Yo-Yo Ma ensemble wins music Grammy

Cello virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma and his ensemble have won an award during the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

Yo-Yo Ma ensemble and cast for Silk Road, of which Iranian Kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor is also a member, has taken the award for ‘Sing Me Home’ on during the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, which were held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The top musical works in the past year were praised and awarded during the gala event.

Yo-Yo Ma is an American-Chinese musician known by many as the most prominent cello virtuoso of the century. He has won numerous international awards, including a Grammy with his Silk Road Ensemble for ‘Sing Me Home’.

The website of Silk Road Ensemble has defined the album as a “tribute to the ways culture can help us encounter, connect, and build something new.”

Kayhan Kalhor, an Iranian Kamancheh player, composer and master of classical Kurdish and Iranian traditional music, is fluent in the Kamancheh - an Iranian bowed string instrument.

International collective ensemble Silk Road was established in 2000 by Yo-Yo Ma and is composed of musicians from various nationalities and masters of various musical instruments.

Last year, acclaimed director Morgan Neville made a documentary about the ensemble called ‘The Music of Strangers’.

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