“When you learn something from people or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve that gift and to build on that gift.”
— Yo-Yo Ma
American Cellist
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Yo-Yo Ma is a world renowned cellist. He could be so high and proud. Yet he is humble and learning. That is so he can be the best musician and person.
Appreciate the gifts people offer you…and thank them by passing on their gift to others, whether through appreciation, gratitude, love, recognition, sincerity. Life and music are about giving.
We thank Yo-Yo Ma for his contribution to music and the world.
And I am thanking you for your personal gift to the world, whatever that might be!
Lovingly,
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Yo-Yo Ma is one of the world’s most famous cellists. He has recorded more than 90 albums and received 19 Grammy Awards.
Ma was born in Paris, though the family moved to New York when he was five. He comes from a musical family. His mother was a singer and his father was a violinist; his older sister is also a violinist. A child prodigy, Ma began playing the cello at age four, and performed for John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower at the age of seven. He attended Julliard at age nine, and went on to study at Harvard. He has performed with orchestras around the world, and has put out 75 albums.
Ma currently plays with the Silk Road Ensemble; their goal is to bring together musicians from the countries which are historically linked by the Silk Road, an ancient trade route linking southeast Asia through the Middle East to northern Africa and the Mediterranean coast of Europe.
Biosource: Wikipedia, Yo-Yo Ma Official Website: https://www.yo-yoma.com/ Fig¹. World Economic Forum on flickr
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