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Black Violin to unite hip hop, classical at MLK event
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The Broward Times
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January 18, 2008
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Kevin Sylvester (a/k/a Kev Marcus) has fond memories of James Miles, the orchestra teacher at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale.
Sylvester attended the school with his friend, Wilner Baptiste, also known as Wil b.
"He is the one who got it in my head that we could do something different," Sylvester said of Miles. "We were classically trained, and playing classical stuff. He didn't push us to go outside of that, but he did push us to be better."
Miles talked Sylvester's conservative, West Indian mother (she's from Dominica) into allowing him to attend school at Dillard, "in the middle of the hood," because he believed the young musician had a shot at a college scholarship.
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