# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yo-yo-ma
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:12:48.103Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yo-yo-ma"
name: "Yo-Yo Ma"
slug: "yo-yo-ma"
description: "Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist. Born to Chinese parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy, and began to study the cello with his father at age four. Ma moved with his family to Boston at age seven and later to New York City, where he continued his cello studies at the Juilliard School before pursuing a liberal arts education at Harvard University. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world, recorded more than 92 albums, and received 20 Grammy Awards."
tagline: "American cellist (born 1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yo-Yo_Ma_in_2018_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1955-10-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 595000
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump