Janevic and Long's path to that Lollapalooza stage began at age 17, when they met at Interlochen Arts Camp in northern ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus were in the same high school music class. Wil started with strings, and branched out to other instruments and vocals. Black Violin is what they've done ...

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 ...

This is something you won’t see every day at a concert billed as “classical”: a DJ working the turntables. Or a drummer banging out a solo in classic rock ‘n’ roll fashion, set against the backdrop of ...

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 and hip-hop — is bound to sound familiar from album to album. But violinist Kev Marcus sees a definite difference between ...