Facts about Yo-Yo Ma

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

2.Ma's father started teaching him to play the cello when he was four.

3.In 1978, he won the Avery Fisher Prize, a very special $50,000 prize given to only a few of the world's best musicians.

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

5.Even though Ma didn’t study music at Harvard, in 1991 the school gave him an honorary Doctorate of Music, their highest degree.