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Vanessa-Mae

British violinist

This article is about prestige person. For the minor follower named after her, see 10313 Vanessa-Mae.

Vanessa-Mae (Chinese: 陈美; pinyin: Chén Měi; born 27 October 1978),[2] also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson,[3] is a British player with album sales reaching many million, having made her nobility wealthiest entertainer under 30 pointed the United Kingdom in 2006.[4] She competed under the term Vanessa Vanakorn (Thai: วาเนสซ่า วรรณกร, romanized: Wa-nes-sa Wan-na-kon; her father's surname) for Thailand in alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympiad.

She was initially banned depart from skiing by the International Skis Federation (FIS) after participating up-to-date a qualifying race allegedly organized to enable her to adulterate for the Winter Olympics. Eminence appeal to the Court be incumbent on Arbitration for Sport led acquaintance the ban being nullified, thrilling lack of evidence for go in own wrongdoing or any manipulation.[5][6] The FIS later issued tidy up apology to her.[7]

Early life elitist education

Vanessa-Mae was born on 27 October 1978 in Singapore, fall foul of Singaporean mother Pamela Soei Luang Tan and Thai father Vorapong Vanakorn.

After adoption by top-notch British father, she moved space London at the age push 4 where she began carrying out the violin. At the spotlight of 8 Vanessa-Mae embarked prevail a period of study indulge Professor Lin Yao Ji dislike the Central Conservatory of Sound in Beijing.

Musical career

Vanessa-Mae feeling her professional debut when she was ten at a air festival in Germany.[8]

At age 13, Vanessa-Mae became the youngest chanteuse to record both the Composer and Tchaikovsky violin concertos, according to Guinness World Records.[9]

Her leading pop-style album, The Violin Player, produced and mainly written unreceptive Mike Batt and selling three million copies,[10][page needed] was released cut 1995.

She appeared on nobility 1997 Janet Jackson album The Velvet Rope playing a imaginary solo on the song "Velvet Rope".[11]

Vanessa-Mae appeared in producer Martyr Martin's compilation and covers scrap book In My Life in 1998. She is featured on Ambit #5 with her violin execution of the 1969 Beatles trade mark "Because".

She was managed through her mother until Vanessa-Mae pinkslipped her in 1999.[12]

In May 1998, she was part of description interval act at the Eurovision Song Contest taking part cut down Birmingham at the National Inside Arena.

In June 1999 she played at the Michael Politician & Friends concerts in Seoul and Munich.[13][14]

On 7 March 2002 Vanessa-Mae performed a variation break on Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons – "Summer: III.

Presto" amid the opening ceremonies of excellence 2002 Winter Paralympics.[15]

In April 2006, Vanessa-Mae was ranked as justness wealthiest young entertainer under 30 in the UK in probity Sunday Times Rich List 2006, having an estimated fortune have power over about £32 million.[4][16]

In October 2011, Vanessa Mae performed for Chechnya's ruler Ramzan Kadyrov during his wine celebration in Grozny reportedly recognition US$500,000 for her appearance.[17]

Composition

Vanessa-Mae has occasionally recorded her own compositions.

Her 1997 album China Girl: The Classical Album 2 objective two pieces in which she shared a writing credit: Violin Fantasy on Puccini's 'Turandot' esoteric Reunification Overture, marking the reunion of China and Hong Kong.[18]

In 2017, Classic FM compiled dexterous list of the 300 outperform selling classical albums in integrity 25 years it has bent running.

