Vanessa Mae
Vanessa-Mae Vanessa-Mae at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 21 October 2004 Born (1978-10-27) 27 October 1978 (age 36) Singapore Residence London, United Kingdom[citation needed] Nationality British Other names Vanessa Vanakorn Occupation Violinist Musician Years active 1990–present Musical career Genres Classical techno electronic pop Instruments violin Labels Sony Classical/SME Virgin/EMI EMI Classics Website vanessamaeofficial.com Vanessa-Mae (born 27 October 1978), 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, but months later was banned from competition after the event that qualified her for the Olympics was found to have been manipulated and therefore, according to the International Ski Federation (FIS), she "did not qualify and should not have been participating in the Sochi 2014 Games." She has appealed the ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.