American cellist Yo-Yo Ma was born on October 7, 1955. He was a child prodigy who began performing at the age of four and a half. He was born in Paris to Chinese parents and received his education in New York City. He attended Columbia University, graduated from the Juilliard School and Harvard University, and has performed as a soloist with orchestras all around the world. He has over 90 albums under his belt and 19 Grammy nominations.
Ma has recorded a wide range of folk music, including American bluegrass music, traditional Chinese melodies, the tangos of Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla, and Brazilian music, in addition to recordings of the mainstream classical repertoire. He has worked with musicians from several genres, such as the guitarist Carlos Santana, the vocalist Bobby McFerrin, the guitarist Sérgio Assad and his brother Odair, and the singer-songwriter-guitarist James Taylor. The main instrument used by Ma for performances is a 1733 Montagnana cello, which is worth US$2.5 million.
Ma has served as a Messenger of Peace for the UN since 2006. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011, the National Medal of Arts in 2001, the Glenn Gould Prize in 1999, and the Polar Music Prize in 2012. Ma was included in Time magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
Ma’s voice can be heard on the 1997 soundtrack by John Williams for the Hollywood movie Seven Years in Tibet. He appeared on the soundtracks of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World in 2003 and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2000. On the soundtrack for the movie Memoirs of a Geisha from 2005, he once more worked with Williams. Additionally, he collaborated with Italian composer Ennio Morricone, with whom he recorded The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly from the Dollars Trilogy as well as Once Upon a Time in America, The Mission, and The Untouchables. Nineteen of his more than 90 albums have received Grammy Awards. The International Center in New York gave him the Award of Excellence.
Along with his successful musical career, Ma worked with landscape architects to create a Bach-inspired garden in 1999. It is known as the Music Garden, and it interprets Bach’s Suite No. 1 in G Major for unaccompanied cello (BWV 1007). The portions of the garden were planned to match the dancing movements of the suite. The design, which was initially intended for Boston, was eagerly adopted by Toronto and subsequently constructed in the Harbourfront (Toronto) district.
In January 2006, Ma was appointed Peace Ambassador by Kofi Annan, who was then the UN Secretary-General. He is a founding member of the well-known Committee of 100 Chinese Americans, which represents the interests of Americans with Chinese ancestry.
Ma was selected by President Barack Obama to join the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities on November 3, 2009. In the 2010 documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, which was narrated by Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman, his song was played. Ma won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 2011 after President Obama stated in 2010 that he would do so.
Ma was appointed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant in 2010. Together with the orchestra’s music director, Riccardo Muti, he established the Citizen Musician Project Alliance. Additionally, in 2010, he performed with guitarist Carlos Santana and singer India Arie on the Beatle’s song While My Guitar Gently Weeps” for the album Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time.
Ma collaborated with guitarist and singer-songwriter James Taylor in 2015 on three songs from Taylor’s number-one album Before This World: You and Me Again. Ma oversaw the orchestra at the annual Youth Music Culture Festival in Guangdong in 2019. Opus 3 Artists, an independent artist management company, is Ma’s representative. Ma backed Miley Cyrus on a cover of the Metallica song “Nothing Else Matters” for the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist, which was released in September 2021.
How old is Yo-Yo Ma?
He is 67 years old.
Who is Yo-Yo Ma’s Wife and Kids?
Ma has been wed to art consultant Jill Hornor since 1978. Nicholas and Emily are their two kids. Even though he believes it to be the “worst insult he’s ever encountered,” People “tagged” him as the “Sexiest Classical Musician” in 2001. Over the years, he has continued to win such honors, including one from AARP in 2012. As a man of unquestioned character, he has also received accolades and been singled out for his humility, selflessness, and humanitarianism.
How much is Yo-Yo Ma worth?
Yo-Yo Ma has an estimated net worth of over $25 million.
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