Vanessa Mae Storm (Live)
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Vanessa Mae is the absolute best, a superb violin player, she looks so at ease in this video.
VANESSA’S FULL NAME:
Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson
A.K.A:
Vanessa-MaeChen Mei
Vanessa’s NATIONALITY:
British
Vanessa’s PARENTAGE:
mother Chinese, father Thai & her English adopted father
BORN:
Singapore, moved to London aged 4
Vanessa’sBIRTHDAY:
27th October 1978, same as Paganini’s 196 years later. She was born in the year of the horse. The horse is a very good sign for the Chinese. It is a symbol of speed and loyalty, both indicative of progress in careers and business as well as personal and familial satisfaction.
Vanessa’sRESIDENCE:
Kensington, London
Vanessa’s MERCHANDISE:
P.O.Box 363, Bournemouth BH7 6LA England
Vanessa’s EQUIPMENT:
a J.B. Guadagnini violin of 1761 (Italy) and a Zeta Jazz Model electric violin (USA)
Vanessa’s MUSIC CONCEPT:
The Violin Techno-acoustic Fusion
Vanessa’s SUPERSTITION:
Walks over freshly split water between dressing-room and stage
Vanessa’s MOTTO:
Life is short, so you better have fun
Vanessa’s HOBBIES:
Snow skiing, dining out, academic studies, water skiing, and reading in ever changing order of priority
Vanessa’s COLOUR:
Deep Purple
Vanessa’sFOOD:
Beluga Caviar. I like almost anything, but chocolate is some thing I really need sometimes
Vanessa’s DRINK:
Freshly squeezed oranged juice
Vanessa’s ADDICTED TO:
Music and chocolate
Vanessa’s BOOKS:
Several by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vanessa’s FILM:
The Jungle Book
ACTOR:
Humphrey Bogart
Vanessa’s BEST MOVIE:
The Shining
BIGGEST TV HERO:
Winnie the Poe
Vanessa’s COMPOSER:
Gustav Mahler
BEST CD:
A greatest-hits CD of Elvis Presley
Vanessa’s MAN:
Paganini, an Italian violinist
Vanessa’s WOMAN:
I can not choose between my mother and my grandma
Vanessa’s CITY:
Rio de Janeiro, because of its versatility
Vanessa’s BIGGEST DISLIKE:
Dishonesty
Vanessa’s MEMORABLE EVENT:
Performing at my first rock festival and my eighteenth birthday, celebrated with a milk bath in Hong Kong and real snow created specially
Vanessa’s MUSIC COMMENT:
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. At its best, it conveys the qualities of beauty, strength and mystique. It can evoke emotions, create moods and stimulate human reaction. Of course, in the minds of people, the music which I play on the album would hardly categories me as a traditionalist practising an old art form! I have been asked if this is a ‘pop’ album whether it is a statement about what constitutes new style classical music. I don’t believe that there is an answer or even the need for such a question. Playing good music, on the violin has a very high ‘feel good’ factor. Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince – I like them all. I have always known what I like and what I don’t. What I like, I want to play. I have no wish to compart-mentalise music. To me , music with it’s beauty, strength and mystique is for enjoying and for playing. You only live once and this life, I will play the violin hopefully for most of it. I therefore intend to play just about everything I like on violin and more … this is the way of the violin player. If I never lived another day, I would say that your faith in ‘The Violin Player’ will already made it worthwhile !