Black Violin Stereotypes

The Black Violin concerts are a fusion of jazz, classical, blues, hip-hop, and R&B portrayed by virtuoso violinists Wil Baptiste, who prefers to be recognized as “Wil B”, and partner in the Black Violin duet, Kevin Sylvester, who also prefers to be known as “Kev Marcus”. Will B and Kev Marcus made a trip down to Lubbock, Texas to preform live in the Allen Theatre on the Texas Tech Campus on February twelfth at seven o’clock pm. The audience consisted of a very extensive variety of people. Whites, blacks, hispanics, older, younger, and most of which that were students. The audience was overly enjoyed to be in the presence of two outstanding performers that continue to master the meaning of a five-star rated act. The show on February sixteenth
I love the meaning behind this song, it completely describes the two members and what they stand for. Kev Marcus and Will B are trying to change the stereotypes of black men and the stereotype of classical music and the people that play it. The typical stereotype of a black man is that they are an uneducated, athletic, blue collar person. There also is an stereotype on the genre of classical music. When you think of classical music your mind runs straight to white, upper class, wealthy, white collar adults. Black Violin is an exact mix of these two stereotypes having two older black men that play the violin with such class yet such unique style by adding hip hop to the mix, they continue the message throughout the song when the children and adults from different cultures come on in the back ground describing and talking about the meaning of stereotypes. The song, Stereotype, does a better than perfect job of representing the Black Violin and their special music by shifting from classical to gip hop within the
I have never been a fan of the classical genre of musics so that is another reason for my doubtful thinking of the show. Later I googled Black Violin and discovered amazing reviews and listened to a couple of there performances and was quite impressed. Black Violin started nearly ten years ago and the two musicians, Kev Marcus and Will B, have performed over two-hundred shows each year in forty-nine states and thirty-six countries. These countries consist of Dubai, Prague, South Africa and more. They also appeared on three NFL celebrations for the Super Bowls. They have performed for the President multiple times and have collaborated with the likes of P. Diddy, Kanye West, 50 Cent, Aerosmith, Alicia Keys and more. After discovering all of this information I was more looking forward to the concert, but i still had my doubts about it being based off of classical music. The concert was definitely memorable for me and I am glad to say I had the opportunity to get to experience the Black Violin show. I would certainly recommend Black Violin to anyone who appreciates hip hop and classical music and everything in