Black Violin at South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center January 15

True hip-hop has long had an affair with classical music, though indirectly. The best producers have used booming strings and brass to add a sense of melodrama and impending doom to classic boom-bap beats. Broward duo Black Violin has gone a step further.

Nas + Shostakovich = Black Violin

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South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center

10950 SW 211th St.
Cutler Bay, FL 33189

Category: Community Venues

Region: Cutler Bay/Palmetto Bay

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7 p.m. Sunday, January 15, at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, 10950 SW 211th St., Cutler Bay; 786-573-5300; smdcac.org. Admission is free with voucher from SMDCAC box office.

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• Dillard High School
• Fat Joe
• Alicia Keys
• Hip-Hop and Rap
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Members Kev Marcus and Wil B. studied classical strings throughout childhood and then as part of Dillard High School's performing arts program. They partnered during their college years, cribbed the name from an album by jazz violinist Stuff Smith, and worked at making violin music hip for their generation. As Black Violin, Kev and Wil B. combine classical and jazz with straight-up hip-hop, often appearing alongside a breakbeat-spinning DJ while performing live renditions of the instrumentals from hip-hop classics. The group has performed with Alicia Keys, Fat Joe, Akon, and even the Wu-Tang Clan.

Plus Black Violin might be the only local group that cites equal influence from Nas and Shostakovich.