Bringing commercial sensuality to the
often sterile world of classical music, Vanessa-Mae
moved from a classical recording career into the
field of popular music with her 1994 breakout album,
The Violin Player. Born Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn
Nicholson in 1979 to a Thai-Chinese couple living in
Singapore, she took her first piano lesson at the
age of three and moved to violin two years later.
Vanessa-Mae was raised in London, where she first
performed with an orchestra (the London
Philharmonic) in 1989.
