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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When classically trained violinist Kev Marcus and violist Wil B. formed the hip-hop duo Black Violin 15 years ago, there were people who dismissed it as a novelty act. But by now, what some may have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hip Hop ViolinTavis Smiley interviews violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, whose music mixes classical composition with hip hop beats to create a whole new sound experience. For more ...

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 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 ...