Picture a concert pianist and your mind will probably conjure the image of a coat-and-tails-clad performer such as Leif Ove Andsnes, Claudio Arrau or even Victor Borge, who played piano for laughs but ...

From Mozart to Migos, BLKBOK is determined to help musicians of color not conform. He wants them to be who they are, their most authentic selves. June is Black Music Month, and theGrio is highlighting ...

Like many who came of age in the 1990s, Charles Wilson III was a diehard hip-hop fan, galvanized by the likes of Biggie and Busta Rhymes. But the Detroit-born piano prodigy had another, unconventional ...

The Arts Campus At Willits opened its doors Friday evening to share a season preview with annual donors, followed by the musical stylings of Detroit-based, neo-classical pianist BLKBOK. Before the ...

Be consistent. Let go of perfection. Trust your own voice. Those were just a few of the messages that acclaimed pianist and composer BLKBOK delivered to UMass Lowell students during a recent ...

One of Detroit’s latest musical artistic innovators is making a rare return to the region for a one-night-only performance this weekend. Composer and pianist BLKBOK – real name Charles Wilson III – ...

NORTH ADAMS — In the YouTube video, “Cookie Waltz,” pianist BLKBOK (pronounced ‘Black Bach’) performs a musical tribute he wrote to his mother. The music is melodic, at times lilting, at times ...

MUSKEGON, MI — Genre-bending composer and pianist BLKBOK is set to perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, at the Block music venue at 360 W. Western Ave. in Muskegon. BLKBOK — whose real name is ...

BLKBOK also performed a rendition of "Rocket Man" dedicated to Michael López-Alegría Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her ...

June is Black Music Month, and theGrio is highlighting talented musicians from beginning to end. Beethoven, Bach, and Vivaldi are some names that instantly come to mind when hearing the phrase ...