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i Stereotypes

ii Invisible

three Another Risk

4 Addiction

5 Shaker

6 Send Me A Sign

vii Walk On By

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9 Magic

10 Stay Articulate

xi Losing Control

12 Runnin

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Wilner "Wil B" Baptiste (viola) and Kevin "Kev" Marcus Sylvester (violin) are Blackness Violin, a duo who radically fuse hip-hop and pop with classical music to create a kaleidoscope of sounds uniquely their own.  Classically trained musicians, they take opened for such diverse top names in music equally Kanye West, 50 Cent, Aerosmith and Tom Fiddling, and also creatively collaborated with the likes of Wu-Tang Clan, Linkin Park, Wyclef Jean and Alicia Keys, the latter for the Billboard Music Awards. Gear up for release on September 18 on Universal Music Classics, their major label debut was produced by Eli Wolf (The Roots & Elvis Costello, Norah Jones).

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• Blackness Violin, set for Academy of Georgia's Hodgson Hall / Online Athens

  Led by violist Wil B. and violinist Kev Marcus, Black Violin blends classical and hip-hop music to overcome stereotypes. The classically trained strings players are joined onstage by DJ SPS and drummer Nat Stokes in a high-energy concert that encourages people of all backgrounds to come together to break down cultural barriers. Black Violin has collaborated with artists such every bit Aerosmith, Tom Petty, ...

  

  

• Black Violin plays Saratoga Springs - students-merely performance prior to 'SavingsBank' show / Troy Record

  Posted At: Apr 13, 2018 12:00 AM

  Black Violin is bringing its Classical Boom Tour to the Collar City tonight, post-obit another local students-only operation earlier this week. On Monday the Florida-based duo, known for its unique alloy of pop and classical music, performed a high-energy set up to near 2,000 students at Saratoga Springs Loftier School as part of Saratoga Performing Arts Center's education program. Today, Friday April 13, m...

  

  

• Bach meets Biggie at Strauss Square / TheaterJones

  Posted At: March xv, 2018 12:00 AM

  "Inspiring," "uplifting," and "proud" were frequent words that came to the lips of the polled patrons following Fri evening's concert of Black Violin on the Strauss Square phase in the Dallas Arts Commune, presented by AT&T Performing Arts Center. The classical/hip-hop crossover deed brought a large and diverse crowd with an unusual start time of 9:45 p.m., assuasive some of the more than eclectically i...

  

  

• Black Violin will 'classical boom' in Dallas

  Posted At: March 2, 2018 12:00 AM

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} Black Violin is equanimous of classically trained violist and violinist Wil B. and Kev Marcus who combine their classical training and and hip-hop influences to create a distinctive multi-genre audio that is often described equally "classical nail." The ring released their major label debut Stereotypes (featuring Black G...

  

  

• Blackness Violin and the Harlem Globetrotters. You've never seen heard Sweet Georgia Dark-brown similar this

  Posted At: February 27, 2018 12:00 AM

  Named after an album by swing era violinist Stuff Smith, Black Violin is a violin and viola-playing duo from Florida consisting of classically trained musicians Kevin Sylvester ("Kev Marcus") and Wilner Baptiste ("Wil B"), who comprise a diverseness of genres into their distinctive string fare. The pair met as loftier-schoolhouse students in a Fort Lauderdale, quickly gaining a reputation for their dynamic perfor...

  

  

• Black Violin set for AT&T Center / North Dallas Gazette

  Posted At: February nine, 2018 12:00 AM

  Defying 'StereoTypes' is in the Deoxyribonucleic acid of the hip-hop inspired classically trained duo called Blackness Violin, information technology was also the title of their major label debut. Wil B. and Kev Marcus combine their classical training every bit a violist and violinist with hip-hop influences to create a distinctive multi-genre sound that is often described as "classical blast." North Dallas Gazette readers have an opportunity to west...

  

  

• Blackness Violin - 'Live at the Kate' performance set to air on Connecticut Public Television set / theday

  Posted At: January xviii, 2018 12:00 AM

  Black Violin, the astonishing  Atlanta-based duo - Wil Baptiste and Kevin Sylvester will be appearing this Mon January 22, at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center - a performance being taped for future telecast by Connecticut Public Tv. Both musicians are now violin virtuosos whose affection for and mastery of classical repertoire is substantial. At the same time, their love of rap has ...

  

  

• Black Violin set for Milwaukee's Marcus Center / WUWM Radio

  Posted At: October 26, 2017 12:00 AM

  Classical music tin have an elitist reputation. The conventional repertoire is based almost exclusively on the piece of work of western European white men, and the typical audiences for those works are largely older, and also white. Only the duo Black Violin (Violinist Kev Sylvester and violist Wil Baptiste) thinks the music of Bach is sublime and want to bring it to people who might not otherwise hear information technology. Th...

