List of previous VMSPOS site updates
 

Contents of the VMSPOS home page have been transferred to this section. An chronological overview of the Vanessa-Mae news in 2010 is available at Vanessa-Mae news archives 2010. News over previous years can be tracked via Vanessa-Mae news archives overview. These news archives contain chronological lists by year of all the news about Vanessa-Mae where it comes to concert dates, public appearances, releases, and many more related to her whereabouts and activities in that particular year.

2010 update # 33 of August 14

Vanessa-Mae news: The Telegraph quotes Vanessa-Mae in a headline as follows

Vanessa-Mae: I want to be an Olympic skier

 The Telegraph elaborated further on Vanessa-Mae's plans to participate in the Olympic winter games of Sochi for Thailand in a report on a conversation that they had with her Swiss alpine apartment in Zermatt. A highlight are the following lines from the article show that Vanessa-Mae realises very well that that way into the Olympics will long and difficult :

Vanessa is realistic about her skiing ambitions. Yes, she concedes, there is pressure that those accustomed to her success in the music world will expect the same level of accomplishment. “But it has been my dream, and I am hoping people will accept I just want to give it my best. 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. I am taking a plunge. I am British, but realistically there is no way I could represent my own country, but because my natural father is Thai, they have accepted me.”

Part of the conversation in Zermatt also involved Vanessa-Mae's musical career.

Vanessa-Mae: Don’t underestimate how important my music is to me. It is still my life’s passion. It is still the essence of who I am. It is just that I am more relaxed now.

Vanessa-Mae mentioned that she is working on a new project, though no indication for a release schedule was given by her. The Telegraph quoted Vanessa-Mae as follows:

It involves dance and music – not me dancing, you understand. Taking up ballet at 31 isn’t an option. But I have long been keen to amalgamate my style of music with dance.

source: The Telegraph

2010 update # 32 of August 8

Unknown video of Vanessa-Mae with J.D. Wood - I still can hear your voice - found at You Tube.
This week, we discovered a new video of Vanessa-Mae on You Tube that was unknown to us so far. The video is the clip for the cd single I still can hear your voice that Vanessa-Mae did with J.D. wood in 2002. The video is shown below in embedded player. The cover for the cd single can be viewed in Vanessa-Mae discography and via the bookmarked link above.

source: Sheidywood channel at You Tube

2010 update # 31 of July 31

Vanessa-Mae news: Various media report that Vanessa-Mae plans to start for Thailand at the 2014 winter Olympics of Sochi as down hill skier.
Various media in Thailand, Germany and the UK report that Vanessa-Mae plans to start as down hill skier for Thailand during the coming winter Olympic of Sochi in 2014. According to the media, the Thai Olympic Committee approved Vanessa-Mae's participation, who is now awaiting final approval from the International Ski Federation. Final confirmation from Vanessa-Mae herself on this issue is still lacking. 

Vanessa-Mae was said to ski for Thailand already during the 2002 Winter Olympics of Salt lake City. At that time, Thailand insisted that Vanessa-Mae should give up her UK nationality in order to get a Thai passport, which Vanessa-Mae was not willing to do. However, in 2002, Vanessa-Mae was granted the Thai nationality, because Thailand felt that the country benefits from merits and achievements of people like Vanessa-Mae who have Thai ancestry.    

sources:  Bangkok Post 1, Bangkok Post 2, Moscow News, A-Z News, Pro Sieben, Female First, The Independent and The Sun

Vanessa-Mae chronicle
The new Vanessa-Mae chronicle for August is now available and deals with Vanessa-Mae visiting the International Cartier Polo Days in Windsor. The first lines of the story are as follows:

Vanessa-Mae is known to be quite reserved when it comes to attending so-called celebrity parties and gatherings. We have seen her at various events that were organised and sponsored by Audi cars, primarily in her role as VIP user of this brand of automobiles - Vanessa-Mae and Lionel own several Audi cars themselves! An event she has also frequently visited the past years is the preview for VIP's of the summer exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in London - we will write about these events in the future as we have many nice photos of her attending these. Other events that she has visited are ballet evenings, movie premieres, launch parties of fashion and jewelleries stores, and fashion shows.

To read the full story, do go to the Vanessa-Mae chronicle!

New photo gallery 15 available.
VMSPOS has a new gallery 15 available with some wonderful shots of Vanessa-Mae when she visited the International Cartier polo days in Windsor in 2008 and 2009. Below are a few examples of the 20 images that the new gallery holds. Do go to gallery 15 to view all the images and read our descriptions. The photos of this new gallery  are also used in this months Vanessa-Mae chronicle

2010 update # 30 of July 25

Vanessa-Mae news: Vanessa-Mae will give a concert at the Siemens Arena of Vilnius, Lithuania, on December 18.
Makroconcert Agency announced that Vanessa-Mae will give a concert at the Siemens Arena of Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. Tickets will be priced between 80-200Ltl (about Euro 23-58). Presales of the first stock of 300 tickets started already last July 21, the remainder of the tickets will go on general sale on Monday July 26 at 10:00am local time via the booking office Tiketa.

source: Makroconcert, Tiketa, Goole news translate (automatic translation of Google news by Google translate)

Vanessa-Mae news: Dutch television broadcasted The Making Of Me with Vanessa-Mae last Thursday, July 22.
Dutch television channel 3 broadcasted the BBC documentary The Making Of Me with Vanessa-Mae last Thursday evening, July 22, at 9:00pm CET. The show with Vanessa-Mae attracted some 242,000 viewers in the Netherlands. The first episode with John Barrowman, broadcasted the previous week, attracted about 219,000. These numbers are quite good for a documentary after prime time, especially considering the fact that the programs dealt with non-domestic celebrities that are not too familiar in the Netherlands. How many people have been viewing the shows in the surrounding countries that might be able to see Dutch television, is unknown.

source: Dutch television and radio rating agency

2010 update # 29 of July 18

Vanessa-Mae news: The Making of Me broadcasted by Dutch television on Thursday, July 22 at 21:00 on Channel 3.
Last Thursday, July 15, Dutch television channel 3 aired the first episode of the BBC documentary series The Making Of Me. The second episode with Vanessa-Mae is scheduled to be broadcasted on Thursday July 22 at 21:00 on channel 3. The Making Of Me follows the search of three outspoken British celebrities for answers about the origin of their talents. They ask the question: was it nature or nurture that made me to who I am; in other words: is talent primarily determined by our genes, or by life style, social upbringing and practising. The series highlights musical star and known homosexual John Barrowman, athlete Colin Jackson and violinist Vanessa-Mae in their quest for answers, and was broadcasted by the BBC in the summer of 2008. To find the answers, all three were subjected to (semi) scientific tests and were examined  by specialists from various disciplines like psychologists, physicians, and neurologists.  An extensive review with screen captures of the episode with Vanessa-Mae is available at VMSPOS, see Vanessa-Mae: The Making Of Me.

New collection acquisitions: 11 new photos
We recently acquired the 11 photos shown below for our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae. A brief description of the photos and the events follows below the table.

photo 1	photo 2	photo 3	photo 4
photo 5	photo 6	photo 7
photo 8	photo 9	photo 10	photo 11

photo 1: This photo was made in 1995 at one of Vanessa-Mae's Red Hot Tour concerts in the UK. Look at her eyes and brows to see that Vanessa-Mae was already heavily made up at her concerts even as a young girl of 15-16 years. At his concert, Vanessa-Mae was in an elegant black dress with flower print in green and red, and she had a cross pendant dangling at a nice tiny necklace visible in the V-opening of the dress. This photo is available in gallery 2 of our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae.
photo 2: This photo is part of a series that was made in 1997 for the promotion of her album China Girl. Vanessa-Mae wears a wig and a dramatic midnight blue lace cheongsam from Shanghai Tang. Do notice Vanessa-Mae's perfectly shaped eye brows that have been defined with a black pencil to sharp lines on top of her covering make-up, she also had lots of mascara defining her lashes. This photo is available in gallery 8 of our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae. We have several more photos of this session and these will be added in one of the coming weeks too.
photo 3: This photo was made in May of 2001 when Vanessa-Mae did a few surprise impromptu appearances in London to promote her new album Subject To Change, and at the same time to raise money for charity. This particular photo was made on Trafalgar Square, and is available in gallery 6 of our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae. Other photos of this event will be added soon as well. Vanessa-Mae looked splendid in a bright red T-shirt and blue denim jeans.
photo 4: Vanessa-Mae photographed together with David Tang, owner of the Shanghai Tang fashion stores, at the launch party for Jade Jewellers store in London on September 15 of 2002. Obviously David Tang had a few drinks, already. Vanessa-Mae was in a wonderful long and elegant black dress, and she was beautifully made up, moderately and certainly not overdone: she looked fantastic there!
photo 5: Vanessa-Mae and lady Sarah Ferguson, joking with a clown at a gale evening in London on November 23 of 2002. Obviously, Vanessa-Mae and Sarah Ferguson were having a good time. Vanessa-Mae was gorgeous in a multi-coloured silk dress. The red lipstick and defined eyes indicate that Vanessa-Mae's face was considerable made up that evening, which looked fantastic in combination with the fine dress. This photo is not available in any gallery yet.
photo 6: Vanessa-Mae portrayed at a movie premiere in London on October 1 of 2003. Vanessa-Mae was gorgeous in a sturdy outfit of black pants, a definitely fantastic white sleeveless T-shirt with V-neck, and the white cap on her shining long black hair served as an well-found attribute in her presentation. The excessively used deep red lipstick in her face wear contrasted brilliantly with the white of the T-shirt and cap. All in all, a first-rate presentation of Vanessa-Mae. This photo is not available in any gallery yet, but we will come back to this as we have several more photos of this event in our collection.
photo 7:  Vanessa-Mae and Lionel at the Cartier international polo day in Windsor on July 29 of 2007. Vanessa-Mae was conservatively in a flowery silk blue to purple dress; here on the photo she hides her face that was perfectly made up - see the red lipstick that was excessively used - behind large dark sunglasses. This photo is not available in any gallery yet, but we will come back to this as we have several more photos of this event in our collection.
photos 8 and 9: Vanessa-Mae photographed in Barcelona on November 26 of 2009, when she attended the opening ceremonial evening of the new facilities of Mandarin Hotel Group there. Vanessa-Mae endorses the Mandarin Hotel Group via the I am A Fan promotion campaign. In return, the Mandarin Hotel Group donated money to the RSPCA  - The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Vanessa-Mae was in an elegant strapless black dress; the red lipstick contrasted nicely against her rather pale complexion.
photo 10 and 11: On December 4 of 2009, Vanessa-Mae attended the ceremonial opening of the new facilities of Mandarin Hotel Group in Las Vegas. Vanessa-Mae engaged in the ritual cutting of the ribbon. On photo 10, she examines the large scissors to be used in the ceremony. Photo 11 shows all the dignitaries lined up for the ribbon cutting. Vanessa-Mae had a fine blue shining dress of creased satin material. Vanessa-Mae's face was nicely made up, not too descriptive but still obviously present.

