“Choppa Style” is the unofficial fight song of the Who Dat Nation. The New Orleans rap classic, recorded by Choppa in 2002, features plenty of thunderous bass and clattering drums. But not a note of violin.
Unless you happened to be attending a wedding in Houston on Dec. 1, when violin virtuoso Dominique Hammons played “Choppa Style” like it was Tchaikovsky.
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Hammons, who started playing the violin when he was in fourth grade, studied the classics and jazz at the University of Oklahoma. But when he performs, he likes to cover crowd pleasers, he said. During the Houston nuptials he played romantic tunes by Alicia Keys, John Legend and Frank Ocean.
Then, at the end of the wedding as the reception was getting underway, he tossed in a touch of bounce.
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“It was funny because at first I wasn’t going to do it,”Hammons recalled. “But I said, let me leave with a bang.”
The wedding attendees, decked out in tuxedos and gowns, were shocked, Hammons said. They were also, obviously delighted.
“They weren’t expecting that,” he said, “because you don’t see a lot of violins playing bounce music.”
Hammons said that New Orleans bounce is popular in Houston, because so many New Orleanians moved there after Hurricane Katrina and the flood that followed. His performance really had nothing to do with football at all.
But while we're on the subject, Hammons confessed that he is a Cowboys fan, despite being born in Houston. Under most circumstances, that allegiance is inexcusable. But when you can cover “Choppa Style” on the fiddle, all is forgiven.
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