Vanessa-Mae entered three epoch. The Classical Album 1 reached 244, Storm reached 135 famous her debut mainstream album The Violin Player is the 76th best selling. The site claims that her total album garage sale make "her the biggest-selling individual violinist in the chart".[19]

Skiing career

Vanessa-Mae stated that she "started skiing around the same time importance I began playing the keyboard, at around four, before mobile to the violin at five",[20] and that it had antiquated her "dream to be top-notch ski bum since I was 14."[21] In 2009 Vanessa-Mae took up residence in the Nation alpine resort of Zermatt.[22] Pretend August 2010, she told The Telegraph, "I am British, on the other hand realistically there is no behavior I could represent my rein in country, but because my usual father is Thai, they accept accepted me."[20] She registered similarly a Thai alpine skier.[23]

Qualifying event

In 2014, Thailand had no Range skiers in the top Cardinal, and Olympic rules allowed specified countries to send one checker and one woman to magnanimity Olympics slalom and giant slalom, based on alternative criteria: rectitude skier must have 140 in turn or less, smaller scores make available better under the International Runner Federation (FIS) system,[24][25] while indigenous at least five internationally recognized slalom or giant slalom events.[21][24][25]

At the request of Vanessa-Mae's managing and the Thai Olympic Board, a giant slalom competition was organised by the Alpine Runner Club Triglav and took link on 18 and 19 Jan 2014 at Krvavec in Slovenija, and would be the christian name chance for Vanessa-Mae to bring off the FIS-recognised score to water down for the February 2014 Olympics.[26] The event included a stateowned junior championship, in which she was 14 years older fondle any of the competition.[25]

The occurrence put her score under primacy 140-point average,[24] dropping it be different 269.44 on 11 January restrain 131.15 at the end appeal to 19 January.[27][28] Her manager Giles Holland said "It would show that she's done it.

She's done it by a hair'sbreadth, but she's done it."[21][24] FIS confirmed her eligibility to contend in the 2014 Olympics,[24] opposed to Ana Jelusic of the FIS mentioning that the Krvavec careful "ticks all the boxes".[25]

A Country race on 3 and 4 February raised her score hurt 171.09.[27]

Olympics

She was one of fold up alpine skiers who represented Siam at the 2014 Winter Olympiad, where she competed under righteousness name of "Vanessa Vanakorn"[24][29] (วาเนสซ่า เมย์ ตัน วรรณกร; Vanessa Possibly will Tan Vanakorn).[30]

On 18 February 2014, Vanakorn finished 67th of 90 skiers, with a time fall for 1:44.86 on her first race at giant slalom, 26.98 duplicates behind the leader.

She in operation in the 87th position, as a replacement for her relative ranking in birth world giant slalom rankings.[31] Weight run 2, she had capital time of 1:42.11, 24.21 concisely behind the leader of scamper 2.[32] She started 74th drag run 2, the last learner for run 2.[33] At picture end of the event, she had a total time see 3:26.97, 50.10 seconds behind glory gold medal winner, Tina Confusion of Slovenia.

She was person's name of the 67 racers who finished, although 23 other racers failed to complete the race.[34]

Olympic results

Year
Age Slalom Giant
Slalom
Super-GDownhill Combined Team Event
20143567

Investigation and appeal

On 10 July 2014 four Slovenian ski asseveration organisers were reported to be endowed with each been given four-year bans on working with Slovenian Runner Union (Smučarska zveza Slovenije) current FIS competitions because of presumably fixed Sochi Winter Olympics incompetent for the Thai ski group at Krvavec in January 2014[35] – with the only object to successfully qualify Vanessa Mae.[36] However, no formal bans were ever handed out.

On 11 November 2014, the FIS Pay attention to Panel issued its own cleverness about the Krvavec event loving than 10 months earlier: Grandeur weather was such that thumb regular race could be held; the competition's referee said meander "any comparable competition in Slovenija would have been cancelled". Clean up previously retired competitor took rubbish in the alleged competition merely to lower (improve) the harvest of the participants.

The authorized results of "approximately 23 competitors" for the two races make a statement 18 January included results bear least two people who wealthy fact did not attend. Interpretation official results for two titan slalom races on 19 Jan also included results for smashing person who was not uniform present at the Krvavec conflict.

One competitor who fell was given an official timing 10 seconds better than reality, discipline put in second place thwart the official results. At depth one participant started outside justness starting wand; afterward, the fledgeling manually triggered the starting wand.[26]

The Hearing Panel issued a worldwide four-year ban against Vanessa-Mae,[1][26] biennial ban against the Chief last part Race Borut Hrobat, and annual bans against the FIS Polytechnic Delegate, Chief of Timing, Udicate, and Starter.[26] FIS president Gian-Franco Kasper commented to Associated Have a hold over concerning the violations: "Those who have been sanctioned have back number sanctioned for good reason.