New photo gallery 14 now online:
As was announced sometime ago already, we now made a series of photos of Vanessa-Mae in front of Kensington Palace in London now available in a new gallery 14. Do follow the link to see the complete series and read the descriptions.

2010 update # 28 of July 11

Vanessa-Mae news:
There is currently no news about Vanessa-Mae available. Stay tuned at this site to learn the latest as soon as information becomes available to VMSPOS.

2010 update # 27 of July 4

Vanessa-Mae news:
There is currently no news about Vanessa-Mae available. Stay tuned at this site to learn the latest as soon as information becomes available to VMSPOS.

2010 update # 26 of June 27

Vanessa-Mae news:
June 20, 2010, Vanessa-Mae visited Belarus for the first time in her career to do a concert on Sunday.
Vanessa-Mae visited Minsk, capital city of Belarus, for the first time in her career for a concert. Vanessa-Mae did a sold out concert in the Sports Palace of Minsk on Sunday, June 20 of 2010. Earlier that day, she met with journalists and officials in a press conference. At her press conference, Vanessa-Mae was dress in a light white dotted lavender purple top bordered with black along the short sleeves and neckline, a tiny necklace dangling in the wide cut on her breast. Vanessa-Mae had her hair styled to her back, and her face was nicely made up to an immaculate complexion and beautiful pink lipstick. At the concert, Vanessa-Mae was in  blue jeans and matching blue V-necked T-shirt with an interesting animal print - see the video embedded below to get an impression.

source: Vanessa-Mae in Minsk, Belarus on Belarus official Press Center. and Vanessa-Mae in Minsk, Belarus on Belarusvision YouTube channel

Comments by VMSPOS: We are still looking to find photos of Vanessa-Mae at the press conference and at her concert. Please fee free to send us an email via the contact link with any photos, stories and impressions.

Vanessa-Mae chronicle # 6 of 2010
VMSPOS is delighted to announce that we have CarrollTowerCX as guest writer for this months Vanessa-Mae chronicle. If anyone is interested in writing a chronicle of to submit any material to one of our future updates of VMSPOS, then please contact us via this email link - [REMOVE NO SPAM] from the address bar!!!!

Below are the first lines of the Story written by CarrollTowerCX.

Vanessa-Mae’s Parental Background: Her Own Life With Lionel and Outlook on Marriage.
Or Why Marriage is Not In the Near Future For Vanessa-Mae.

As all devoted and loyal fans of Vanessa-Mae know, she was born as Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn, on October 27, 1978, in Singapore.

This is by the way the 196th birthday of that great Violinist and Composer Niccolo Paganini. It is also the 300th day of the year. Her father was Varaprong Vanakorn, of Thai decent. Her mother was Pamela Tan who is of Chinese decent. Her mothers family had considerable holdings in Mainland China, which were confiscated in the Communist takeover, although some of it has since been returned. Her father Varaprong, was Manager of a Hotel in Singapore. Her mother Pamela, was a Lawyer and also a professional Concert Pianist. So as you can see, even at this early date, Vanessa-Mae lived an above average and cultured life in Singapore.

To read the full story, do go to the Vanessa-Mae Chronicle

2010 update # 25 of June 20

Vanessa-Mae news: Vanessa-Mae gives a concert in Minsk today, Sunday June 20, 2010, in the Sport Palace.

sources: Vanessa-Mae at Merlin Music and Live, European radio for Belarus (translated via Google Translate) and Allstars.by

Comments by VMSPOS: We will try to bring you photos and/or reports of the concert as soon as we get any information. Moreover, we will link to possible videos of the concert that might become available on You Tube. We ask if you have been at Vanessa-Mae's to be so kind to send us an email via the contact link with any photos, stories and impressions.

2010 update # 24 of June 13

Vanessa-Mae news:
There is currently no news about Vanessa-Mae available. Stay tuned at this site to learn the latest as soon as information becomes available to VMSPOS.

Vanessa-Mae's upcoming concert Sunday next week
Vanessa-Mae's first ever concert in Minsk, capital of Belarus, next Sunday is rapidly approaching. Tickets cost are 75,000-350,000 rub (about Euro 20.50-93.00), and are on sale at the venue and via Allstars.by online. We do not know whether tickets are still available or whether the concert is sold out already.

sources: Vanessa-Mae at Merlin Music and Live, European radio for Belarus (translated via Google Translate) and Allstars.by

2010 update # 23 of June 6

Vanessa-Mae news: Gerald Drucker, one of Vanessa-Mae's mentors, has died at the age 84 on March 19 of 2010.
Gerald Drucker, one of Vanessa-Mae's mentors, has died at the age of 84 on March 19, 2010, The Telegraph reported on June 4. Gerald Drucker played in the  Philharmonia Orchestra of London till his retirement in 1990. After his retirement, Gerald Drucker organised thee anniversary Far East tour of the London Mozart Players in 1991, during which Vanessa-Mae would act as soloist. During that period, Vanessa-Mae was among his students.

source: The Telegraph

Vanessa-Mae on the internet
We recently found that Symmetry and Sounds has a page dedicated to Vanessa-Mae, see: Vanessa-Mae at Symmetry and Sounds. The page provides some basic biographical facts and a fine selection of photos of Vanessa-Mae. Symmetry and Sounds lists artist ranging form Vanessa-Mae, Anne Sophie Mutter, Diana Krall, Michelle Branch to Pat Benatar.

New photo gallery
We placed the photos that were used in the current Vanessa-Mae Chronicle is a new gallery 13 of our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae.

2010 update # 22 of May 30

Vanessa-Mae news:
There is currently no news about Vanessa-Mae available. Stay tuned at this site to learn the latest as soon as information becomes available to VMSPOS.

Vanessa-Mae chronicle:
The new Vanessa-Mae chronicle for the month May with the title Vanessa-Mae and the Classical Brit Awards of 2004 is now available. The first lines are depicted below:

Last May 13, The Classical Brit Awards were awarded. The Classical Brit Awards are prizes for achievements in the classical music field that are awarded annually since the inaugural edition in 2000. The Classical Brit Awards can be compared to The Brit Awards for pop, contemporary and mainstream music achievements. In 2000, at the inaugural Classical Brit Awards evening, Vanessa-Mae opened the show with a superb and spectacular performance of her blockbuster hit Storm. She played on her acoustic Guadagnini violin, and was accompanied by two other violinists, of which one was Vasko Vassilev. The video of Vanessa-Mae's performance is available at our Vanessa-Mae channel on YouTube and is presented below in embedded player.

To read the full story, do go to Vanessa-Mae chronicle.

2010 update # 21 of May 23

Vanessa-Mae news: Vanessa-Mae will give  a concert in Minsk, Belarus on June 20 of 2010
Vanessa-Mae will perform a live concert at the Palace of Sports venue in Minsk, capital of Belarus on June 20 of 2010. This concert marks Vanessa-Mae first visit to Belarus. The venue can hold an audience of about 5,500 people. Tickets cost are 75,000-350,000 rub (about Euro 20.50-93.00), and are on sale at the venue and via Allstars.by online.

sources: Vanessa-Mae at Merlin Music and Live, European radio for Belarus (translated via Google Translate) and Allstars.by

Vanessa-Mae news: Vanessa-Mae is mentioned as one of the top 10 ranked of music's greatest child prodigies of our modern times
Vanessa-Mae is ranked in the top 10 of music's greatest child prodigies of our modern times by Music UK and Ireland. Vanessa-Mae comes fifth after Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Britney Spears and Charlotte Church.

Comments by VMSPOS: We think that the first top ranks for Michael Jackson and Stevie wonder are undisputed, but why Vanessa-Mae comes behind Britney Spears and Charlotte Church is unsatisfying to us. Of course we are biased but, nevertheless we feel we have a case to rank Vanessa-Mae third or fourth at least.

source: Music UK and Ireland

New collection acquisitions:
We recently managed to acquire the 10 photos shown below into our collection of Vanessa-Mae material. A brief description of the photos follows below.

photo 1	photo 2	photo 3	photo 4	photo 5
photo 6	photo 7	photo 8	photo 9	photo 10

photo 1: Vanessa-Mae at a photo session during October of 2004 with a Dutch photographer when she travelled through Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on her way to the far east (South Korea and Taiwan) for promotion of her new album Choreography. Vanessa-Mae was in a fine silk lilac dress with a very low cut open back. Vanessa-Mae's wonderful long black hair was in free style on her back, and her face was a perfectly smooth complexion in which the excessively used deep red lipstick appeared prominently.
photo 2: Vanessa-Mae and Lionel at the Cartier international polo day in Windsor on July 29 of 2007. Vanessa-Mae was conservatively in a flowery silk blue to purple dress; here on the photo she hides her face that was perfectly made up - see the red lipstick that was excessively used - behind large dark sunglasses.
photo 3: Vanessa-Mae visited a Chinese New Year party in 2008 that was held in the Mandarin Hotel in London on February 5. She was rather casual in blue jeans and a simple white cotton vest.
photo 4: Close up of Vanessa-Mae during her concert in the O2 Arena of Prague on September 24 of 2008. The photo was taken from below the stage in an upward angle. The incidence of the lights clearly shows Vanessa-Mae enormously make up visage- do notice the flawless and smooth complexion, the dark purple eye shadow, the deep red lipstick, and eye brows shaped to perfect lines.
photo 5: Vanessa-Mae photographed at her arrival at VIP preview of the summer exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts on June 3 of 2009. She was in a simple black and white striped cotton dress. With only red lipstick and some minor eye definition of brief shadow and with some black mascara and liner, Vanessa-Mae looked quite natural.
photos 6 and 7: Two fantastic close-ups of a beautifully looking Vanessa-Mae when she attended the ceremonial opening of the new facilities of the Mandarin Hotel Group in Las Vegas on December 4 of 2009.
photos 8 and 9: After ceremonial opening of the new facilities of the Mandarin Hotel Group in Las Vegas on December 4 of 2009, a gala diner was presented for the distinguished guests. Vanessa-Mae took care for a musical setting with a fine performance of a selection of her repertoire. For her performance, Vanessa-Mae was in a long bright red evening dress. Her hair was tied to her back so that her beautiful face was fully exposed to show all the details of the heavy make up -  see the bright red lipstick matching the colour of the dress, the flawless complexion and the lashes with lots of mascara throwing shadows below the eyes.
photo 10: On December 12 of 2009, Vanessa-Mae engaged in a concert in the Crocus City Hall of Moscow. She appeared in the same red dress as she had in Las Vegas (see photos 8-9). Vanessa-Mae had the same hair style, and the obvious heavy face wear was also prominently visible as it was at the Las Vegas show.

2010 update # 20 of May 16

Vanessa-Mae news:
There is currently no news about Vanessa-Mae available. Stay tuned at this site to learn the latest as soon as information becomes available to VMSPOS.

