Classically trained string players Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus, better known as Black Violin, are fresh off a sold-out show at the Kennedy Center, but you still have your chance to catch their ...

The pair of Black artists, from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., grew up loving R&B and hip-hop, but a chance school course schedule landed them in a music appreciation class and introduced them to artists ...

Black Violin's Wil Baptiste blends hip-hop and classical to transform how we experience string music.

Sylvester, meanwhile, was learning violin. The pair had long been hip-hop fans before they discovered classical music, gravitating toward stars of the era such as Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G.

Black Violin, a musical duo blending classical music with hip-hop, is playing Playhouse Square in Clevleand on March 23 ...

Using their classical music background to bend genres, brothers Malcolm and Umoja McNeish from Broward County energize audiences as the Sons of Mystro. Together, they wield their violin bows to ...

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 ...