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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus were in the same high school music class. Wil started with strings, and branched out to other instruments and vocals. Black Violin is what they've done ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...