Current Talent Development students combined each other’s talents to create a music group known as Black Plague.

Black Plague consists of 11 individuals, eight of whom attend URI.  The group consists of Talent Development students including two producers- Toye “Toyeast” Onikoyi and Victor “Victor Levie” Montanez; rappers- Sam “Verzatyl” Ogundare, Kyle “ADTheThird” Delgato; two videographers- Kassandra “KasshProductions” Brown and James “Project Two Projects” Xiong; designer- Kirby Nunez; and singer- Rodderick “Rodda J” Jones. Other members of the group include Olivia King (singer), Yeriel Buren (designer), and Baheem “Option D” Ferrell

The group came together during the Fall of 2013 when founding members Onikoyi and Montanez thought of the idea to start a music group.

“I was just getting into making beats,” Onikoyi said.  “In the beginning it was just me and Victor [Montanez] working together. We wanted to have other people with different talents, bring them together, and essentially make an empire with the greatest group of all time. Our goal is to express our art at the highest platform possible.”

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Original article by Nicole Torossian

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