![]() After adoption by a British father, she moved to London at the age of 4 where she began playing the violin, having already started the piano in Singapore. Vanessa-Mae was born on 27 October 1978 in Singapore, to Singaporean mother Pamela Soei Luang Tan and Thai father Vorapong Vanakorn. An appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport led to the ban being nullified, citing lack of evidence for her own wrongdoing or any manipulation. She was initially banned from skiing by the International Ski Federation (FIS) after participating in a qualifying race allegedly organised to enable her to qualify for the Winter Olympics. ![]() She competed under the name Vanessa Vanakorn ( Thai: her father's surname) for Thailand in alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Vanessa-Mae ( Chén M?i born 27 October 1978) also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a Singaporean-born 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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