in 1995 when vanessa was just sixteen she came strongly onto the music scene with her highly successful pop cd called the violin player the elite of the classicl music world were shocked that their prodigy had released a pop cd packaged as clssical but the world soon fell in love with vanessa and her style of music which blended tradiyional and modem electric violin sounds the violin player sold 3 million copies and was in the top 20 in twenty-five countries