About Yo-Yo Ma

1. Yo-Yo Ma was born to Chinese parents living in Paris.

2. He began to study the cello with his father at age 4 and soon came with his family to New York.

3. Ma and his wife have two children.

4. Ma is an exclusive Sony Classical artist.

5. He plays two instruments, a 1733 Montagnana cello from Venice and the 1712 Davidoff Stradivarius.