้้้้้ีher full name is vanessa-mae vanakorn nicholson.she was born in 1978,in singapore,but moved to london at the age of four.she has a thai father and a chinese mother.she started playing the piano when she was three and began the violin at five.she was raised in england,where she continued to study the violin and have lessons.by the time she was 13,she was an international star and the youngest person ever to record both the tchaikovsky and beethoven violin concertos.in 1995,she relesed her first pop album,the violin player.critics around the world loved her unique blend of classical and pop music.since this success,she has made many best-selling albums and has sold over ten million albums worldwide.