Who Are the Members of Peking Duk?
Peking Duk is an Australian electronic music duo made up of Reuben Styles and Adam Hyde. The pair formed the group in Canberra in 2010 and have remained the only members of the band ever since.
The duo became widely known through dance hits such as “High” featuring Nicole Millar and “Say My Name.” Their energetic electronic style and festival performances helped establish them as one of Australia’s most recognizable EDM acts.
The Peking Duk lineup
Peking Duk has two members, and the lineup has not changed since the group began.
The band consists of:
- Adam Hyde – producer, songwriter, and performer
- Reuben Styles – producer, DJ, and songwriter
Both musicians collaborate on writing, producing, and performing the group’s music. Their partnership began in Canberra and developed into a long-running creative duo responsible for every major Peking Duk release.
Unlike many electronic acts that rotate collaborators or DJs, Peking Duk has always been built around the Hyde–Styles partnership. Featured vocalists often appear on individual songs, but the core band itself remains the same two members.
Who is in Peking Duk
Peking Duk is an Australian electronic music duo made up of Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles. For readers asking who the members of Peking Duk are now, the answer is still the same pair who formed the act in Canberra in 2010.
Both members are producers, performers, and songwriters. Over time, they built a strong profile in Australian dance music through festival appearances, club tracks, and crossover hits that reached a wider mainstream audience.
Their breakthrough came with “High” featuring Nicole Millar, which became one of the songs most closely associated with the group. Later singles such as “Say My Name” helped confirm that Peking Duk had an ongoing place in the Australian electronic music scene.
The duo has continued performing and releasing music for more than a decade. Even as both members explore other creative projects, Peking Duk remains an active partnership between Hyde and Styles.
How the name Peking Duk originated
The name Peking Duk is not connected to the well-known Chinese dish. Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles have explained that it began as a joke they used with friends before the duo ever released music.
The phrase came from a pun used during nights out. Hyde said that when someone reaches the most energetic moment of a party, they are “peaking.” At the same time, people sometimes pull exaggerated expressions that resemble a duck.
Among their friends this combination led to the phrase “peaking duck.” Hyde recalled that they would laugh and say someone “looked like a peaking duck” when their face scrunched up during a particularly wild moment.
When the pair eventually needed a name for their music project, they thought the phrase sounded memorable and funny. The spelling evolved into Peking Duk, and the playful joke eventually became the official name of the group.
Adam Hyde’s role in Peking Duk
Adam Hyde is one half of Peking Duk and one of the musicians most closely associated with the group’s sound. Raised in Canberra, he formed the duo with Reuben Styles and helped shape its rise in Australian electronic music.
Within Peking Duk, Hyde works as a songwriter, producer, and live performer. The duo built a reputation through energetic dance releases and festival appearances before breaking into the mainstream with songs such as “High” and “Say My Name.”
Outside the group Hyde has also developed a solo project under the name Keli Holiday. His music under that alias explores a different style while continuing alongside his work with Peking Duk.
The Keli Holiday single “Dancing2” reached number two in the Triple J Hottest 100 and helped introduce a new phase of Hyde’s career. He later followed it with the album Capital Fiction.
Adam Hyde’s background and personal life
Adam Hyde was born on 23 February 1990 in Canberra, Australia. He grew up in the city and later attended Dickson College, where a music teacher named John Tucker encouraged him to pursue music seriously, something Hyde later credited as an important turning point in his life.
Hyde has described how Tucker believed in him and his friends even when they were not typical students. That encouragement helped him imagine music not just as a hobby but as a possible career.
His career has since taken him from local Canberra venues to international stages, including major festivals such as Coachella and Lollapalooza.
In his personal life Hyde is in a relationship with Australian media personality Abbie Chatfield. The two first met in 2022 when she interviewed Peking Duk on her radio show Hot Nights. They connected more seriously about a year later after Chatfield saw Hyde perform in Brisbane, leading to a poolside conversation that eventually led to their relationship becoming public in 2024.
Reuben Styles and the formation of Peking Duk
Reuben Styles is one half of Peking Duk and helped form the duo with Adam Hyde in Canberra. The pair eventually created one of Australia’s most successful electronic acts, but their partnership began much earlier when they were teenagers exploring music together.
They became fascinated with electronic music after hearing artists such as Justice and The Bloody Beetroots and began experimenting with production software. What started as curiosity gradually developed into a serious creative partnership.
By 2010 Hyde and Styles had committed to making music together full time, leading to the birth of Peking Duk and the early releases that would later build their reputation on the Australian festival circuit.
Reuben Styles’ Canberra upbringing
Reuben Styles was born in 1989 and grew up in Canberra’s inner north. Music was part of everyday life in his household, largely because both of his parents were musicians.
His father studied jazz at the Canberra School of Music and played guitar in a jazz band, exposing Styles to artists such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Charlie Parker. His mother also wrote songs and played instruments, leaning more toward folk and singer-songwriter styles.
His parents separated when he was young and he mostly grew up with his mother, but both parents influenced his musical taste. The combination of jazz, folk, and later electronic music helped shape the broad musical background that eventually fed into the sound of Peking Duk.
Early musical influences and school years
Before electronic music became his focus, Styles was involved in music through school. As a teenager he played clarinet in his high school concert band and spent time performing in school ensembles.
He attended school in the Dickson area of Canberra, where music classes and band rehearsals formed a major part of his teenage life. At that stage his musical experience was centred on traditional instruments rather than digital production.
This changed later in his teens when he and Adam Hyde discovered electronic artists such as Justice and The Bloody Beetroots. The energy of that music pushed them toward production software and home recording, eventually setting the path that led to Peking Duk.
Mental health and the pressures of success
After Peking Duk achieved major success with songs such as “High,” Styles has spoken openly about the pressure that followed. The expectation to produce another hit sometimes made writing sessions feel stressful rather than creative.
He has also discussed the role of social media in modern music careers. Constant online attention and feedback can create additional pressure for artists who are trying to focus on making new music.
To maintain balance, Styles emphasizes the importance of stepping away from social media, exercising, and maintaining routines outside music. Those habits help him stay grounded while continuing to perform and write.
Source: Interview with Reuben Styles on the Hot Dub Time Machine podcast, “HDTM: Radio Ep1 – Peking Duk (Reuben Styles)”.