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 ...

Black Violin’s Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus know they’re unexpected. Black Violin, Wil Baptiste (left) and Kev Marcus “We’re two black guys playing violin,” says Baptiste. “If you saw me right now ...

Check it out. Classical meets hip-hop. Two classically trained violin virtuosos mate their strings with some sizzling hip-hop, funk and jazz to produce a signature sound somewhere between Bach and ...

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 ...