Violinists Damien and Tourie Escobar are two brothers quickly gaining notoriety for playing an intense blend of classical music, jazz, R&B and hip-hop. Damien is 18 years old and Tourie is 20. They're ...

Brothers Tourie and Damien Escobar were just young boys when they began earning money by playing the violin on New York's subways. While attending Julliard School of Music, they started incorporating ...

WHEN THEY FIRST take the stage, with their braided hair, do-rags and shining jewelry, teenage brothers Tourie and Damien Escobar look just like another rap or hip-hop duo. Then they take out the ...

Two boys toting violin cases were obvious targets for taunts on the streets of Queens. Tourie Escobar said that he and his brother, Damien, were called "sissies, punks and all that." Damien took to ...

Damien and Tourie Escobar of Nuttin’ But Stringz, the hip-hop violin duo that reached the finals of NBC's 2008 "America's Got Talent" show, performed at Tao nightclub (Venetian) on Thursday. They are ...

Sharon Osbourne isn't shy about her favorites on Wednesday's "America's Got Talent" finale. "I'm really rooting for Nuttin But Stringz, for Eli and for Neal," said Osbourne, a judge on the NBC talent ...

Damien Escobar might be best-known for his stint on "America's Got Talent" and his success as half of the platinum-selling hip-hop violin act Nuttin' But Stringz, but in a visit Tuesday night to the ...

December 1, 2006 • Brothers Damien and Tourie Escobar form the group Nuttin But Stringz, which is a venture into hip-hop violin. Their new CD is called Struggle from the Subway to the Charts.

LOS ANGELES - Sharon Osbourne isn't shy about her favorites on Wednesday's "America's Got Talent" finale. "I'm really rooting for Nuttin But Stringz, for Eli and for Neal," said Osbourne, a judge on ...