TOC Presents BLKBOK
$18 advance
Doors Open: 6:30pm
About BLKBOK
Born and raised in Detroit's inner-city, BLKBOK (Pronounced "Black Bach") is a critically acclaimed, neo-classical piano prodigy who fuses pop and hip-hop culture with classical music in his live piano based performance. BLKBOK's debut album, Black Book, served as a founding cornerstone at the very first Juneteenth Foundation's Freedom Concert. He uses dexterous arrangements and melodic scores to audibly illustrate the innovative and disruptive musical landscape that is BLKBOK.
"When people see me, snapback, inked up Black man, they make a lot of assumptions about me, people expect me to start rapping, and they're not 100% wrong, I am a rapper. Except I spit lyrics and I tell my stories through my hands, with these notes… You see me one way, you hear me another. It’s about marrying those two concepts and building bridges through music.
"All of these things, the pop music influence, the Motown influence, the classical influence–all of these things came together at one point and that's how I am positioned in my true authentic self… I’m someone who studied classical music as a child but also was very influenced by hip hop and pop music – and toured with a bunch of pop acts … this is just the manifestation of so many things coming together.
"Growing up, I was into hip-hop and rap like all the kids in my neighborhood, but I was also obsessed with the music of Mozart, Debussy, and Bach – just as much as I was with Mos Def, or Biggie, or Busta Rhymes…" – BLKBOK
https://www.blkbok.com/