2010 update # 19 of May 9

Vanessa-Mae news: Vanessa-Mae will perform in  a live concert on November 20, 2010, in Bucharest, Rumania.
Vanessa-Mae will give a concert in Bucharest, capital of Rumania, on November 20 of 2010. Venue for the concert is the Sala Palatului. This concert marks Vanessa-Mae's first visit to and performance in Rumania. A previous concert that was scheduled for November 30 in 2008, was cancelled for unknown reasons, see our Vanessa-Mae news archives of 2008. Ticket sales for the newly scheduled concert have not started yet, but tickets will be available at the Sala Palatului office and website, and online via Eventim Rumania and Ticket point in due time. Cost for tickets will be within the range of 100-250 Lei (24-60 euro). We have added the new concert date to the Tour dates of Vanessa-Mae section of VMSPOS.

source: Cotidianul, Evenimentul, Ticket point and best music

2010 update # 18 of May 2

Vanessa-Mae news: Vanessa-Mae will give a concert in  Ludwigsburg, Germany, on September 3, 2010
Vanessa-Mae will perform in a single concert in Ludwigsburg, Germany, on September 3, 2010. The concert will take place in the Residenzschloss. Vanessa-Mae will be accompanied by her band and a string orchestra. This will probable be the only concert of Vanessa-Mae in Germany this year. Tickets can be ordered online via Eventim and are available in the price range from Euro 49.40 till Euro 95.40. There are still tickets available in all price categories, but a sold out can be expected on rather short notice.

source: Eventim Germany

Comments by VMSPOS: We managed to get a ticket. VMSPOS will report on the concert with an extensive review and photos. This concert has been added to the Tour dates of Vanessa-Mae section.

Vanessa-Mae News of April 24, 2010: Vanessa-Mae attended a Cinderella ballet in The Royal Opera House, London, that was sponsored by Audi.
Vanessa-Mae attended a Cinderella ballet in the Royal Opera House on April 24 of 2010. The performance was sponsored by Audi. Vanessa-Mae attended the show as VIP user of Audi. The photo below shows Vanessa-Mae posing with an Audi car at her arrival. She looked rather casual in a shabby pair of light blue denim jeans and a nice green short jacket with ruffle collar. Do mark the excessively used red lipstick as only decorative highlight in her make-up.

source: Life Photo Agency

Comments by VMSPOS: This is the first event that we know of that we see Vanessa-Mae in public. This also marks the first photo that we have of Vanessa-Mae in 2010!

2010 update # 17 of April 25

Vanessa-Mae chronicle and a new photo gallery
The Vanessa-Mae chronicle with the title Vanessa-Mae endorsing Rover and Mercedes, and the new photo gallery 12 of our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae are combined this month. The first lines of the story and 3 of the photos used are shown below:

Vanessa-Mae acted in two promotion campaigns for automobiles in 1999 and 2000. At that time she didn't had her own license yet. The two brands that she endorsed were Rover (1999) and Mercedes. This chronicle describes Vanessa-Mae's involvement and shows photos of Vanessa-Mae that were made during both the campaigns and that were  used to promote the underlying commodity.

To read the full text, and to see all the photos, do go to The Vanessa-Mae chronicle or gallery 12

Vanessa-Mae at the internet
Adoi Magazine of April 20, 2010, has interesting article about The Mandarin Hotel Group and The Fan of the Mandarin Hotels campaign that they use to promote their facilities that are located all over the world. As most fans probable, Vanessa-Mae is fan of the Mandarin Hotel Group as well, and she acts in the campaign, see the promo below. In return for being a fan, the Mandarin Hotel group spends USD 10,000 to a charity of choice of that fan. For Vanessa-Mae, Mandarin endorses The RSPCA - The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Among other famous and influential celebrities acting as fan are Sigourney Weaver, Brian Ferry, Michelle Yeoh, Lance Armstrong, Helen Mirren, Sir David Tang and I. M. Pei.

The article describes how the fame of celebrities can be used to promote a brand, and what the conditions are to make it a successful collaboration. They mention three aspects and Vanessa-Mae certainly fulfils these beyond any doubt. These aspects are as follows:

Attractiveness of the celebrity
Credibility of the celebrity
Meaning transfer between the celebrity and the brand

Read the article to find out the meaning of these terms.

2010 update # 16 of April 18

Vanessa-Mae news:
There is currently no news about Vanessa-Mae available. Stay tuned at this site to learn the latest as soon as information becomes available to VMSPOS.

2010 update # 15 of April 11

Vanessa-Mae fans forum (VMF) and Four Seasons of Vanessa-Mae are back on-line!
The Vanessa-Mae fans forum and The Four Seasons of Vanessa-Mae website are back on-line after moving to a new server.

2010 update # 14 of April 3

Vanessa-Mae fans forum (VMF) and Four Seasons of Vanessa-Mae website are currently off-line
The Vanessa-Mae fans forum and The Four Seasons of Vanessa-Mae website are currently off-line. After moving to a new server, the site owner needs to re-point the url's accordingly. Hopefully, this will be done on short notice.

Recent collection acquisitions
VMSPOS recently acquired the 9 photos shown below for our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae. A brief description follows below.

The 3 photos of Vanessa-Mae on the top line were made in 1997 or 1998 during a concert of the Storm On World Tour - we have no knowledge about the exact venue and date, though! At this concert, Vanessa-Mae was in a wonderful silk long dress with panther print design. Obviously, Vanessa-Mae was heavily made up at this concert, look at the strongly accentuated brows and her eyes in a complete smooth complexioned visage. These 3 photos are placed in gallery 4. The photo on the left of the middle row was made at Vanessa-Mae's Original Four Seasons Tour in 1999 at her Vienna concert on May 27. This photo is be part of gallery 5. At this concert in Vienna, Vanessa-Mae had short hair and looked casual in black pants and a black sleeveless undershirt. The next photo was made during Vanessa-Mae's special performance on March 7 of 2000 at the Rado Headquarters in Basel where she was credited for her role in the promotion campaign of the new Ovation model. This photo is now available in gallery 5. The photo to the right on the middle row was made made in 2001 when Vanessa-Mae did a photo shot in Moscow during a visit there to promote her new album Subject To Change. Vanessa-Mae was dressed rather casually in jeans and a denim jacket, and she had spike heeled black boots. Her face was perfectly complexioned with crème, powder with a finishing touch of deep red lipstick, and she had eye definition with mascara and liner. A new gallery where this photo will be available will be started in the near future.

The photo on the left of the bottom raw was made during a concert for the Tour For Change, probable end 2001 or 2002. Vanessa-Mae looked quite casual as she mostly did during this period of her career, with a fine red cotton sleeveless top and blue jeans. Remarkable, Vanessa-Mae did not looked made up, this in contrast to so many other concerts where a perfectly applied make-up was a prominent tool in her presentations to gain attention. The photo is available in gallery 6. The photo in the middle of the bottom row was made on February 19 of 2003 when Vanessa-Mae and Lionel attended the Julien McDonald fashion show in London. Vanessa-Mae was in a fine blue sleeveless top and purple trousers, and she was only moderately made up. This photo is not part of any gallery yet. The final photo to the right was made in 2003 on June 28 when she performed in a special concert to highlight the opening of the new Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) in Cape Town, South Africa. During the evening, she also joined the stage with South African star Sibongile Khumalo. Many dignitaries, including President Thabo Mbeki, attended the evening. A this event, Vanessa-Mae was in a fine multi-coloured dotted top and white pair of trousers. Also, Vanessa-Mae's face was heavily made up as can be seen from the excessively used bright red lipstick in a flawless and smooth complexioned visage. This photo is available in gallery 6.

2010 update # 13 of March 27

New Vanessa-Mae Chronicle available
The new Vanessa-Mae chronicle with the title Vanessa-Mae On The Cover of Magazines is now available. The first lines of the story are as follows:

The musical phenomenon and beautiful Vanessa-Mae has attracted great attention from media throughout her career. Several documentaries for television have been made, and she was the topic of an numerous of articles in newspapers and magazine, not to mention that her name was mentioned in an innumerable amount of publications dealing with other artists and music in general. Moreover, Vanessa-Mae is one of the most photographed celebrities world wide in fashion and special photo sessions, and during public appearances, of which many of the images have been used to illustrate the newspapers articles.

Having your image as cover photos of any magazine is the dream of all celebrities since it assures the best possible exposure to gain attention from the public eye. Over the years, Vanessa-Mae's image has been the cover photo of many magazines. VMSPOS managed to acquire several of these magazines in our collection, and these are shown below. No doubt, our collection is not complete, and more magazines with Vanessa-Mae on the cover exist. We are constantly busy in trying to expand our collection.

To read the full story and see which magazines with Vanessa-Mae on the cover photo VMSPOS has in its collections, do go to Vanessa-Mae Chronicle.

2010 update # 12 of March 21

Recording studios?
VMSPOS recently received questions in which studios Vanessa-Mae recorded her albums. In general the booklets provide information like this, as well as other technical data. So far, we did not use any of these data in our reviews of the various albums. Because interests in this information exists, we update our reviews of the albums by specifying the studio in which the album was recorded. A list is given below.

2010 update # 11 of March 14

Vanessa-Mae news
There is currently no news about Vanessa-Mae available. VMSPOS will bring you the news as soon as information comes to us. So, stay tuned at this site!

Vanessa-Mae on the internet
The website True Athens provides information about life and culture in Athens. They have brief information as announcement in 2009 dealing with Vanessa-Mae's upcoming concert that she was going to deliver in September 24 of 2009. In a hidden link, the website has the photo depicted below available, see photo Vanessa-Mae in Athens, 2009. The photo shows a close-up of Vanessa-Mae, wearing heavy make-up on her face, playing her acoustic violin in full concentration at her concert.

source: True Athens

2010 update # 10 of March 6

New gallery 11 with photos of Vanessa-Mae as VIP ambassador for Audi Cars.
VMSPOS has a new gallery 11 available with 25 photos of Vanessa-Mae as VIP ambassador for Audi cars. Vanessa-Mae is an avid fan of Audi and she possesses several models herself. Below are 3 photos from gallery 11 shown as example. For a complete overview of all photo galleries, do go to our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae.

2010 update # 9 of February 27

New Vanessa-Mae Chronicle available.
VMSPOS presents a new Vanessa-Mae Chronicle, issue 2 of 2010, with the title Vanessa-Mae: Loving Audi Cars! The first lines of the story are as follows below:

In 2004, Audi Magazine had a close-up photo of Vanessa-Mae with an Audi car as background as the cover for their December issue. The issue featured an extensive article of 6 pages dealing with Vanessa-Mae with a series of fine photos. The cover photo of of the magazine, depicted below.

To read the full story, do go to Vanessa-Mae Chronicle,

Recent findings  for Vanessa-Mae on the internet.
Photographer Paul Brooke shows several photos of Vanessa-Mae on his website. These photos are depicted below.

The photos show, apparently, that Paul Brooke was hired several times to make promotional and fashion photos of Vanessa-Mae. His photos were also used by magazines as illustration for articles dealing with Vanessa-Mae.

2010 update # 8 of February 20

There is currently no news available on Vanessa-Mae! Stay tuned on this space to read the latest as soon as information becomes available to us.

