaborates with an informal group of Toronto-based musicians and songwriters which includes
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, Kaan Güneşberk, and the members of instrumental group
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; Feeney and the band shared an analog recording studio in Toronto for much of the 2010s. At times, he has also written music for other artists with fellow
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nians
Daniel Caesar Ashton Dumar Norwill Simmonds (born April 5, 1995), known professionally as Daniel Caesar, is a Canadian singer and songwriter. After independently building a following through the release of two critically acclaimed EPs, ''Praise Break'' (201 ...
,
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, and Charlotte Day Wilson, as well as with New York-based retro soul musicians
Thomas Brenneck Thomas "Tommy" Brenneck is an American guitarist, record producer, and engineer. He became known as the leader of the Menahan Street Band and a member of The Budos Band, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, and El Michels Affair. He is the founder of ...
and Homer Steinwiess; of note, Feeney and Steinweiss formed a short-lived production duo under the name Silver & Gold and worked with a number of New York soul and funk artists in the early 2010s. Outside of this group, Feeney has frequently collaborated with producers
Louis Bell Louis Russell Bell (born May 27, 1982) is an American record producer, vocal producer, songwriter, and mixing engineer. Bell's work includes production for Post Malone, Camila Cabello, Halsey, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, 5 Seconds of Summer, ...
,
Boi-1da Matthew Jehu Samuels (born October 12, 1986), known professionally as Boi-1da ( , a play on "boy wonder"), is a Jamaican-Canadian Record production, record producer and songwriter based in Toronto, Ontario. The Toronto raised producer has work ...
,
Vinylz Anderson Hernandez (born September 2, 1989),Rys, Dan (July 11, 2013)"‘Magna Carta Holy Grail’ Behind The Scenes: Five Producers Who Helped Craft The Album". '' XXL''. Accessed on July 11, 2013. professionally known as Vinylz, is an American ...
, and
Metro Boomin Leland Tyler Wayne (born September 16, 1993), professionally known as Metro Boomin, is an American record producer, record executive, beatmaker, and DJ. He is known for his dark production style and its influence on modern hip hop and trap. ...
, among others.


Personal life

Feeney has two sons. He resides in
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,
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, having moved from Mississauga,
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.


Discography

* ''We're Here, My Dear'' (2022)


Notable production credits

Singles certified RIAA Platinum *
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" (2014) *
Jeremih Jeremy Phillip Felton (born July 17, 1987), known professionally as Jeremih ( ), is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. In 2009, he signed a record deal with Def Jam Recordings. Jeremih's commercial debut single, "Birthday Sex", ...
– "
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" feat. J. Cole (2015) * Drake & Future – " Diamonds Dancing" (2015) * Drake – "
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" (2015) * Drake – " Right Hand" (2015) * Rihanna – "
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" (2016) *
Kanye West Ye ( ; born Kanye Omari West ; June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer. Born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, West gained recognition as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records in the ea ...
– " Real Friends" (2016) * J. Cole – "
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" (2016) *
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& Travis Scott – " Pick Up the Phone" (2016) *
Post Malone Austin Richard Post (born July 4, 1995), known professionally as Post Malone, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Known for his variegated vocals, Malone has gained acclaim for blending genres and subgenres of hip ...
– "
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" feat.
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(2016) * Post Malone – "
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" (2016) * Drake – " Fake Love" (2016) *
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– " Chanel" (2017) * Drake – " Blem" (2017) * Lorde – " Green Light" * Lorde –"
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" (Remix) feat.
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and SZA (2017) *
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" (2017) *
Camila Cabello Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao (; ; born March 3, 1997) is a Cuban-born American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence as a member of the girl group Fifth Harmony, which became one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. While in ...
– "
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" (2017) * Camila Cabello – " Never Be the Same" (2017) *
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& The Weeknd – " Pray for Me" (2017) * Cardi B – "
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" (2018) * The Weeknd – "
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" (2018) * The Weeknd – " Wasted Time" (2018) * Rich the Kid – " Splashin" (2018) * Post Malone – "
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– " Con Altura" feat.
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(2019) *
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– "
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" (2019) * Camila Cabello – " My Oh My" feat.
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(2020) Albums executive produced *
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– '' III'' (2014) * BADBADNOTGOOD &
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– '' Sour Soul'' (2015) *
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– '' Camila'' (2018); peaked at No. 1 (US
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– ''
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'' (2018); peaked at No. 1 (US Billboard 200) * Matty (of BADBADNOTGOOD) – ''Déjàvu'' (2018) *
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– ''
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Awards and nominations


ASCAP Awards

ASCAP The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadca ...
hosts a series of annual awards which honor achievement in American songwriting, composition, and publishing. Feeney has received honors at ASCAP's Pop Music, Latin, and Rhythm & Soul Awards ceremonies.


BMI Awards

BMI hosts a series of annual awards which honor achievements by songwriters, composers, and publishers, based on tracks performance time. Feeney has received honors at ASCAP's Pop, R&B/Hip-Hop, and London Awards ceremonies.


Grammy Awards

Feeney' work has been included in the
Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pres ...
nominations every year since 2015. From 32 nominations, he has won three awards; all of his wins are for singular production credits on an awarded album. The following works are for his role ''as producer'' unless otherwise noted. Grammy Certificate-eligible contributions as per award category specifications on contribution playing time.


iHeartRadio Music Awards

The
iHeartRadio Music Awards The iHeartRadio Music Awards is a music awards show that celebrates music heard throughout the year across iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide and on iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia's digital music platform. Founded by iHeartRadio in 2014, the ev ...
is an annual awards that honors music played across American radio.


Juno Awards

The Juno Awards are Canada's most popular music industry awards. As per Juno regulations, performing producers and songwriters do not receive honors for their nominated work. As such, Feeney has one nomination.


Latin Grammy Awards

Feeney has received six nominations and three awards at the
Latin Grammy Awards The Latin Grammy Awards are an award by The Latin Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the Latin music industry. The Latin Grammy honors works recorded in Spanish or Portuguese from anywhere around the world that has been ...
.


Red Bull Big Tune

The Red Bull Big Tune competition is an annual series in which hip hop producers battle head-to-head, much like DJ competitions. Feeney competed from 2007 to 2009, at which point he was crowned the national champion. * 2008: Red Bull Big Tune – Detroit Runner Up * 2008: Red Bull Big Tune Finals Runner Up * 2009: Red Bull Big Tune – Detroit Runner Up * 2009: Red Bull Big Tune Finals Champion


SOCAN Awards

The
SOCAN The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is a Canadian performance rights organization that represents the performing rights of more than 135,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers. The organization collects ...
Awards are Canadian music industry awards, honoring achievement of its members in songwriting, composing, and publishing. Feeney has thrice been awarded Songwriter of the Year.


Other accolades

Notes


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dukes, Frank 1983 births Living people Canadian record producers Canadian songwriters Canadian hip hop DJs Latin Grammy Award winners Musicians from Toronto Canadian hip hop record producers Canadian musicians of Filipino descent