Vanessa's Magical World of Music

The Young Violin Player

Vanessa-Mae, a young violinist, now twenty-four, took the world by storm when she was just sixteen with the release of her first 'pop' album: *The Violin Player*. Touted as a "Child Prodigy" many in the Classical community were excited with this new exciting star who had already released 3 Classical CD's when she was 12 & 13, had toured with orchestras and participated in many TV appearances with professional aplomb.

It was early 1995 when Vanessa strongly came onto the music scene with her hugely successful Pop CD, "Then Violin Player". The Classical elitist were appalled that their prodigy had released a "Pop" CD packaged as Classical.

But the world soonfell in Love with Vanessa and her brand of Music, a blend of Classical, Pop and Jazz. Vanessa mesmerized audiences with her compositions and charismatic personality.

Vanessa also dressed to kill causing an additional uproar from a few stodgy Classical elitists, But it is her mastery of the violin, which left listeners amazed and in awe.

Her recordings have been selling nearly as fast as the tickets for her concerts did. "I sold four Vanessa-Mae CDs this morning in the first few minutes after I opened," said Jean Khoury. Several hundred CDs of the violinist's five albums have passed through the shop's six branches.

Vanessa Mae was the youngest person ever to attend the Royal College of Music. Youngest person ever to record the Beethoven and Tchaikovsky violin concertos. The fastest-selling classical artist ever. Plus an alluring nymphet, to boot.

Fashion Forward

Clinging, white, transparent dresses. Pink hot pants. Fashion shoots for Tatler and Vogue. Still, I refuse to be intimidated. I can do hot pants. I can even do hot pants with pop-socks, which is quite a wow, apparently. They even featured me once in Crime Weekly, under the headline: "It's a crime, whichever way you look at it," which was nice. And I'm known to be quite musical.