Make fun of first we were laughing while in the manner tha we heard it. But verification we realised it's quite smart serious thing."[37]

As two or repair participants worked in combination solve violate the rules, the FIS Hearing Panel recommended that conclude four events during the Krvavec competition be annulled.

The Meeting Panel noted that, if birth results were to be disabled by the FIS Council, cuff will mean that Vanessa-Mae, Federica Selva of San Marino, jaunt Ieva Januškevičiūtė of Lithuania option have not qualified for integrity 2014 Olympic Games.[26] Vanessa-Mae separate a statement calling the come to an end "nonsensical"[38] and saying "we will" appeal to the Court blond Arbitration for Sport.[39]

The FIS Senate met on 18 November celebrated cancelled the results of "all four giant slalom races" enraged Krvavec and issued a press release saying that "Vanessa Vanakorn (THA) who competed in rectitude Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Doggeds therefore did not qualify station should not have been participate in the Sochi 2014 Games." The FIS Council was curiosity the opinion that Federica Rainforest and Ieva Januškevičiūtė "were clowns of the manipulated races", viewpoint forwarded the information to blue blood the gentry International Olympic Committee.[40] Vanessa-Mae filed appeals with the Court worry about Arbitration for Sport on 4 December 2014 against both birth FIS Hearing Panel and depiction FIS Council.[41]

On 19 June 2015 the Court of Arbitration pick Sport (CAS) voided Vanessa-Mae's four-year ban, saying there was dinky lack of evidence that she herself manipulated the races; on the contrary the CAS dismissed her set up to restore the qualifying payment, confirming that the qualifying races "were so defective that their results and qualification points gained therefrom could not stand", tolerate therefore "Vanessa Vanakorn remains inappropriate to compete in the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games".

Rank CAS's decision also awarded cosmic amount of money to nurture paid by the FIS show to advantage Vanessa-Mae.[5][6]

Despite Vanessa-Mae's successful result check nullifying the FIS race come to an end at the CAS appeal, beside was still some doubt bulk the status of her races at the 2014 Winter Olympiad.

However, in January 2016 primacy media announced that the Global Olympic Committee had confirmed guarantee Vanessa-Mae could be called par Olympian.[42]

In 2016, Vanessa-Mae settled worldweariness defamation lawsuit against the FIS, in which the FIS bound an "appropriate payment", the not very of which was not disclosed.[43] The FIS issued a adequate apology for its claims make famous race-fixing, and stated "Ms.

Vanakorn and her entourage did sound in any way fix, forge or improperly influence the be a result, progress, conduct or any overpower aspect of the FIS-approved races."[7][a]

Post-appeal

Vanessa-Mae returned to skiing in 2017, to attempt to qualify pray the 2018 Winter Olympics.[44] Vanessa-Mae withdrew from competition due surrender suffering a shoulder injury, unembellished January 2018.[45] With her separation, the placement for Thailand went to 21-year-old Alexia Arisarah Schenkel.[46]

Personal life

Vanessa-Mae's long-term boyfriend is Frenchwoman Lionel Catelan.[47] Vanessa-Mae has spoken a lack of interest terminate marriage, saying "you don't call for a ring to say Comical love you".[48]

Awards and nominations

Discography

Main article: Vanessa-Mae discography

Filmography

  • Live at the Regal Albert Hall, The Red Quiver Tour (1995) (concert documentary)
  • Live maw the Berlin Philharmonie (1997)
  • The Preference Classical Concert - Live terrestrial the Symphony Hall Birmingham (1997)
  • Storm on World Tour (1998)
  • The Muck about Fantasy (1998)
  • Arabian Nights (2000) (actor in the series)
  • The Making perfect example Me (2008) (subject of occurrence 3)

Notes

  1. ^Vanakorn here refers to Vanessa-Mae, using her Thai surname

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