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Yo-Yo Ma was born on the 7th October 1955, in Paris, France of Chinese ancestry. He is best known for being a cellist, who has released over 90 albums and thanks to his accomplishments has won 18 Grammy Awards. Yo-Yo is also recognized as a child prodigy, whose professional career began when he was only five years old, in 1961.

Have you ever wondered how rich is Yo-Yo Ma, as of early 2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that the overall size of Ma’s net worth is over $20 million. He has accumulated this sum of money during his successful career in the world of music. Another source is coming from his appearances in several TV series and shows.

[divider]Yo-Yo Ma spent his childhood in Paris with father Hiao-Tsiun Ma, who was a violinist and worked as a professor of music at Nanjing University, and mother Marina Lu, who was a singer. So, under the influence of his family, from an early age he started learning to play several instruments, and as a five-year-old boy, he began performing. At the age of seven, he moved to New York with the family, where he went to The Juilliard School. Then he enrolled at Columbia University, but quit and moved to Harvard College, from which he graduated with a BA degree in 1976. Later, in 1991, he earned an honorary doctorate from the college. While in college, Ma became a member of the Marlboro Festival Orchestra, practicing with nonagenarian cellist and conductor Pablo Casals. Even before he became a part of the Marlboro Festival Orchestra, Ma played with several famous orchestras, and had also performed with the pianist Emanuel Ax. Yo-Yo Ma has performed with numerous notable musicians, such as Condoleezza Rice, Sting, and has also played at several political, social and sport events such as the inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama in 2009, on the aftermath of Boston Marathon bombings which was held at Cathedral of the Holy Cross, on the 2002`s Winter Olympic Games opening ceremony, and several others which have increased his net worth by a large degree.

He is also recognized for his friendship with Steve Jobs, and his dedication to Apple, as he performed at several events held by Apple, and also Ma`s video of himself playing some of Bach`s most memorable recordings was used to pay respect to Steve Jobs on the first anniversary of his death.

Over the years, Ma`s net worth also benefited from his involvement in movie soundtracks, as he is the one responsible for creating soundtracks for films such as “Seven Years In Tibet” (1997), “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (2000), “Memoirs of a Geisha”, and several others.

Ma has also released more than 90 albums, which have also increased his net worth, and he is also a recipient of 18 Grammy Awards, and numerous other prestigious awards, such as Avery Fisher Prize, which he received in 1978, Glenn Gould Prize in 2011, Dan David Prize in 2006, among others. Ma was also awarded with National Medal of Arts in 2001, and ten years later he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and in 2012 he was the recipient of the Polar Music Prize.

Regarding his personal life, Yo-Yo Ma has been married to Jill Hornor since 1978; the couple has two children, and their current residence is in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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• [on being considered a trail-blazer in world music] I basically think that if you open yourself up to a lot of things, history kind of makes you step back from what you are doing. You just feel, ‘Let’s make something happen!’. It’s a very slight change in attitude, but it does have ramifications in terms of what comes out. Essentially, you face an audience, you face your colleagues, and you say ‘This is all we have, let’s do something with it. There are many different reasons why people are in this room. Let’s do something worthwhile and make it count. There are so many people in the world, so many different forms of expression. So who are we? What we do? Let’s make this as precious as we can’. Maybe getting older has something to do with this attitude. Being aware of a much larger world, you’re aware of the scale and the total inconsequence of your own being. But what you can say is: any single voice does matter. Any individual action is in fact a human voice that is there to witness the world. That, in itself, is worthwhile. You have to keep both things in your head at once – the biggest possible picture and the most minute one – the ‘right now’. Then you have access to both objective and subjective narratives, you have perspective, so you don’t get lost.
• Whenever I’ve had a dull moment in performing, it becomes absolutely, exquisitely painful. When it’s good you know, no matter how difficult the music is, time just flies by. When it’s not, time becomes excruciatingly slow – you’re Sisyphus pushing that boulder up the hill that never ends. People might still say,’That was a good performance’, but you feel absolutely horrible because you weren’t connecting with what the music is about. When I do connect, then I have the easiest job in the world.
• I’d like to think that the the four strings on the cello are attached to my vocal chords. So whatever you think should be reflected in the sound, in the musculature of how you pull the bow and how it comes out, there should be no impediment between the thought and the sound. That’s something that people strive for, but never want to hear ‘So-and-so’s a great instrumentalist’. What you want to hear is, ‘Oh, that makes me think’.
• Grow old gracefully by maintaining your curiosity.
• I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

Yo-Yo Mama Important Facts

• Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama. [February 2011]
• Recipient of the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors, along with Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Sonny Rollins, and Meryl Streep.
• Began playing cello at the age of four.
• He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 2001 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
• Attended Harvard University from 1972-1976
• enrolled at Juilliard at age 9
• Son, NIcholas, born 1983.
• Daughter, Emily, born 1985.
• Named People Magazine’s Sexiest Classical Musician 2001.
• Cellist.

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