page_title: Vanessa-Mae
section_title: Musical career
hierarchical_section_title: Vanessa-Mae / Musical career
caption_attribution_description: English: Vanessa-Mae at Royal Festival Hall, London Deutsch: Vanessa-Mae beim „Royal Festival Hall“ in London
context_page_description: Vanessa-Mae also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, 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 Vanakorn for 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 manipulation. The International Ski Federation later had to issue an apology to her.
context_section_description: At age thirteen, Vanessa-Mae became the youngest soloist to record both the Beethoven and Tchaikovsky violin concertos, according to Guinness World Records.
  Her first pop-style album, The Violin Player, was released in 1995. She appeared on the 1997 Janet Jackson album The Velvet Rope playing a violin solo on the song "Velvet Rope".
  She was managed by her mother until Vanessa-Mae fired her in 1999.
  In June 1999 she played at the Michael Jackson & Friends concerts in Seoul and Munich.
  On 7 March 2002 Vanessa-Mae performed a variation of Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons – "Summer: III. Presto" during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Paralympics.
  In April 2006, Vanessa-Mae was ranked as the wealthiest young entertainer under 30 in the UK in the Sunday Times Rich List 2006, having an estimated fortune of about £32 million.
caption: Vanessa-Mae in 2004
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