Listen up, ladies! Today, we’re diving deep into the world of hip dips – that mysterious curve (or lack thereof) that you’ve been obsessing over for months. FYI, they’re totally normal, and you’re ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Black Violin is the modern incarnation of that simple, but constant, drive to perform. “It’s hard to come from humble beginnings, so when they offer to pay, you to come,” says violinist Kev Murphy. “I ...

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 ...

Black Violin, the sting instrument-wielding hip-hop duo, will close out its Black Violin Experience Tour with a performance in Dayton this fall. The duo will play the Schuster Center on Tuesday, Oct.