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Yo-Yo Ma

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Also known as Yo Yo Ma, YoYo Ma

American cellist (born 1955)

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Yo-Yo Ma is a male cellist, composer, and music educator born in Paris, France, on October 7, 1955. He holds citizenship in the United States, the Republic of China, and France. Ma has worked in the classical music genre since 1961, performing on the cello, violin, piano, and viola. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been recognized in the Grammy Winners and Time 100 collections.

Ma received education at Harvard University, the Juilliard School, Columbia University, and Harvard College. He speaks English, French, and Standard Chinese. His recorded works include *Seven Tunes Heard in China*, *Jungle Night*, and *Yo-Yo Ma and Friends - Songs of Joy and Peace*. He has released music through Sony Classical, Columbia Records, and RCA Records. Additionally, Ma is affiliated with Sound Postings LLC.

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Person · Open Library

Works
6

Top works

  • Quotable Feynman
  • Jungle Night
  • Yo-Yo Ma and Friends - Songs of Joy and Peace
  • Seven Tunes Heard in China
  • Songs Of Joy Peace

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Sound · Paris, France

Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born to Chinese parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy, and began to study the cello with his father at age four. At the age of seven, Ma moved with his family to Boston and later to New York City, where he continued his cello studies at the Juilliard School before pursuing a liberal arts education at Harvard University. He has…

Known for

  • Half Moon — Self2025
  • Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy — Self - Narrator (voice)2025
  • Music by John Williams — Self - Cellist2024
  • Notre-Dame de Paris : La Réouverture - La Grande Soirée — Self2024
  • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — Yo-Yo Ma2022
  • Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 72020
  • Deeper Look from New York — Self2020
  • Desus & Mero — Self2019
  • Won't You Be My Neighbor? — Self - Musician and Fred's Friend2018
  • Mister Rogers: It's You I Like — Self2018

via TMDB

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
504,344
Total plays
8,944,151

Tags

Classicalcelloinstrumentalcontemporary classicalbaroque

Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born to and partially raised by Chinese parents in Paris and educated in New York City, he was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from the Juilliard School and Harvard University, attended Columbia University, and has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world. He has recorded more than 92 albums and received 19 Grammy Awards. In addition to recordings of the standard classical repertoire

via Last.fm · Yo-Yo Ma

Quotes

  • I figured out that my passion is not really for music. My passion is actually for people. So the exploration into different musics of different times has to do with trying to figure out who these people are, what this music represents and what context do we want to give it and what does it mean to us right now.

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Encyclopedic overview

Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born to Chinese parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy, and began to study the cello with his father at age four. Ma moved with his family to Boston at age seven and later to New York City, where he continued his cello studies at the Juilliard School before pursuing a liberal arts education at Harvard University. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world, recorded more than 92 albums, and received 20 Grammy Awards.

In addition to recordings of the standard classical repertoire, Ma has recorded a wide variety of folk music, such as American bluegrass music, traditional Chinese melodies, the tangos of Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla, and Brazilian music. He has also collaborated with artists from a diverse range of genres, including Bobby McFerrin, Carlos Santana, Chris Botti, Diana Krall, James Taylor, Miley Cyrus, Zakir Hussain, and Sting.

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