Not just be crazy and different, but really step it up and be badass violinists." īlack Violin clinched the Showtime at the Apollo 2005 Legend title, of which Sylvester said: This time, we tried to keep our core message, but with more gravitas: more seriousness. "Our mantra has always been to engage the audience to look at things from a different perspective.At first, we leaned on the fact that we were different -more than on our technique. Īccording to Baptiste, "We wanted to be the next Neptunes the next Timbaland.but we noticed how, whenever we performed with our artists, the audience was really drawn to us." Of the duo's artistic philosophy on its self-titled album, Sylvester said: Alongside Sam G., the duo went on to co-found the production company DKNEX, which stands for Di-Versatile Music. At FIU, Sylvester met Sam G., who would go on to become the duo's manager. The group name "Black Violin" is derived from the album of the same name by jazz violinist, Stuff Smith. ![]() Of his early years, Sylvester stated in a 2012 interview: "I didn't want to be the violinist in my neighborhood." According to Sylvester, in the fifth grade: "I got into a little trouble.and my mom said she needed me to get into something, so she took me to Saturday morning violin class." Sylvester went on to attend Florida International University (FIU) on a full scholarship. Kev Marcus is the stage name of Kevin Sylvester. According to a 2012 interview, Baptiste stated: "I stuck with the viola and it opened a lot of doors for me." Baptiste went on to attend Florida State University on a full scholarship. Baptiste originally wanted to play saxophone but learned the viola as it was the only instrument available in class. Wil B is the stage name of Wilner Baptiste. Sylvester and Baptiste attended Dillard High School of Performing Arts, where they had the same music teacher. The duo currently performs with DJ SPS and drummer Nat Stokes. All the while, Black Violin continued touring, playing as many as 200 shows a year, and released two independent, self-financed albums before releasing the acclaimed Stereotypes in 2015. Individually and together, Wil and Kev have worked with Alessia Cara, 2 Chainz, and Lil Wayne. Other offers followed-they toured with Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park, opened for the Wu-Tang Clan, composed the music for the Fox series Pitch. They were approached by the manager of Alicia Keys, who asked them to perform with the singer on the Billboard Awards. ![]() Two years after sending in a tape to Showtime at the Apollo, they were invited to appear on the show-which they won and kept winning. They developed an act covering hip-hop songs on their violins, which became popular in local clubs. Jazz, Hip hop, Funk, Classical, Modern classical, Fusionīlack Violin is an American hip hop duo from Fort Lauderdale, Florida comprising two classically trained string instrumentalists, Kevin Sylvester and Wilner Baptiste, who go by the stage names Kev Marcus and Wil B.
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