2010 update # 7 of February 13

The Chronology of Vanessa-Mae's career updated
We updated the Chronology of Vanessa-Mae's career with data over the years 2003 and 2004. The Chronology gives and overview and timeliness of Vanessa-Mae's life, musical training, and all her career achievements so far. The Chronology is now up-to-date till the year 2005. Data over the period 2009 till present will be added soon.

2010 update # 6 of February 6

New photo gallery 10 available
We started a new gallery 10 with a series of 13 unique photos of Vanessa-Mae. Normally in public, we see Vanessa-Mae as a women exuding glamour, well styled in beautiful clothes and being perfectly made up, as is appropriate for a world wide celebrity and superstar. This gallery presents photos of Vanessa-Mae where she was spotted in rather informal poses, wearing casual clothes and her face being devoid of any sign of the usual make-up she wears in public. A few nice examples are already shown below - do go to gallery 10 to see more photos of Vanessa-Mae without make-up and to read the stories behind the photos.

2010 update # 5 of January 30

Vanessa-Mae Chronicle
This update, we present the first Vanessa-Mae chronicle for 2010. In this fir4st issue, we discuss a few videos of Vanessa-Mae dating from before she became a world wide superstar. The first lines of the story are as follows:

Vanessa-Mae's professional career last some 15 years now already, and during this period her fans all over the world have seen her in various official documentaries an concert registrations that have been broadcasted, performances and appearances in television shows and talk shows, and in concert footages that were recorded illegally by fans and made available on You Tube. However, not too much video material from before she became a world wide superstar in 1994 is known, at least is not familiar to most of her fans. Ever since the rising popularity of You Tube, and as a consequence of that, the increase in the number of users, more rare material of Vanessa-Mae that was broadcasted before 1994 (mostly in the UK) was converted from the original video tape to digital media by its owners who subsequently uploaded the videos to You Tube.

To read the full story and see the videos, do go to Vanessa-Mae Chronicle.

2010 update # 4 of January 23

New photo gallery 9 with photos of Vanessa-Mae as a child
We started gallery 9 with photos of Vanessa-Mae as a child and at the early stages of her career before she became a world wide superstar with the release of The Violin Player album. A few are shown below.

2010 update # 3 of January 16

Vanessa-Mae played a concert in Athens, September 24, 2009
Vanessa-Mae played a concert in Athens, capitol of Greece, September 24 of 2009. Vanessa-Mae acted in a fantastic show in font of an enthusiastic and delighted audience in the historic atmosphere of the ancient Herodeon Theatre underneath the famous Acropolis in Athens. Till now, we were not able to find any information about this concert on the internet. It was only very recently that VMSPOS discovered the 23 photos below that were made during her concert in Athens, last autumn in 2009. The first 3 photos to the left on the top line given an impression of the historic and ancient character of the venue, and it must have been a great pleasure and very rewarding for Vanessa-Mae to perform in such a fantastic environment. The other photos show Vanessa-Mae at her performance wearing a fine black silk dress with only a single left shoulder strap, showing a crucifix pendent dangling at tiny necklace on her open chest, walking on high heeled black open shoes, and wearing heavy make-up with flawless complexion of a firm covering crème, discretely blushed cheeks, a dollop of dark purple shadow in a sharp line half way up to the perfectly styled brows, cherry red lipstick, and the shadows of her lashes with excess mascara visible by the incidence of the lights underneath her eyes. Vanessa-Mae looked fantastic that night in Athens!

sources: Photo shelter (IML image group)

New photo gallery 8 with official promotion photos of Vanessa-Mae
We started a new gallery 8 that holds official promotion photos of Vanessa-Mae. We picked out the 5 very nice ones that are showed below already. Descriptions of the photos and the occasions are provided in gallery 8.

2010 update # 2 of January 9

Vanessa-Mae on the internet:
We recently discovered the ladies in satin blog that serves the owner as a means to express his obsession for beautiful women wearing shining satin and silk clothes. Photos of celebrities dressed in silk and satin are used by this blog, and the 5 photos depicted on the top line below, are shown on a page devoted to Vanessa-Mae. VMSPOS had these photos, plus the 3 on the bottom line, available in the old style photo galleries till 2008. Obviously, the blog owner took the photos from VMSPOS as the links of the full sized photos still refer to the names under which we originally stored them (photofil1 to photofil8).

These 8 photos were made in the summer of 1997 or early spring 1998 in front of Kensington Palace in London. Vanessa-Mae looked extremely gorgeous in a Chinese style all silk outfit with red shining suit, jacket and pants over a bright yellow silk long sleeved blouse with frog buttons upfront. Both the blouse and suit are shining garments and prominently decorated with Chinese figures. In order to counterbalance the highly decorative nature of the silk clothes, Vanessa-Mae's face was very heavily made up with a flawless covering foundation crème to create an impeccable complexion, smouldering eye definition with brown shadow, lots of black liner and mascara, and with her full lips excessively painted in colour red matching her silk suit. All in all, Vanessa-Mae looked beautiful and delivered an exquisite and balanced presentation here. These photos have always belonged to our all time favourite photos of Vanessa-Mae, and we will make them available in a separate photo gallery soon.

2010 update # 1 of January 2

Chronology: An chronological overview of all Vanessa-Mae's career achievements is presented at Chronological facts of Vanessa-Mae and her career. The overview is up-to-date till 2004. Data of the years 2004-2009 will be added shortly.

Photo galleries: Our extensive collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae is possible the most popular and visited feature of the VMSPOS website (Vanessa-Mae: Saying Power On Strings). The pages containing the various galleries have been restyled. Till now, the collection is presented in 7 galleries. For an overview of the galleries see Collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae. The various galleries contain the following as described briefly below.

More galleries will be added, so stay tuned on this space to learn the latest about it!

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2009 update 59 of December 31

New video of a young Vanessa-Mae: In 1992, BBC television aired a short documentary about Vanessa-Mae who was 13 years old at that time. The title of topic was What's That Noise. The video is available at You Tube at Vivien 71 channel and is shown below in embedded player.

source: Vivien71 channel at You Tube

New collection acquisitions: We recently acquired the 10 photos shown below for our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae. A brief description follows below the photos.

Top row: The first two photos on the left were made during Vanessa-Mae's Original Four Seasons concert that she gave in Vienna on May 27 of 1999 at the Konzerthaus hall. The two photos were made after the break when Vanessa-Mae had changed into a tight black pants and black sleeveless undershirt. The next two photos were made in 2001 when Vanessa-Mae did a photo shot in Moscow during a visit there to promote her new album Subject To Change. Vanessa-Mae was dressed rather casually in jeans and a denim jacket, and she had spike heeled black boots. Her face was perfectly complexioned with crème, powder with a finishing touch of deep red lipstick, and she had eye definition with mascara and liner.  The final photo to the right was made at her concert in Hong Kong at the Convention Centre on September 18 of 2002. Here, Vanessa-Mae was dressed in flower print tight pants, a sleeveless purple top, and she had heavy make-up on, of which the deep red glossy lipstick was markedly present. This photo has been added to gallery 6 of our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae.

Bottom row: The first two photos on the left were made during a session for the October 3 of 2004 issue of the Sunday Express. The mid photo portrays Vanessa-Mae at a party to celebrate Chinese New Year held on February 19 of 2007. Vanessa-Mae is rather casual, but the decorative multi coloured Chinese style silk blouse over blue jeans and spike heeled boots looked fabulous on her. She did not look too much made up. The final tow photos to the right were made on April 6 of 2008 when Vanessa-Mae participated in the Olympic Relay through London with the Olympic flame. Here, she was in a white with bright red sporting outfit.

Vanessa-Mae news of 2009: A page with an overview of all news regarding Vanessa-Mae of 2009 is now issued at Vanessa-Mae news: the archives 2009. Here, all topics regarding Vanessa-Mae's activities and whereabouts are listed in chronological order. A page with forthcoming news for the year 2010 has already been created at Vanessa-Mae news archive 2010. Here all upcoming news about Vanessa-Mae in the year 2010 will be gathered. This news will be brought to you here at the VMSPOS homepage, but will be transported to the archive page afterwards. News of previous years (2005-2009) can be accessed via an overview page at Vanessa-Mae news archives overview.

VMSPOS site statistics: Now the year 2009 comes to an end, we can conclude that the number of visitors decreased significantly with respect to the years 2007 and 2008 - exact data are available in the colophon on top of this homepage and will be slightly below 60,000. So far till 2009, since the launch of VMSPOS, the number of visitors developed upward gradually. We see three reasons for this. First, the continued lack of a  new album of Vanessa-Mae subdues interests. According to Vanessa-Mae's management Merlin Music Company, the new album will be launched in 2010, though an exact date is not mentioned yet. Moreover, Vanessa-Mae's touring schedule has also been limited the past two or three years. We can expect a massive increase of the number of visitors to VMSPOS once the new album will be out, and once she will go on tour with her new music. A second reason might be the fact that our photo galleries are not up and running completely since our restyling and reorganisation. Our collection of photos forms the largest privately owned collection and we observed massive attention from visitors for them, as well as we recorded many hits in our site statistics from search engines for these photos. We aim to bring back our complete collection online gradually over the coming years. A third reason for the decrease in visitors lies in the fact we suffered outage of our site several days this years because of technical failures. Obviously, the most important reason for the decrease in the number of visitors lies in the lack of a new album and subsequent subduing of attention as a result.

Nevertheless, VMSPOS will continue to keep all fans of Vanessa-Mae informed to the best of our ability with news, forthcoming tour dates, reports and photos related to our dearest and beloved Vanessa-Mae in the coming year. Besides news, We will continue to bring visitors Vanessa-Mae chronicles, photos of the week, and interesting quotes on a regular basis. Moreover, we aim to complete our list of reviews with a few missing items like Vanessa-Mae's role as Princess Zobeide in Arabian Nights movie, and Vanessa-Mae's filmed Alternative Classical Concert that she gave in 1997 at the Birmingham Symphony Hall on January 25. Also, a few short documentaries with a young Vanessa-Mae (under 13!) broadcasted by the BBC will reviewed.

2009 update 58 of December 27

Vanessa-Mae news:

Vanessa-Mae will join the new year celebrations in the Moscow National Hotel.
Vanessa-Mae will participate in special new year celebrations organised in the National Hotel in Moscow, the Moscow News online reports!

"On New Year's Eve, we have always hosted special celebrations in the rooms overlooking the Kremlin," Amosova,  head of the press service of the National said. "This year, our guest will be the world-famous violinist Vanessa Mae."

