When you think of classical music, chances are you don’t often think of an underlying hip-hop beat. That's where two musicians, Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus come in. The pair has been blending hip-hop ...

A half-decade has passed since the last Black Violin album, "Give Thanks," dropped. But the unique violin and viola playing hip-hop duo, finally finished the follow-up, "Full Circle," which will be ...

Mapy is a proud hip-hop violinist who recently performed with Rick Ross and Orchestra Noir, under the direction of Maestro Jason Ikeem Rodgers. The collective brought the house down at Atlanta ...

Black Violin, Kev Marcus (left) and Wil Baptiste, are celebrating 20 years of blending hip hop and classical. Its Full Circle Tour will make a stop at the Schuster Center on Oct. 10. CONTRIBUTED Black ...

The viola player/vocalist and violinist, respectively, behind the Grammy-nominated fusion group Black Violin began playing together in the 1990s, during their days at the Dillard High School of the ...

Classically trained violist Wil B. (Wilner Baptiste, left) and violinist Kev Marcus (Kevin Sylvester), better known as Black Violin, will bring their “Classical Boom” tour to the Fraze Pavilion on ...

In the sprawling landscape of contemporary music, where genre boundaries increasingly blur into irrelevance, Black Violin emerges as something genuinely exceptional—a classical-meets-hip-hop ...

Brothers Tourie and Damien Escobar were just young boys when they began earning money by playing the violin on New York's subways. While attending Julliard School of Music, they started incorporating ...

The classical and hip-hop fusion duo Black Violin has quite a list of musical accomplishments. They’ve performed with Alicia Keys, toured with Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park and played for former First ...

Two-time Grammy nominated duo Black Violin, Kev Marcus and Wil Baptiste, return to mid-Michigan for a performance at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, at the Wharton Center in East Lansing. The duo fuses ...