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Artist: Paul Dateh
Website: www.myspace.com/PaulDateh
Track Name: Hip Hop Vocalese
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This fresh faced classically trained singer/songwriter and hip hop violinist from Los Angeles California is pretty damn hot.

He started studying classical violin at the age of four and by the time he reached college decided that he wanted to do jazz instead. Since then he has incorporated it into his love of hip hop.

He says in an interview that he wanted to show that you could make classical music relevant to people and bring hip hop to classical music. Strange as the combination may seem, it works. Just as for a previous generation classical music and rock were a marriage made in heaven.

Armed with fourteen years of Classical training in violin and an undergraduate degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, Dateh strives to write music that incorporates many different musical influences. From riffing over old school hip hop beats in the style of “Tribe Called Quest” to spitting impressive improvisatory licks ala Clifford Brown, Paul Dateh’s music is rich with soul and thriving with energy.

Here is a Youtube piece that he does with Inka One a DJ also from LA

He performs in LA with his band The Live Movement, listen to Hip Hop Vocalese

While on the subject of hip hop violin, check out this next clip. Another violinist jamming to hip hop.

jools is a graphic designer who used to front a band on vocals and bass. All evidence of which have mercifully been obliterated or otherwise lost.
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