The National Hotel presenting themselves on their website, states: We’re proud to announce that Moscow’s iconic Hotel National has joined The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts, a glittering ensemble of more than 70 of the world’s finest hotels and resorts; and a further statement says: most stimulating urban centres the world over. Set at the intersection of Mokhovaya and Tverskaya Streets, Hotel National faces the regal walls of the Kremlin and is in close proximity to St. Basil’s Cathedral, famed for its characteristic onion domes. The hotel’s 150 guest rooms and 56 suites are richly decorated with antique Russian objects d’art. Built in 1903 by Russian architect Alexander Ivanov, Hotel National offers stylish comfort and elegant luxury in the heart of Moscow.

sources: Moscow News online and The National Hotel

Vanessa-Mae joined Il Divo on stage in New York City (NY) at the Beacon Theatre.
Vanessa-Mae joined Il Divo on stage at 3 of their Christmas concerts in the USA at the Beacon Theatre (Dec 15, 16 and 17). The video shown in embedded player below was made during the show on December 16.

sources: Il Divo, RMfkb You Tube channel, Beacon Theatre and Encore magazine

2009 update # 57 of December 21

Vanessa-Mae News: Vanessa-Mae performed two concerts in Russia, St Petersburg (October Hall, Dec 11) and Moscow (Crocus City Hall, Dec 12) for her Violin Magic Period Tour.

Vanessa-Mae performed in a two sold out concerts in Russia for her Violin Magic Period Tour, the first one on December 11 at the October Hall in St Petersburg, the second one a day late on December 12 at The Crocus City Hall in Moscow. Both evenings, Vanessa-Mae performed dressed a bright red gala gown, her face heavily made up with a firm covering crème to create an impeccable complexion, black eye liner, mascara, little red brown shadow on her upper lids, and excessively applied glossy lipstick in the colour red matching the dress. Remarkable, Vanessa-Mae was on bare feet at her concert in Moscow, where in St Petersburg, she acted on spike heeled open shoes. Below are two videos in embedded players that were made during her concert in St Petersburg. In the videos, she performed Bolero for Violin and Orchestra and The Havana Slide. The videos are available via You Tube at the JuliaForPatricia channel. Below the 2 videos, a series of 11 photos form Vanessa-Mae's concert in Moscow are shown.

2009 update # 56 of December 13

Vanessa-Mae news:

December 11 & 12, 2009, Vanessa-Mae kicks off her Magic Violin Period tour with concerts in St Petersburg (Dec. 11) and Moscow (Dec. 12)
Vanessa-Mae performs two concerts in Russia on Friday December 11 in the October Hall of St Petersburg, and on Saturday December 12 in the Crocus City Hall of Moscow. These two shows form the kick off of Vanessa-Mae's new Magic Violin Period tour.

Comments of VMSPOS: We have no further information yet on these two concerts. Also, we did not find any photos or video footage yet. We will report as soon as more information becomes available to us.

December 7 & 8, 2009, Vanessa-Mae teamed up with  Il Divo as special guest on stage with the international vocal group  at their London concerts on December 7 and 8 at the Apollo Theatre.
Vanessa-Mae joined Il Divo on stage during their Xmas concerts in the London Apollo Theatre last December 7 and 8. A short video of Vanessa-Mae accompanying Il Divo is available a You Tube at christine83000 channel. The video is shown below in embedded player.

source: christine83000 channel at You Tube.

2009 update # 55 of December 6

Vanessa-Mae news:

Vanessa-Mae will start her new 'The Violin Magic Period' Tour in Russia with concert in St Petersburg (Dec. 11) and Moscow (Dec. 12).
Vanessa-Mae will start a new tour of concerts with two shows in Russia on December 11 (St Petersburg, October Hall) and 12 (Moscow, Crocus City Hall). Information about ticket sales can be found via the links provided below as the sources of the news.

sources: Kassir.ru, St Petersburg Times and Liden & Denz.

Comments by VMSPOS: At this moment we have no clue whether Vanessa-Mae will bring new music on this new tour of concerts. The name of the tour suggests that it will probable provide an overview of Vanessa-Mae's music so far. We will report on this as soon as more information becomes available to us, and as soon as more concert dates become known.

December 4, 2009, Vanessa-Mae participated in the launch ceremonial opening for the new Mandarin facility in Las Vegas, and she performed at the gala evening as well.
Vanessa-Mae acted in the ceremonial opening of the new facility of the Mandarin Hotel Group in two ways, by a joined cutting a ribbon with dignitaries and other celebrities present, and with a splendid and spectacular performance at the gala evening.

The 6 photos below were made at the ceremonial cutting of a ribbon by dignitaries and celebrities. Here, Vanessa-Mae was styled in a wonderful creased blue shining satin dress, she had a crucifix pendent that nicely dangled at a tiny necklace in the V-neck opening of her dress, and her face looked quite natural, moderately made up with minor eye definition and light purple lipstick as marks in a smoothly complexioned visage - see the photos below.

At her performance at the gala evening, Vanessa-Mae provided the audience an unforgettable show with great music, spectacular lighting of backgrounds, and a beautiful physical presentation in a bright red gala dress, open shoes with exceptional high heels, and, of course, an overwhelming make-up consisting of firmly applied covering crème, eye definition with black liner and mascara, lush lipstick and a fine blush high on her cheek bones both in the same red as the dress. The 22 wonderful photos below underline Vanessa-Mae's enchanting appearance that evening.

Vanessa-Mae is an official Fan of The Mandarin Hotel Group, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group's international advertising campaign simply and elegantly connects the Group's well recognized symbol - the fan - with international celebrities who regularly stay at the hotels and consider themselves to be fans of the Group. Each fan has chosen a charity to which Mandarin Oriental is delighted to have made a donation of USD 10,000. Vanessa-Mae's charity of choice is the RSPCA - The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

source: Mandarin Hotel press release at The Mandarin Hotel Group,  and Getty Imagers.

2009 update 54 of December 4

Vanessa-Mae upcoming events: Vanessa-Mae will join Il Divo as special guest on stage with the international vocal group  at their London concerts on December 7 and 8 at the Apollo Theatre.
As reported previously - see New at VMSPOS of October 14, Vanessa-Mae will appear on stage a guest at the London concerts that will take place on December 7 and 8 at the Apollo Theatre.

source: Il Divo news and Times Of The Internet.

New Vanessa-Mae videos on The Vanessa-Mae Channel at You Tube.
The Vanessa-Mae Channel has three interesting new videos available of Vanessa-Mae's appearances on television dating from 1997 and 1999. The videos are shown below in embedded players.

Video 1 shows Vanessa-Mae on April 17 of 1997 when she performed Toccata & Fugue at the Music World Awards held in Monaco. Vanessa-Mae received the award for best selling classical artist of the year. Vanessa-Mae was dressed in a evening blue mini dress with silver trimmings, and her face was heavily made up, especially the smouldering eye make-up was striking. Notice how articulate and eloquent Vanessa-Mae was in addressing Prince Albert and Princess Stephanie  the audience during her accepting speech.

Video 2 dates from November 1997 during Vanessa-Mae's visit to  the USA to promote her new albums Storm and China Girl. This video shows Vanessa-Mae at her performance of 'I Am A Doun' at The View. After she played, Vanessa-Mae had a brief chat with the show host. Vanessa-Mae appeared dressed in a short bright red cheongsam in Chinese style with frog buttons up front. Like always during the whole Storm and China Girl period, Vanessa-Mae looked quite made up here, especially considering the fact that she was only 18-19 years old then.

Video 3 dates from April 1999 when Vanessa-Mae appeared in the Donny and Marie Osmond television show. She was in the USA to promote her album The Original; Four Seasons, and in the show she played The Devil's Trill. The quality of the video is not too good, but as can be judged from her expression, Vanessa-Mae was very heavily made up for this television appearance.

source: The Vanessa-Mae Channel at You Tube.

2009 update 53 of November 28

Vanessa-Mae news: Vanessa-Mae attended the launch party of a new facility in Barcelona of the Mandarin Hotel Group on Wednesday, November 26.
Vanessa-Mae was present at the launch party of a new facility in Barcelona of the Mandarin Hotel Group, last Wednesday November 26. The 6 photos below show Vanessa-Mae on open brown high heeled shoes, wearing a fine elegant strapless black dress, and her lips beautifully painted in bright red as a striking mark in her visage that was only soberly made up for this occasion.

Vanessa-Mae is an official Fan of The Mandarin Hotel Group, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group's international advertising campaign simply and elegantly connects the Group's well recognized symbol - the fan - with international celebrities who regularly stay at the hotels and consider themselves to be fans of the Group. Each fan has chosen a charity to which Mandarin Oriental is delighted to have made a donation of USD 10,000. Vanessa-Mae's charity of choice is the RSPCA - The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

sources: press release of The Mandarin Hotel Group; Getty Images and Wire Image

2009 update 52 of November 21

New Vanessa-Mae on the internet discovery
We recently found out that the Visible Chinese has a profile Vanessa-Mae available at Vanessa-Mae at visible Chinese. On their homepage, Visible Chinese presents itself as a guide to achievers in the UK's Chinese culture. Of course, Vanessa-Mae is a prominent figure in the Asian and Chinese  circles in the UK as a result her career achievements and being a high profile celebrity.

2009 update 51 of November 15

New Vanessa-Mae collection acquisitions: Official press release from June 1997 announcing Vanessa-Mae's appearance at the Hong Kong to China reunification.
We recently acquired a copy of the official press release for our collection of Vanessa-Mae items in which her appearance at the handover of Hong Kong to China ceremony on July 7 of 1997 was announced - see the clickable image below! The press release announced that Vanessa-Mae would play her Re-unification Overture 'Happy Valley' accompanied by 75 piece Western orchestra, her own band, 250 Chinese drummers, an 80 strong Chinese ladies choir, 50 Wu-shu flag bearers, and 30 traditional dancers.

New video of Vanessa-Mae at You Tube
We found the following video at You Tube of Vanessa-Mae performing in Madrid, probable in 1995 or 1996. In the second part, she went outdoors playing in front of people passing by. Finally, Vanessa-Mae steps onto a care standing in front of red traffic lights, like she did at her famous open air concert in New York on Time Square, July 12 of 1995, where she jumped onto a yellow cab. Do mark Vanessa-Mae's expressive eye definition in the close-ups as indication that she was heavily made up at her concert in Madrid.

Vanessa-Mae chronicle
The new Vanessa-Mae chronicle deals with Vanessa-Mae's performance at the handover ceremony of Hong Kong to China. The first lines of the story are given below:

In the summer of 1997, Vanessa-Mae received the distinguished honour to appear as only foreign artist in the ceremony of the handover of Hong Kong to China. Being a British citizen and being half Chinese by race, Vanessa-Mae formed the perfect icon, by decent and musical artistic identity, to symbolize the relations between the two countries and its two people, to give their historical and future relationships an identity and multi-cultural character. Vanessa-Mae performed a piece that she especially commissioned for this memorable event of great historical significance. She started to play shortly before midnight to be the last British artist under old reign, and she finished her performance after midnight and by doing so, she became the first artist to play under the new regime.
 

Continue to read the complete story at Vanessa-Mae chronicle.

2009 update 50 of November 7

November 5, 2009: Vanessa-Mae sends her reaction to the presents that members of the Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum (VMF) had send to her on the occasion of her 31st birthday.
A few highlights from Vanessa-Mae's answers to the list of submitted questions are given below. Do visit the appropriate topic at Vanessa-Ma' reaction in the VMF to read all the details.

