MC & DJ & Beatboxer & Professor | Say Word Ent. & The New School | Brooklyn, NYC | Album Maker, Freestyle Innovator, Cypher Facilitator, Dancefloor Instigator | Next Level Hip Hop Cultural Ambassador | Resident DJ at The Jelly, American Beatbox Championships, SNL Afterparties, The Lesson, All Good Fridays at Sycamore | "Fake Flowers Last Forever" Coming 18.10.24

Duv is a seasoned solo artist, studio vocalist, performer and composer. Native to the Bronx, NYC, Duv began his artistry as a dancer at The Bronx Dance Theatre, where he studied ballet, modern, jazz, and hip-hop styles of dance. There is a seamless connection between the finesse and fluidity of his voice and of his movement. Duv is known for his vocal range, musical versatility, looping and beatboxing. 

His passionate performances are infused with the warmth of his personality; a glimpse into his expansive heart. Duv has graced the stages of The Nuyorican, Arlene’s Grocery, Rockwood Music Hall, Nublu, and The Bowery Poetry Club. Duv was a featured artist at Joe’s Pub, BAM, The Brooklyn Museum, Galapagos, The Blue Note and The Highline Ballroom.

He is a founding member of the musical collective, Soul Inscribed. 

Duv is also a four time recipient of cultural ambassadorship for the US Department of State. He has performed and facilitated in Mexico, Russia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Mauritius, Holland, and Peru. He also has worked remotely with participants in Nigeria and around the U.S. 

He was a lead performer in the off-broadway show; "Cannabis! A Viper Vaudeville", depicting Pancho Villa as the “Hipster Trickster.” A Viper Vaudeville premiered July 2022 at The LaMama Theatre NYC, produced by HERE Arts Center. ( https://here.org/ )

Duv is currently working on his next solo album and much more! Stay tuned into duvmusic.com or on social media for updates about music and future shows.

Rabbi Darkside is a Hip Hop MC/DJ/Beatboxer/Educator, first appearing on wax and in NYC Public School classrooms in the year 2000. His movements and music aim to incite empathy and empowerment through social justice education and creative freedom. His prowess as a multi-elemental artist has led to 15 international tours, landed his latest album atop the CMJ Hip Hop charts and found him on MTV’s “Made,” Okayplayer, New York Times, the Today Show, CBS Early Show, HipHopDX, 2DopeBoyz, Showtime's "Nurse Jackie" and the Village Voice. Darkside blurs the line between Hip Hop, Jazz, Folk, Poetry and Progressive Soul, facilitated by his mastery of improvisation, vast influences and elastic collaborative abilities. Recent performance highlights include headlining the 2016 and 2015 Blue Note Jazz Club (NYC), 2014 SXSW, 2013 CMJ Festival, 2012 WNYC Battle of the Boroughs, while sharing stages and studios with Aloe Blacc, Antibalas, Black Sheep, Blue Man Group, Common, Da Beatminerz, DJ Rob Swift, Fishbone, Homeboy Sandman, J-Live, Prince Paul, Rahzel, Robert Glasper, Rosie Perez, Sadat X, Slick Rick, Soulive, Talib Kweli, The Coup and many others. He’s won every freestyle rap competition in NYC in the new millennium, including being the 20-time Freestyle Mondays “Off the Head Gameshow” Champion and 2010 End of the Weak MC Challenge U.S. Co-Champion. He is in his 3rd year as resident DJ at The Lesson, NYC’s acclaimed live Hip Hop jam session, and continues to prove himself one of the city’s favorite party rockers. Darkside is currently a professor at The New School (NYC), teaching seminars of his own design entitled “Hip Hop Pedagogy & Practice” and “Hip Hop Skills, Style & Science.” He is the co-founder of the Hip Hop Re:Education Project, a Hip Hop Education Fellow at the H2ED Hip Hop Ed Center at NYU, and the artistic creator of NYS Regents test prep program "Fresh Prep.” In 2015 he traveled to Kampala, Uganda as a Cultural Ambassador with the Next Level Initiative, a collaboration between the U.S. State Department and UNC-Chapel Hill, and in 2017 was the Visiting Artist at Universal American School in Dubai, where he ran workshops and performances focused on Artistic Voice in Cultural Communities. He is also a secular ordained minister and recently presided over his 7th wedding.

Poet and emcee Melissa Czarnik defies category with her genre blending approach to hip hop.  Her soulful and sexy flow captivates listeners with intricate lyricism and heartfelt storytelling.  Czarnik performs exclusively with live musicians and crafts her signature sound in the studio with classically trained composer, Eric Joseph Meyer.   

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