Yo-Yo Ma’s parents trained their child to be cellist as well as a songwriter during an early age. He was born in 1955 to Chinese parents in Paris, France. His mother is a singer while his father was a music teacher and a composer.
His father became the first teacher of the young Yo-Yo Ma together with his sister.
Yo-Yo Ma at the age of 3 had gained the same lessons that his sister had. Their father had a great, unique and rigorous teaching style that contributed to the early success of the boy. At 4 years old, he began to play the cello and at 5 years old he had memorized 3 of the solo suites of Johann Sebastian Bach.
This amazing child moved with his family to New York when he was 7 years old. By that time, he was beginning to establish the success of being one of the most prominent classical musicians the world has ever known.
Here is Yo-Yo Ma in a great favorite: The Cello Concerto by Dvorak:
