Michael Glen Block (born May 25, 1982) is an American cellist, singer, composer, arranger, and solo artist hailed as "the ideal musician of the twenty-first century" by cultural icon Yo-Yo Ma.[1][2] Mike Block has worked with Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Lenny Kravitz, Shakira, The National, Joe Zawinul, Alison Krauss, Rachel Barton Pine, Mark O'Connor, and other notable musicians.[3] Block currently plays with the Silk Road Ensemble.[4] In January, 2014, Block married fiddler and composer Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.