Yo-Yo Ma

This article is about the character. For the guest star, see Yo-Yo Ma.

Yo-Yo Ma

Character Information Gender: Male ♂ Status: Alive Hair: Black Occupation: Cellist First appearance: "Missionary: Impossible" Voiced by: Himself

Yo-Yo Ma is a French-born Chinese-American cellist.

History

Yo-Yo Ma was part of the PBS Mob chasing Homer.

When Jaqueline Bouvier had her 80th birthday invited Mr. Burns, Yo-Yo Ma to play at his cello for her. He was later reading The Yo-Yo Diet when Patty and Selma starting to showing the pictures.

When trying to get Lisa to give up on her dreams of becoming a jazz musician, Principal Skinner shows her several examples of people good at what they did followed by people who weren't. One of his examples compared Yo-Yo Ma to Ma-Ma Yos.

After a nightmare, before Dewey Largo wakes up, he mentions Yo-Yo Ma along with Gustavo Dudamel.

Appearances

• Episode – "Missionary: Impossible"
• Episode – "Puffless"
• Episode – "Lisa Gets the Blues" (picture)
• Episode – "Girl's in the Band" (mentioned)

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