  

  

• Blackness Violin prepare for University of Denver show / FOX31

  Posted At: September 29, 2017 12:00 AM

  They say nigh people presume they are football game players, but their true love is the violin. The globe renowned duo "Blackness Violin" is bringing people together through music, combining classical violin with the excitement and fun of hip hop. Performer Volition B. Baptiste says their message is all nearly positivity. "With what's going on in our state, our shows are very diverse, very inclusive so our music ...

  

  

• Black Violin maps out 'Classical Nail' tour / AXS

  Posted At: Baronial 25, 2017 12:00 AM

  Blackness Violin recently kicked off their Classical Boom tour, which takes it's name from the phrase used to describe the group'south unique blend of classical music with hip-hop beats and rhythms. Black Violin are touring in back up of their latest album Stereotypes, still, the duo said in a argument that they are currently working on their adjacent studio album set for release in 2018.  Here are the 2017-...

  

  

• Black Violin set for MV concert series / Vineyard Gazette

  Posted At: August 21, 2017 12:00 AM

  Wilner Baptiste and Kevin Sylvester never intended to be headliners. Though they're scheduled to raise the roof of the Performing Arts Center next Wednesday, the duo, who are known on phase as Black Violin, originally hoped to achieve fame behind the scenes. "We just started dreaming, you know, just thinking of ourselves as major producers," Mr. Baptiste said in a phone call with the Gazette. "And we wer...

  

  

• Blackness Violin fix for - 'Music for All' summertime symposium

  Posted At: June 29, 2017 12:00 AM

  Black Violin have been perfecting their blend of hip-hop beats, with classical music instrumentation for e'er a decade, just the grouping'south founding members go dorsum even further. Violist Wil B met violinist Kev Marcus while both were attending the Dillard High Schoolhouse of Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The pair'due south unique musical bond has been growing exponentially over the years. To date Blac...

  

  

• Black Violin brings classical music to DCJazzFest / AFRO review

  Posted At: June 22, 2017 12:00 AM

  The cool breeze off the Potomac River convinced the crowds at this year's D.C. Jazz Festival from June 9-18 to dance – even equally the temperatures crossed 90 degrees – equally before long as "Kev Marcus" Sylvester and Wilmer Baptiste striking the phase.  Known as Black Violin, Sylvester and Baptiste have plant and perfected a meticulous mix of classical music with hip-hop, likewise every bit jazz, soul, R&B, ro...

  

  

• Dorsum by popular demand, Blackness Violin returns to Lied Center / Kansas Public Radio

  Posted At: May ten, 2017 12:00 AM

  Due to popular need, the Lied Center is bringing back a favorite on Friday, September 22, 2017. "Blackness Violin was absolutely amazing last nighttime!!! They filled up the Lied auditorium and captivated the audience with their talent and amuse. A truly inspiring group of young men breaking stereotypes and proving that one tin can do annihilation once they put their minds to it," said a Lied Center patron afterward t...

  

  

• Black Violin play Red Room / The Berklee Groove

  Posted At: April 25, 2017 12:00 AM

  Black Violin performed 2 sold out shows at Berklee'due south Cherry Room at Café 939 on Saturday, Apr 22nd. They are currently on their "Unity" bout where the duo is joined past a drummer and DJ SPS. I could conspicuously come across Black Violin's message at work by taking a await at the audience. The diverseness in historic period and ethnicity was evident and everyone was excited about what was to come. The show started with DJ SPS...

  

  

• Worlds collide at Black Violin concert in Tucson / Arizona Daily Star

  Posted At: Apr 14, 2017 12:00 AM

  Blackness Violin's Kev Marcus, left, warned the sold-out UA Presents audience Th night that they were in for more than a dark of violin music. He and violist Wil B had the Fox Tucson Theatre audience on its anxiety. "Some of you thought you were coming to a quiet evening of violin music," said Marcus - aka Kevin Sylvester - and a handful of people who knew better cheered along as if they were in on t...

  

  

• Black Violin keeps breaking stereotypes at Casa Manana / Fort Worth Star Telegram

  Posted At: April 12, 2017 12:00 AM

  It'southward not every night that yous become to hear a hip-hop DJ go to town on Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons." That was just i of the highlights of the performance past Black Violin, a combo rooted in classical music that shattered boundaries in its concert Friday at Casa Mañana. The band is made up of Kev Marcus on electrical violin, Wil B. playing a viola equipped with a pickup, drummer Jermaine McQueen ...

  

  

• Black Violin thrills at ABT / Billings Gazette

  Posted At: April three, 2017 12:00 AM

  Black Violin'due south performance Thursday night at the Alberta Bair Theater had a wildly enthusiastic oversupply on their feet, pumping arms in the air by the second vocal. The two pb musicians, Kev Marcus on electric violin and Will-B on viola, rocked to hard, information technology was similar they were blazing on electric guitars with flames shooting from them. A highlight was the improvisation where Marcus sawed back and along on hi...

  

  

• Billings welcomes Black Violin / Yellowstone Public Radio

  Posted At: March 25, 2017 12:00 AM

  Billings volition be welcoming a unique musical duo Black Violin, to the Alberta Bair Theater adjacent Thursday. The high-energy group is anything simply common, and bridges the divide betwixt hip-hop and classical music. The Miami Herald says the musical duo Black Violin "upends cultural and musical stereotypes," and these classically-trained string musicians will bring their inventive style to Billings next week ...

  

  

• Blackness Violin fix for Washington Centre / The Olympian

  Posted At: March 24, 2017 12:00 AM

  When Kevin "Kev Marcus" Sylvester picked up a violin, it was inappreciably love at first sight. Sylvester is the violin-playing half of the classical-meets-hip-hop duo Black Violin, playing Tuesday in Olympia. Equally many young musicians practise, he started on the violin at his mom'due south suggestion. He liked playing well enough and liked the friends he made in orchestra, but he didn't imagine making music his career. "I had...

  

  

• Blackness Violin fix for Due south Carolina'south Newberry Opera House / freetimes

  Posted At: March 22, 2017 12:00 AM

  Black Violin is set for Southward Carolina'due south Newberry Opera Firm, this Fri, Mar. 24. The classically trained Florida duo of Kevin Sylvester (violin) and Wilner Baptiste (viola) create truly hybrid music, fitting comfortably in neither hip-hop nor classical. But breaking basis wasn't the initial plan. "Honestly is was more about us becoming producers, incorporating what we knew from classical music a...

  

  

• Black Violin sells out Knight Theater / Charlotte Observer

  Posted At: March 16, 2017 12:00 AM

  Unclassifiable Black Violin keeps boot down musical walls. The name of the group, which comes to Knight Theater Tuesday and Wednesday, tells just part of the story. In the beginning place, only Kevin Sylvester (aka Kev Marcus) plays violin; Wilner Baptiste (known every bit Wil B) plays the slightly larger and deeper viola. In the second, they come with a band, including a drummer and DJ SPS on turntables. You ne...

  

  

• Black Violin engages at UWGB / WeAreGreenBay

  Posted At: March 14, 2017 12:00 AM

  A prove with Black Violin is to engage. Accept Sunday night at the Weidner Centre for the Performing Arts. After letting loose with the opening flare-up of "Stereotypes," Kev Marcus of the quartet passes on this notice: "Rule I, this is a party." The audience is expected to help fuel the action. Another "rule" is accept photographs and videos and share them. This is stuff that performing arts centers and copyr...

  

  

• Win tickets to Black Violin at Olympia's 'Washington Center' on 88.v KNKX

  Posted At: March 11, 2017 12:00 AM

  Win tickets on 88.5 KNKX Radio to Black Violin at Olympia'south Washington Center for the Performing Arts. on March 28. Named after an album by African-American preeminent jazz swing-era violinist Stuff Smith, Blackness Violin blends classical, hip-hop, stone, R&B, and bluegrass music. Accompanied past a drummer and a DJ, Wil Baptiste (viola) and Kev Marcus (violin) are a cord duo from ...

  

  

• Black Violin set for 'the mac' in Glen Ellyn / Chicago Tribune

  Posted At: February 28, 2017 12:00 AM

  Black Violin consists of classically trained string instrumentalists Kevin Sylvester (violin) and Wilner Baptiste (viola), who met beginning in loftier school in Miami. They reconnected subsequently higher and discovered that non but did they both notwithstanding play, they were inspired by the aforementioned artists including Curtis Mayfield and jazz violinist Stuff Smith. Together they formed Black Violin, with the idea of fusing the...

  

  

• Black Violin sells out and then rocks Stanford's Bing Concert Hall - The Huffington Post

  Posted At: February 19, 2017 12:00 AM

  For many, information technology was a refreshing surprise and to others they merely could not wait to hear live and in living colour the musical geniuses who were the talk of the town in apprehension of their performance in Palo Alto, CA. That would be Kevin Sylvester and Wil Baptiste, nationally and internationally known as Black Violin. Blackness Violin rocked the roof at Stanford Bing Concert Hall on January 28, ii...

  

  

• Black Violin thank you moms for preserving classical music / San Francisco Classical Phonation

  Posted At: January xx, 2017 12:00 AM

  Give a large slice of the credit for protecting, preserving, and propelling the hereafter relevancy of classical music to moms. Who, other than mothers, has throughout history played a larger part in shoving a violin under the chin of a wiggly boy or reminding a willful girl it'south fourth dimension to finish climbing copse and sit down at the keyboard? At the very least, lovers of classical music who want the art class ...

  

  

• This February, Indianapolis volition have a run a risk to experience Black Violin / Indianapolis Recorder

  Posted At: December 23, 2016 12:00 AM

  This February, Indianapolis volition have a take chances to experience Black Violin at Clowes Memorial Hall on Saturday, Feb. xviii, 2017. If yous're into rocking out to a genre-blending synthesis of hip-hop, popular and classical music with people of all ages and backgrounds, a Black Violin show might exist the move. The sonically eclectic Blackness Violin consists of violinist Kevin Sylvester and Wilner Baptiste, who play...

  

  

• Live in Studio with Blackness Violin / Illinois Public Media

  Posted At: December ten, 2016 12:00 AM

  On the 21st: Florida-based - Black Violin discusses how they're working to interruption down stereotypes. Kev & Wil performed a few songs for us and discussed how they're working to change stereotypes in both music and guild. Classically trained Blackness Violin accept opened for such diverse acme names in music equally Kanye West, 50 Cent, Aerosmith and Tom Fiddling, and also creatively collaborated with t...

  

  

• Black Violin / Violinist.com

  Posted At: Dec 5, 2016 12:00 AM

  With then many classically-trained musicians auditioning for an ever-shrinking number of orchestra jobs, sometimes musicians need to find a new path toward employment and creative fulfillment. Kevin Sylvester and Wilner Baptiste have done but that. Their band, Black Violin, is something quite out of the ordinary: a coming together and meshing of hip-hop, popular and classical styles. Florida-based Sylvester and B...

  

  

• Black Violin finds the correct 'Pitch' in Play a trick on'due south new baseball drama / Daily News

  Posted At: November 26, 2016 12:00 AM

  When FOX'south new baseball drama "Pitch" debuted in September, information technology wasn't but the airplane pilot that started on a loftier note. The show's soundtrack also made a strong impression of the audience, featuring upbeat string instrumentals. The group pulling the strings? Black Violin, Florida-based pair Kevin Sylvester and Wilner Baptiste - who get by Wil B and Kev Marcus - who combine classical and hip-hop. "Pitch" creator...

  

  

• Black Violin. Even so shattering Stereotypes, inspires kids at STRIVE Prep-Ruby Hill schoolhouse / Denver Post

  Posted At: November 23, 2016 12:00 AM

  They grew up playing classical music in the school orchestra, but what they listened to on their ain time was hip-hop. At present, two old loftier school classmates have found a way to alloy the two genres in the breakout duo Black Violin. Wil B plays the viola; Kev Marcus plays the violin. They shared a music stand up at Dillard High School of Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. - and they've been creating one thousand...

  

  

• Black Violin excites the Holland Heart / Omaha World-Herald

  Posted At: November 19, 2016 12:00 AM

  Black Violin brought their unique fusion of classical and hip-hop styles to the Holland Centre for Performing Arts Fri night in a loftier-energy concert that had audience members dancing in the aisles. The ii-member band consists of classically trained Wil Baptiste (viola) and Kev Marcus (violin). The pair has been mashing up highbrow tunes with danceable beats since they met in a Miami loftier schoolhouse 20 y...

  

  

• Blackness Violin with Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra play Strathmore / DC Metro Theater Arts review

  Posted At: November 14, 2016 12:00 AM

  "This is a party!" said Wil B (Wilner Baptiste) one half of the group Black Violin, which performed a genre-mashing amalgam of hip hop and classical in an unforgettable concert last night at The Music Center at Strathmore. Black Violin consists of Kev Marcus (aka Kevin Sylvester) and Wil B (Wilner Baptiste), two cord instrumentalists, classically trained, who met in a Miami high school twenty years ago. Th...

  

  

• Black Violin wows Ohio University audition / WOUB Radio

  Posted At: November seven, 2016 12:00 AM

  A crowd of nearly 1,200 rose to its anxiety in momentous applause on Midweek, Nov. 2 at the Templeton Blackburn Memorial Auditorium. Excited cheers and enthusiastic dancing accompanied the performance of the classical/hip-hop string duo Black Violin. Classically-trained musicians Kevin Sylvester (stage name Kev Marcus) and Wilner Baptiste (stage name Volition B) compose the musical duo, and since their 2004 p...

  

  

• Black Violin set for OU Performing Arts Concert Series / Athens Mail service

  Posted At: November 1, 2016 12:00 AM

  Black Violin, Two violinists ( Wil Baptiste and Kev Sylvester ) who are revolutionizing the mode people recollect most classical music, volition exist performing at Templeton-Blackburn Memorial Auditorium on Wed November ii at seven:30 p.m. The consequence, which is a function of the Performing Arts and Concert Series, is open to the public. BV p has played alongside various prominent artists such as Kanye West and Aerosmit...

  

  

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