Highlights from Vanessa-Mae's answers
- Vanessa-Mae feels more happy today than ever before. She had a few injuries this year and hope to stay without these in 2010.
- There is not release date for the new album yet!
- She has never been to Iceland but feels that the landscape there must be very inspiring.
- Her wishes for future collaborations would be to participate in another jam session with Prince.
- Gaspard is doing very well and got a play pal Maximus, a Chihuahua, last Christmas, much to his delight.
- Vanessa-Mae received some cool stuff from Lionel for her new house.
- Finally, Vanessa-Mae wishes all her fans to enjoy the approaching winter.

Vanessa-Mae on the internet discoveries: We recently found the following about Vanessa-Mae on the internet.
On July 31 of 2008, Vanessa-Mae visited the horse races at Glorious Goodwood. For this occasion, Vanessa-Mae used a hair fascinator as accessories in her presentation that was designed by Emily Baxendale of Emily London designs. The Emily London website contains photos of customers wearing accessories designed by Emily Baxendale. The photo below of Vanessa-Mae is part of this page.

source: I spy at Emily London

2009 update 50 of October 31

New Vanessa-Mae collection acquisitions:
VMSPOS recently acquired the 12 photos of Vanessa-Mae shown below for our photo collection. A brief description of the photos and details of the date and occasion are given below.

photo 1	photo 2	photo 3	photo 4
photo 5	photo 6	photo 7	photo 8
photo 9	photo 10	photo 11	photo 12

Photo 1: Vanessa-Mae posing for photographers at the press conference early February of 1998, the day of Chinese New Year, that she gave to promote the release of her new album China Girl. Being dressed in a fine Chinese style red dress and her face being markedly made up, Vanessa-Mae successfully portrayed a luxurious Chinese girl from higher social circles.

Photo 2: Vanessa-Mae posing with her mother in a cute and caring embracement. This disarming portrait of mother and daughter was made on May 27 of 1999 after Vanessa-Mae's Original Four Seasons concert in Vienna. After the demanding concert, Vanessa-Mae is casual in an army green sleeveless undershirt and green cotton trousers. Her face looks natural with only very limited make-up.

Photos 2 & 4: These two photos are very nice close up portraits of Vanessa-Mae that were made in 2001 during her visit to3 Moscow in 2001 to promote her album Subject To Change. Vanessa-Mae wears a denim blue jacket and her face is absolutely perfect and gorgeous with an immaculate complexion of covering make-up crème.

Photo 5: Vanessa-Mae portrayed in October of 2003 when she was photographed for the Sunday Express. The Sunday Express would issue an article  about Vanessa-Mae in series of articles dealing with the cd collections of celebrities.

Photo 6: Vanessa-Mae photographed when she arrived for the Classical Brit wards ceremonial evening held in 2004 in the Royal Albert Hall on May 26. Vanessa-Mae attracted a lot of attention with her glamorous appearance, and she left her fans in awe. This evening, she used a golden dress that was especially designed for her. Vanessa-Mae's face was heavily made up to exude optimum glamorous looks - do notice her full skin coverage with crème and powder, the excess of black mascara, her perfectly shaped eye brow, and the luxuriant glossy red lipstick. At the ceremonial award evening, Vanessa-Mae would play music from her newly released album Choreography for the first time.

Photos 7 & 8: Vanessa-Mae portrayed in an hotel at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport when she passed there on a travel to Asia to promote her new album. At the airport, she did a television interview and a photo shoot. She was dressed in a purple silk dress with open back. Do notice her fine complexion and excessive glossy red lipstick.

Photo 9: Vanessa-Mae arriving at a party in The Mandarin Hotel in London  to celebrate Chinese New Year on February 19 of 2007. She was dressed in blue jeans and a fine silk flowery blue blouse in Chinese style with high collar and frog buttons. Her face looked natural with very limited make-up, with only some visible red lipstick.

Photo 10: Vanessa-Mae photographed from a distance, being hugged from behind by her life companion Lionel Catalan at he Cartier international polo day in Windsor on July 29 of 2007. Vanessa-Mae was conservatively in a flowery silk blue dress; here on the photo she hides her face that was perfectly made up - see the excessive red lipstick that was used - behind large dark sunglasses.

Photo 11 & 12: Vanessa-Mae photographed on April 27 of 2009 when she attended the opening of the Michael Kors flagship fashion store. She was dressed in jeans with a short green jacket.

Vanessa-Mae news: October 27, Vanessa-Mae celebrates her 31st birthday today.
Today, October 27, Vanessa-Mae becomes 31 years of age. VMSPOS congratulates Vanessa-Mae with her birthday, and expresses hopes that she will enjoy her day together with Lionel, Gaspard, family members, and friends. See our special birthday greeting page at Vanessa-Mae's 31st bday and read an about Vanessa-Mae as a short biography page in relation to her birthday. A full biography of Vanessa-Mae  and a discography of Vanessa-Mae can be read via the link.

2009 update # 48 of October 24

Vanessa-Mae news: Vanessa-Mae will celebrate her 31st birthday coming Tuesday, October 27.
Vanessa-Mae will become 31 years of age coming Tuesday, October 27. Coincidently, she shares her birthday with the famous violinist Niccolo Paganini (b, October 27, 1782), who was born 196 year before her. Members of The Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum sent her their traditional birthday presents and a list with questions. So far, Vanessa-Mae has always provided her fans with her feedback on the questions that they had.

2009 update # 47 of October 14

Vanessa-Mae News: Vanessa-Mae will appear as special guest on stage with the international vocal group Il Divo at their London concerts on December 7 and 8 at the Apollo Theatre.
Vanessa-Mae will appear on stage a guest at the London concerts that will take place on December 7 and 8 at the Apollo Theatre. Il Divo announced the special series of concerts that will see a Christmas inspired program on their website:

As an extra special festive treat, this year Carlos, David, Seb and Urs will be wishing you all a very Merry Christmas with a host of gigs in London, America and Canada.

We are very pleased to bring you the exclusive news that Il Divo will be celebrating the holiday season with a series of intimate shows this December!

December 7th & 8th London Hammersmith Apollo
with Special Guests: Vanessa-Mae & Camilla Kerslake

continue reading at Il Divo announces Christmas shows (includes announcement of other guest appearances at other concerts in this series).

Ticket sales for the general audience will start on Friday, October 16, 2009. Special VIP packages are available through Il Divo special VIP packages.

source: Il Divo news and Times Of The Internet.

2009 update # 46 of October 10

Vanessa-Mae's Tour Brochures:
Vanessa-Mae tours the world since 1995 extensively. Although, she has scaled down the number of concert performances since 2001 considerable, the various world tours had very demanding schedules, bringing Vanessa-Mae to all continents over and over again - see Tour dates of Vanessa-Mae. For the various tours, Vanessa-Mae issued 6 different tour brochures that were available for sale at the concerts - only for her current Choreography tour, no brochure was prepared. Scans of all 6 brochures are now available at Tour brochures on the VMSPOS website. The covers are shown below - click thumbnails to open larger scale images.

2009 update # 45 of October 4

New documentary found on YouTube showing Vanessa-Mae in Finland in 1997
VMSPOS recently found a 30 minutes documentary on YouTube at the Mediakenraali channel. The documentary was made and broadcasted in 1997 when Vanessa-Mae visited Finland to promote her new album Storm. Our new Vanessa-Mae Chronicle provides a review with screen captures of this documentary. The first lines of the story are as follows:

Vanessa-Mae is very popular in the Baltic states and she visited this region of Europe frequently during her career - see the Tour dates of Vanessa-Mae. Despite this popularity there, her last visit to Finland dates from 1998 when she played at the indoor carting championships in the Hartwall Arena of Helsinki. Her last concert in Finland was also in the Hartwall Arena on May 2 of 1998 for the Strom On World Tour.

Vanessa-Mae visited Finland during November 1997 to promote her new album Storm. The media in Finland paid quite some attention to Vanessa-Mae's visit and the national television channel broadcasted a special 30 minutes interview documentary devoted to her! We recently discovered that Mediakenraali made the documentary available in 3 parts on YouTube. VMSPOS downloaded all 3 part, merged them to one video that can make available for downloading on request by email. In this chronicle, we will highlight a few aspects contents of the documentary and use screen captures for illustration.

Below, we already show 8 screen captures from the documentary.

To read our complete story and so all the captures, do visit Vanessa-Mae chronicle

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2009 update # 44 of September 29

Short videos available of Vanessa-Mae's concert in Athens
YouTube has 4 short videos available of Vanessa-Mae's concert in Athens that she gave last Thursday September 24 at the Herod Atticus Theatre under the Acropolis.

sources: DRAKFIREMAN at YouTube and Papadopoulos net at YouTube

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2009 update # 43 of September 27

September 24, 2009, Vanessa-Mae delivered a sold-out concert in Athens, Greece, at the Herod Atticus Theatre under the Acropolis.
Vanessa-Mae performed in Athens, capital of Greece, Herod Atticus Theatre under the Acropolis on Thursday, September 24.

Comments by VMSPOS: We have not seen a report on Vanessa-Mae's concert yet, and, unfortunately, we have not been able to spot photos of the evens as well. Please contact  us if you have been at the concert, or in case you have any other information on the show.

source: True Athens and music heaven

Recent collection acquisitions
We recently acquired the 8 photos shown below for our collection of Vanessa-Mae material. A brief description of the photos follows below the photos.

Photo 1 on the top row to the left is a portrait made in 1995 or early 1996 of Vanessa-Mae with her acoustic violin in an affectionate pose to her breast. We have no clue about the exact date when, and location where this photo was made. Vanessa-Mae wears a fine shining satin silver green dress, and her face is heavily make-up - see the immaculate smooth complexion, the eye brows perfectly shaped with a black pencil, smouldering dark eye make-up, and her lips markedly painted red. In these early years of her career, Vanessa-Mae obviously opted for exuding the  subtlety of glamour looks with a lot of make-up that the status of being a world-wide celebrity requires to wear, instead of preserving her natural beauty of being a young innocent girl, a practice that she would continue in a very personal and fashionable manner throughout her career till today.

Photos 2-3 on the top row from the left were made when Vanessa-Mae was in transit through Schiphol Airport on a trip in November 2004 to the Far-East to promote her new album Choreography. At Schiphol Airport, Vanessa-Mae was interviewed by RTL 4 television, and she subsequently acted in a photo shoot. Vanessa-Mae had a wonderful silk blue dress with a deep cut n open back part. On these 2 photos, Vanessa-Mae has a mischievous look over her shoulder towards the photographer. Vanessa-Mae's face looks heavily made up - do mark, her exceptionally smooth complexion, the luxuriant sweet cherry red lipstick, and definition of her eyes with a sharp thin black line underneath, excessive black mascara, and minor dark shadow.

Photo 4 to the right on the top row portrays Vanessa-Mae on July 29 of 2007 when she visited the Cartier Polo day in Windsor. Vanessa-Mae looks stunning in a high closed fine silk dress with flower design in shades of blue to purple, and with her face perfectly made up.

