Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A golf game between middle school music teachers may have determined the existence of one of the most innovative musical duos ...

Any music act with a unique sound — such as Black Violin’s fusion of classical music and hip-hop — is bound to sound familiar from album to album. But violinist Kev Marcus has no problem seeing a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With how stale hip-hop music can be sometimes, Black Violin has breathed fresh life into the genre. Continuing their successful Classical Boom Tour in 2018-2019, as a follow up to the 2016-2017 UNITY ...

Kevin Marcus and Wil Baptiste of Black Violin want to shatter classical music stereotypes. “We play violins but we don’t look like violinists and we always just try to lean into that. The reason we’ve ...

The violin was mainly associated with classical, folk and bluegrass music until the Fort Lauderdale duo of Kev Marcus and Wil B. broke new ground by incorporating hip-hop elements when they formed ...