The Lique

Formed in 2015, Las Vegas-based Hip Hop Jazz band The Lique mixes rap, jazz, soul, funk and rock into a vibrant musical concoction that is determined to not only move bodies but also probe minds. The five members of The Lique-MC Rasar, guitarist Sean Carbone, keyboardist Jason Corpuz, drummer Jeremy Klewicki and bassist Nick Schmitt-met and formed in Las Vegas after Sacramento native Rasar moved there to to work as a cast member of the show “Vegas Nocturne.”

“While we are a jazz family first and foremost, we love hip-hop and we love classical and all these other things. But there is also a contemporary sound in what we’re doing,” Rasar said. “So I think with this new album, you’ll see a lot of the lessons that we learned traveling so much and realizing that we can continue to expand, because improvisation and adaptability is so crucial to who we are.”