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I didn't know what it was like to perform without my brother. Escobar had never had a job and thought one might be fun. He briefly went into real estate. My supervisor said, 'I don't care who you were before this. Now you're in my house. What am I doing with my life? I can't live like this. I've gotta get back on my journey. I had nothing, zero dollars in my account. Escobar slowly began making music again, using his social media accounts to promote himself.

He got invited to President Obama's second inaugural the president had watched him on "America's Got Talent," at the urging of a friend of Escobar's who worked at the White House , performed on tour with Oprah, and sold , copies of his mixtape.

His covers of songs by Alicia Keys and John Legend went viral. Tourie dropped out of the program but continued to study. Carrying a violin case through the streets that produced some of rap's hardcore figures wasn't easy; the brothers were teased, and Damien began to drape his jacket over the case.

Feeney of the Washington Post. For a while the brothers' musical growth was interrupted when they became involved with the neighborhood's gang culture. It was regret over the impact their gang involvement had on their mother, plus the continued pull of the music they had discovered, that turned the brothers around.

The brothers began playing in the New York subways—in cars, where people were forced to focus and listen, rather than in stations. They showed their music-business savvy early on. And their talents improved as they logged part of their two to seven hours of daily practice on the trains.

Playing together, they began to bill themselves as Nuttin' but Stringz. In the Escobars took the first step out of the subway when they signed James Washington as their manager.

That was all I needed. Today, Escobar is in the midst of a nationwide tour and looking forward to the release of his album Boundless in early I was a baby again.

I had to learn how to walk, how to appreciate, how to love. But I love it, man. Are you seeing a lot of young people who might normally be interested only in hip-hop?

So they connect with something. I fell in love with it when I was six, though. It was a required elementary school program. I graduated with my degree in music at 13, which is pretty fucking crazy. I was just in college for music, but I still had to do regular shit.

To be honest with you, by the time I was done with Juilliard I was burnt out. I was a young kid and it was a lot really soon. I went to another school and after that I was done. I went to high school and I started fucking up, and I quit playing violin for many, many years until I found my way back. When was it that you first realized you were good at violin?

I put my 10, hours in in like a year—I used to come home and practice for eight hours, every single day. I had an obsession. It only took me about a year and I was playing Beethoven. Listen Now Browse Radio Search.

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