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Vanessa Mae [1978-0] Chinese

Rank: 101
Musician, Violinist

Vanessa-Mae is a British violinist with album sales reaching several million, having made her the wealthiest entertainer under 30 in the United Kingdom in 2006.

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I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.		101
In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.	Home	102
In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.		103
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.		104
People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.		105
Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.		106
Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.		107
The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.		108
I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.		109
I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.		110
To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.		111
For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.		112
Music is about the performance.		113
But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.		114
But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.		115
All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.		116
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.		117
But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.		118
But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.		119
I don't mind about the boos from the audience.		120
When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.		121
Music will always be my greatest passion.		122

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