Photos 5-8 on the second were made somewhere end 1999. We have seen one of these already years ago in a magazine and we have been looking forward to an opportunity to acquire photos from this session ever since then. These photos show a fantastic looking Vanessa-Mae sitting comfortable in a wooden chair, looking self-assured to the camera. Vanessa-Mae wears a nice casual cotton long dress with a design of horizontal black and white stripes, a garment she still uses occasionally today - see as an example BBC documentary of 2008 The Making Of Me. In that time, end 1999, Vanessa-Mae had short hair that already started to grow again. Here, she has a few dark blue painted hair locks for decoration. The close-up to the left reveals details of how Vanessa-Mae was made up for this photo session: Vanessa-Mae's face is obviously finished with powder to create a mat toned complexion, yet with glossy lipstick in almost the same colour as the foundation. The blue silver shadow that extends in thin perfect line underneath her eyes provide a funny and  roguish look to her face. This is really a great series of photos, and we are very happy to have these in our collection.

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2009 update # 42 of September 18

Photos of Vanessa-Mae  in Westonbirt have been added to gallery 1 of collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae.
We have added the photos that we made of Vanessa-Mae at her recent concert in the Westonbirt Arboretum on July 18 of 2009 to gallery 1 of collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae. These photos are also available at our review on Vanessa-Mae live at the Westonbirt Arboretum. Photos that we made at previous concerts of Vanessa-Mae can also be found in gallery 1. See My concerts of Vanessa-Mae, for links to reviews of all the concert of Vanessa-Mae that we attended so far,.

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2009 update # 41 of September 12

Vanessa-Mae upcoming 31st birthday: The Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum (VMF) is organising a present for Vanessa-Mae again this year!
The Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum (VMF) will organise a present for Vanessa-Mae again this year on the occasion of her birthday, coming October 27 when she turn 31 years of age. - yes, she will be over 30 definitely then, still looking youthful and beautiful as ever! Details about this years project, and how to participate, are given in the topic Vanessa-Mae's upcoming 31st bday: what will we do for her? Participation is open for all fans who are interested. Part of the present will be the traditional letter and list of questions to Vanessa-Mae. So far, Vanessa-Mae has always responded by answering the questions, kindly revealing inside information on several occasions for which all contributors credit her with feelings of love, affection and sincere thankfulness.

New collection acquisitions: VMSPOS recently acquired 10 new photos of Vanessa-Mae that were made during 2004-2005 period.
We recently acquired 10 new photos of Vanessa-Mae that were made during 2004 and 2005, showing Vanessa-Mae attending several celebrity events. The photos are shown below, and a brief description follows below.

Photos 1-3 on the left top row: Vanessa-Mae attended, accompanied by her friend Lionel, the re-launch party for the Asprey Fashion store, located on Bond Street London, held on May 18 of 2004. Vanessa-Mae showed up in a daring, and wonderful outfit of a very short cotton dress made out of a shine-through netting garment with shining circular shining devices attached all over the surface. Vanessa-Mae's appearance was unique and eye-catching to all other attendees, and reporters present. On the second photo, she posed with Lionel; the third photos shows her talking with an unknown guest, radiating her unprecedented beauty as always with her long shining black hair and her face flawless and perfectly made up.

Photos 4 and 5 top row to the right: Vanessa-Mae arriving at the premiere of the Jules Verne movie 'Around the world in 70 days,' that took place in London on June 22 of 2004. Vanessa-Mae wears a bright blue short fur-like jacket over a cotton sweater. Do notice the excessive use of red lipstick that make Vanessa-Mae's mouth look more wide; it looks great in her perfectly smooth complexion.

Photos 1 and 2 to the left of the bottom line: Vanessa-Mae portrayed on October 24 of 2005 when she attended a party organised by Audi Cars for the launch of their new model. Vanessa-Mae looked very casual in jeans, a red T-shirt with V-neck and a a short white shabby jacket. Mark again, Vanessa-Mae's excessively applied red lipstick and the large earrings coming nicely from underneath her long black hair that she had in free style.

Photos 3 and 4 on the bottom row: Vanessa-Mae again when she attended a party organised by Audi Cars to promote a new model, held on May 9 of 2006. Here, Vanessa-Mae used a fantastic very short suede jacket, closed with a red Chinese character painted onto white enamelled buttons. Vanessa-Mae's face is only lightly covered with crème and she had bright red lipstick.

Photo 5 to the right on the bottom row: Vanessa-Mae photographed when she arrived at en evening to raise funds for Elephant Dunbar on June 27 of 2006. Vanessa-Mae looked great in a beautiful red silk long dress and she had her face perfectly made up.

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2009 update # 40 of September 5

Photos of Vanessa-Mae at her Westonbirt concert, July 18 of 2009
We processed the photos that we made during Vanessa-Mae's concert at the Westonbirt Arboretum of last July 18. We optimised parameters like white balance and exposure with photo editing software (Silkypix and Capture NX2). This processing resulted in more clear photos and omission of the yellowish glow that the original photos exhibited, showing the real silver crème colour of Vanessa-Mae's wonderful dress more clearly - originally, it looked yellowish. A few photos are shown below as example. More can be found at our review on Vanessa-Mae live at the Westonbirt Arboretum.

The photos will be available in gallery 1 of our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae on short notice, as well.

2009 update # 39 of August 29

Vanessa-Mae chronicle
A new Vanessa-Mae Chronicle is available (click the link). In relation to Vanessa-Mae's upcoming concert in Athens, the present story deals with Vanessa-Mae's previous visits to Greece. Do read the answers to the questions 'when did  Vanessa-Mae visited Greece for the first time,' and 'how often Vanessa-Mae did actually visit Greece,' by visiting our Vanessa-Mae Chronicle. The first lines of the story are as follows:

Upcoming September 24, Vanessa-Mae will perform in a concert in Athens, capital city of Greece, at the Herodeon theatre. This story explores how often Vanessa-Mae visited Greece so far in her career, and it describes those visits, using photos that we have found on the internet - all thumbnails are clickable to view larger images.

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2009 update # 38 of August 15

VMSPOS shows 11 new photos and 3 new videos that are available at the YouTube Vanessa-Mae channel
The 11 photos depicted below were recently acquired for our collection of Vanessa-Mae material. A brief description follows below each line of photos. These 11 photos are not part of any gallery on Collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae yet.

The photo on the left shows Vanessa-Mae arriving at the FHM gala evening on May 15 of 2001, where she attended as person listed as one of the 100 most sexiest women in the UK. For this occasion, Vanessa-Mae was dressed in blue jeans and a wonderful shining golden satin top, her face was made up to a smooth complexion with some red lipstick and minor black definition for her eyes. The second photo from the left was made on September 12 of 2002 at a launch party for the Gerrard Jewellers store that was organised by Jade Jagger. Here, Vanessa-Mae had a fine elegant black dress, and she used excessive red lipstick as striking mark in her rather pale complexion. The two photos on the right portray Vanessa-Mae with her friend Lionel Catalan during the preview for VIP's of the Summer exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts on May 28 of 2003. Lionel had a fine tie with colours in various shades of pink to purple that matched the beautiful pink dress of Vanessa-Mae nicely. Again, Vanessa-Mae's well used lipstick was striking feature in her face wear.
The photo on the left shows Vanessa-Mae posing when she arrived at the premiere of the Jules Verne movie in London on June 22 of 2004. Here, she used a fantastic bright blue short fur-like jacket and she lifted her face a bit so that her strong white teeth formed a full contrast against her bright red lipstick. The second photo was made on July 23 of 2006 when Vanessa-Mae and Lionel visited the Cartier Polo day in Windsor. Both Vanessa-Mae and Lionel looked quite casual. A year later, on July 29 of 2007, Vanessa-Mae attended the Cartier Polo days again, this time in a more formal outfit of a fantastic flowery silk dress designed by David Tang, owner of the fashion stores of Shanghai Tang. Vanessa-Mae looked fantastic in this silk dress, and her face was just made up enough to cope with the glamour her silk dress exuded - see the two photos on the right.
During the same summer of the year 2007 on June 6, Vanessa-Mae attended the preview for VIP's of the summer exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, also dressed in a creation by David Tang, again a very  fine silk dress. At this occasion, Vanessa-Mae looked quite made up with her lipstick in matching red to the front part of her silk dress. The second photo on this row shows Vanessa-Mae when she arrived at the preview for VIP's of the summer exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts on June 4 of 2008. She was casually dressed in jeans and a simple silk floating grey top, yet she was heavily made up. Finally, the photo on the right shows Vanessa-Mae at the Cartier international Polo day in Windsor on July 27 of 2008. She was casually dressed in a fine white skirts and an off-white long sleeved shirt.

The Vanessa-Mae video channel has 3 new videos of Vanessa-Mae available. These 3 videos are shown below in embedded players. The first video shows Vanessa-Mae's performance at the inaugural Classical Brit Awards in May of 2000. Vanessa-Mae delivered an energetic performance of her block buster hit Storm, accompanied by 2 other violinist, of which one is Vasko Vassilev (the other remains unknown to us, unfortunately). The intro stems from Tartini's Devils Trill Sonata. Vanessa-Mae looked nice in a floating green backless top - do notice at the end of the video the expression on her face when she suddenly realised, when she bowed to the audience, that her top hangs freely over her upper body!

The second and third video stem from Vanessa-Mae appearance at a television show in Seoul, South Korea somewhere in 1998. Vanessa-Mae looked gorgeous then, her face being very heavily made up, when she delivered a touchy and cute performance of I Am A Doun, followed by an energetic version of I Feel Love.

2009 update # 37 of July 31

Vanessa-Mae news: Vanessa-Mae announces a new concert date, scheduled for September 24 of 2009 in Athens at the Herodeon.
Vanessa-Mae will give a concert in Athens, Greece, at the Herodeon on September 24 of 2009, trikaland reports on July 21. More details will follow as soon as they come to us.

The event is sponsored by the Hellenic Bank and The Athenaeum Intercontinental Hotel.

Ticket can be ordered via Greek Festival. Sale has, however, not started yet!

sources: trikaland and Greek Festival

Comment by VMSPOS: We reported on this new concert date before, but feel the this news a bit overshadowed by the news about and our report of Vanessa-Mae's concert in Westonbirt, last July 18. Therefore, the announcement of the new concert date is displayed again.

2009 update # 36 of July 28

Our review of Vanessa-Mae concert at the Westonbirt Arboretum of Saturday July 18 of 2009 is now available at Review on Vanessa-Mae live at the Westonbirt Arboretum. The review includes over 100 photos. The following comes form the review:

Vanessa-Mae did her part of the concert in 2 sets - see the program above. Her show was more or less an normal Choreography tour concert, see our reviews of her concerts in London (October 2004), Dresden (February 2005), and Hamburg (July 2007). The consequence is that Vanessa-Mae left a few pieces out that she normally includes in concerts, like Bach Street Prelude, Destiny, Red Hot, Picante and Pasha. All in all, this means that it was 2 years ago that I did see her live in concert for the last time. I felt the excitement intensely for this new opportunity in this unique open air setting with additional music by the National Symphony Orchestra and the All Angles. Looking around and having talked to several people, I was convinced that everyone was really looking forward to her appearance. I had my camera at hand and waited when she would arrive on stage.

