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Famous American Cellist, Yo-Yo Ma

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Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma is a French-conceived American cellist known for his unprecedented method and rich tone. His successive coordinated efforts with performers and specialists from different classifications, societies, and media revived traditional music and extended its crowd.

 

He moved on from The Juilliard School and Harvard University, and has proceeded as a soloist with ensembles around the globe. He has recorded in excess of 90 collections and got 18 Grammy Awards.

 

Notwithstanding chronicles of the standard old style collection, he has recorded a wide assortment of society music, for example, American country music, conventional Chinese songs, the tangos of Argentinian arranger Ástor Piazzolla, and Brazilian music. He has worked together with specialists including jazz artist Bobby McFerrin, guitarist Carlos Santana, Sérgio Assad and his sibling, Odair, and artist lyricist and guitarist James Taylor.

 

He every now and again proceeded as a component of a threesome with piano player Emanuel Ax and violin player Young-Uck Kim and as a feature of a group of four with Ax and violin players Isaac Stern and Jaime Laredo. Mama and Ax got high recognition for their chronicles of the sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms.

In 1998 Ma established the Silk Road Project, an expressions association that at first centered around investigating the social customs along the Silk Road, an antiquated exchanging course that connected China with the West.

 

He has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2006. He was granted The Glenn Gould Prize in 1999, the National Medal of Arts in 2001, Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011, and Polar Music Prize in 2012.

He is remembered for Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020.