Listen up, ladies! Today, we’re diving deep into the world of hip dips – that mysterious curve (or lack thereof) that you’ve ...

A golf game between middle school music teachers may have determined the existence of one of the most innovative musical duos performing today. Wil Baptiste and Kevin Sylvester are the ...

The Neil Diamond Musical' at the Hobby Center and the Aussie band Dice at White Oak Music Hall are also recommended.

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 ...

Named one of the hottest bands at South by Southwest, Black Violin comes to the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College with its "Classical Boom Tour" at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 27. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2018, I interviewed Wilner “Wil B” Baptiste of the classical crossover duo Black Violin. He acknowledged that, in 2004, when he and bandmate/childhood pal Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester founded the ...

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 ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A half-decade has passed since the last Black Violin album, "Give Thanks," dropped. But the unique ...