“Flight of the Bumblebee” with my dear friend Bobby McFerrin on The Tonight Show circa 1992! | Yo-Yo Ma

Despite not recording any music until he was in his 30s, Bobby McFerrin had already spent half a decade honing a quite striking craft. He wanted a sound unlike anybody else’s, refraining from listening to any other singers for two whole years. For this concert, at the Munich Summer Piano Festival in 1988, we see Bobby at a very special moment in his career, just before everything changed. Indeed, a few months after this performance, he would release "Don’t Worry, Be Happy," a track that got to N