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 ...

Challenging stereotypes and preconceived notions one note at a time. That’s what Black Violin’s classical rigor and adrenaline-charged hip-hop will do when the act returns to Playhouse Square for a ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — For Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus, merging the sounds of classical music and hip-hop just came naturally. The viola player/vocalist and violinist, respectively, behind the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EAU CLAIRE — Black Violin excels in combining classical music and hip-hop, two genres that at first glance do not seem at all ...

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 ...

Black Violin's Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus met on the first day of orchestra class in 1996 at Dillard High School of the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Classically trained by day, they ...

This is something you won’t see every day at a concert billed as “classical”: a DJ working the turntables. Or a drummer banging out a solo in classic rock ‘n’ roll fashion, set against the backdrop of ...

The Grammy-nominated duo of musical artists that make up Black Violin is coming to the Palace Theatre in Albany. Kev Marcus and Wil Baptiste have been blending the hip-hop and classical genres to the ...

This video shows a classical violinist surprising people on Omegle by performing hip-hop music on the violin. At first, the musician appears like a typical classical performer, which leads viewers to ...

Bodo Vosshenrich, a master violin maker in France, creates distinct instruments for today's musicians. He dares a novel electro-acoustic approach to the violin, destined for the new generation of ...

In the second grade, Malcolm McNeish picked up the violin at Bethune Elementary School in Hollywood for the chance to go on field trips to Disney World and Busch Gardens. His brother Umoja saw him ...