Vanessa Mae
Vanessa Mae
Vanessa-Mae is a British violinist with album sales reaching several million, having made her the wealthiest entertainer under 30 in the United Kingdom in 2006. She competed under the name Vanessa Vanakornfor Thailand in alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was initially banned from skiing because a qualifying race for her benefit was alleged to be corrupt, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport later nullified the ban, citing lack of evidence for her own wrongdoing or any...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionViolinist
Date of Birth27 October 1978
CountryChina
Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.
Music will always be my greatest passion.
People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.
I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.
But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.