At about 8:30 pm, The All Angels announced that their part before the break was finished and that Vanessa-Mae would now start with her main concert of the evening. Vanessa-Mae's band appeared on stage and did some short tuning of their instruments. Then, Vanessa-Mae appeared on stage and the show began. The concert was very good. Vanessa-Mae played energetically and with passion, as did her band and the accompanying orchestra. However, the cold and humid weather conditions severely hampered keeping the instruments tuned. Especially Vanessa-Mae's leading role as solo violinist was greatly influenced, as she was constantly struggling, and due to her great experience and technique, she managed well. However Vanessa-Mae got out of tune several times, on her acoustic Guadagnini, but certainly on the white Zeta violin during the short electric leg immediately after the break. The audience did not blame Vanessa-Mae, as all recognised that she was working hard and was playing passionately to the best she could under these conditions.

To read to full story, do go to  Review on Vanessa-Mae live at the Westonbirt Arboretum. The review includes over 100 photos. The following comes form the review:

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2009 update # 35 of July 27

Vanessa-Mae news: Vanessa-Mae gave a sold out concert at the Westonbirt Arboretum last week, Saturday 18
 

Vanessa-Mae performed a sold out concert at the Westonbirt Arboretum, last Saturday July 18. Vanessa-Mae was accompanied by her band and the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Anthony Inglis. The All Angels acted as support act. The concert came to an end with Vanessa-Mae playing her blockbuster hit Storm, accompanied with a spectacular fireworks being let off. 

At first, cold weather with rain threatened to spoil the fun for the audience and the acting musicians. However, once the concert had begun, rain ceased and, fortunately, the evening remained practically dry from there.

VMSPOS was there at the concert, and our full story review will be ready to launch at this space somewhere later today. We promise a large series of fantastic photos of Vanessa-Mae, the best we have ever made!

A few first series of 4 photos that we made is already shown above, as well as 2 of the spectacular fireworks that accompanied Vanessa-Mae during the final piece Storm. Many more fantastic shots will follow with the full review later today.

So, stay tuned at this space for more coming soon!!!

July 21, 2009: Upcoming concert announced: Vanessa-Mae will give a concert in the Herodeon, located underneath the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, on September 24 of 2009
Vanessa-Mae will give a concert in Athens, Greece, at the Herodeon on September 24 of 2009. more details will follow as soon as they come to us.

The event is sponsored by the Hellenic Bank and The Athenaeum Intercontinental Hotel.

Ticket can be ordered via Greek Festival. Sale has, however, not started yet!

source: trikaland and Greek Festival

May 9, 2009, Vanessa-Mae honoured with a Big Ben award for outstanding young people in the UK of Chinese descent.
Vanessa-Mae was one of the 10 young people in the UK of Chinese descent to be honoured with the Big Ben award for outstanding young Chinese living in the UK this year. Unfortunately, Vanessa-Mae was not attending the ceremony.

The Big Ben Awards are presented annually by the British Chinese Youth Federation (BCYF), an England-registered charity, to recognize the achievements of Chinese young people in their professional fields and their contributions to the community. The ten winners are seen as role models to inspire young people of Chinese descent in the UK to excel in business and public service. Big Ben Award is formed by three parts, which include the BCYF-BBA Personal Award, BCYF-BBA Enterprise Award, and the award for UK Ten Outstanding Chinese Young Persons.

sources: radio86, china.org and Jenny Hao blogspot

2009 update # 34 of July 4

Vanessa-Mae news: Vanessa-Mae's upcoming concert at the Westonbirt Arboretum on July 18 is rapidly approaching. There are still tickets available.
Vanessa-Mae's concert on July 18 at the Westonbirt Arboretum is now rapidly approaching. Vanessa-Mae will be joined on stage by her band, The All Angels and National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Anthony Inglis.

About The All Angels - quoted from their official website:
Four very different teenage girls. One shared passion for music. MELANIE NAKHLA, 18 (Date of Birth 29.12.88); CHARLOTTE RITCHIE, 18 (Date of Birth 29.08.89); LAURA WRIGHT, 17 (Date of Birth 17.06.90); DAISY CHUTE, 18 (Date of birth 17.08.89)

In the autumn of 2006, the four teenage members of All Angels were a phenomenon-in-waiting, about to deliver their debut album to an unsuspecting world. A year later, they can justly claim to be the World's First Female Classical Supergroup. They performed at the Classical Brits, where their debut album was nominated for Album Of The Year, and were watched by 10 million viewers when they sang in front of the Queen at the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall. They've shared stages with Russell Watson and Katherine Jenkins, and have unleashed their collective lung-power in support of the England rugby team at several crucial international matches. Their first album was the UK's fastest-selling debut for a classical act, and won them a platinum disc. Now they're eager to find out if their follow-up can do even better.

sources: Vanessa-Mae.com,  Vanessa-Mae at Merlin Music Company, This is Wiltshire, Ticketmaster, and The All Angels

VMSPOS website will attend Vanessa-Mae's concert on July 18 at the Westonbirt Arboretum
VMSPOS website will attend Vanessa-Mae's concert on July 18 at the Westonbirt Arboretum. We will try to make some nice photos of Vanessa-Mae, her band, the orchestra and The All Angels. Of course, our extensive report with the photos will be issued here as soon as possible.

Call by VMSPOS: We will be more then pleased to hear the stories of other fans attending Vanessa-Mae's concert. Moreover, we will be more than happy if anyone is willing to submit a story and, or, photos of the concert. Please contact us at My story to submit your experiences and, or, photos.

2009 update # 33 of June 27

Vanessa-Mae news: Vanessa-Mae submitted her drawing to the Action For children to raise awareness for vulnerable children in our society.
Vanessa-Mae is among a large host of stars who illustrated their personal journeys to raise awareness of the difficult and complex journeys that thousands of the most vulnerable children and young people make everyday. BBC News writes:

'The stories behind the success of some of the UK's celebrities have been revealed in a series of self-portraits.
The sketches each illustrate the start and end of a personal transformation in their lives in a single, unbroken line.'
 

Vanessa-Mae's drawing is shown below.

Comments by VMSPOS: Vanessa-Mae is known to have charity for children in need very close to her heart. She regularly contributed and participated in actions to raise money to protect children against cruelty and to support children in need. She donate parts of the royalties for her album sales to the  NSPCC, the National Society for Protection of Children against Cruelty.

sources: Action For children and BBC news

New video material of Vanessa-Mae
The 2 videos in embedded player below show Vanessa-Mae performing at age 13 at the Children's Royal Variety show of 1992 that was broadcasted by the BBC. The videos are part of a  series of 14 of the complete Children's Variety show that is available at  P1RAN channel at You Tube. The 2 videos below are the highlights from this series of 14 with Vanessa-Mae and are available at the Vanessa-Mae channel at You Tube. See also our current Vanessa-Mae chronicle to read more about these videos.

sources: P1RAN channel and Vanessa-Mae channel

Vanessa-Mae chronicle
The new Vanessa-Mae chronicle # 6 deals with Vanessa-Mae's performance at the Children's Royal Variety in 1992. The first lines of the story are as follows:

It always is and remains very rewarding for as dedicated fan to find out something real new about your  idol. I felt a great excitement that P1RAN channel at You Tube listed a series of 14 videos that compiled together a Children Royal Variety show dating from 1992 that the BBC broadcasted back then, and that Vanessa-Mae was mentioned to be one of the performers in that particular show. To our surprise, this show dated form 1992 which means that Vanessa-Mae was only 13 years old then; it was the time that she recorded her first 3 classical albums, and that she had just finished her first tour with the London  Mozart Players for the commemoration of the fact that Mozart died 200 years ago. Material from these initial stages of Vanessa-Mae's career are very rare. A few documentaries and official promotion videos about Vanessa-Mae use filmed material of the Nicholson family that show Vanessa-Mae at a young age, but video material of full performances by Vanessa-Mae at a young age before the release of The Violin Player remain rare and are unique without a doubt.

To read the full story, do go to Vanessa-Mae chronicle.

source: Vanessa-Mae chronicle

2009 update # 32 of June 20

Four new Vanessa-Mae videos on our Vanessa-Mae YouTube channel

The first video is an interview and short documentary from the Canadian television when Vanessa-Mae visited there in 1997 to promote her new albums Storm and China Girl. Vanessa-Mae was interviewed in a small studio wearing a wonderful short Chinese style red dress, and she was obviously very heavily made up.

The second video is an illegal recording made by a dear friend who attended the nomination launch for the Classical Brit Awards in 2004 that took place in the London Regent Hotel. Vanessa-Mae played Bach Street Prelude there live at the end of the ceremony. Look how beautifully she was dressed in a spectacular purple top.

The third video was made in the autumn of 2004 when Vanessa-Mae performed at the German television show Music Fur Millionen to raise money for charity that was broadcasted on ZDF national channel. Vanessa-Mae played Sabre dance, wearing a fantastic short cream yellow dress decorated with embroiders, and being heavily made up with blushed cheeks, lots of black mascara and green accents for her eyes in shadow and liner, all combined to create a beautiful presentation.

The fourth video shows Vanessa-Mae performing with JD the very touching song I Still Can Hear Your Voice.

source: The Vanessa-Mae channel at You Tube

Vanessa-Mae internet findings
Vanessa-Mae recently posed with her Audi for Octane Magazine, issue of March 27, 2009. For Octane Magazine, she posed with her Audi RS6. The website Women And Wheels quotes as follows from the Octane Magazine:

Photographed Vanessa Mae (www.vanessa-mae.com) for Octane Magazine (www.classicandperformancecar.com) yesterday in a quiet mews in Kensington. She came across as very charming, helpful and unpretentious, which is more than you can say for some celebs. We were there because she runs an Audi RS6 (www.audi.co.uk), making her probably the fastest fiddler in the world. She’s also quite a car-nut and knows exactly what makes her car go quite so fast (it’s to do with the massive engine and two massive turbochargers).

The 2 nice photos of Vanessa-Mae with her Audi RS6 come from the Octane Magazine.

source: Women And Wheels 

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Comment by VMSPOS: We do not have the Octane Magazine issue with this story about Vanessa-Mae. We would appreciate if anyone able and willing to provide us with a copy, or with scans of the article about Vanessa-Mae, to contact us by email.
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Vanessa-Mae stayed at Arcadia hotel in Bratislava, Slovakia when she visited there for her Choreography tour concert on December 13 of 2007. The photo below shows Vanessa-Mae posing with the hotel manager.

source: Arcadia hotel

2009 update # 31 of June 11

New gallery 6 with photos of Vanessa-Mae at Tour For Change concerts and performances
The new gallery 6 of our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae brings photos that were made during Vanessa-Mae's concerts and performances of her Tour For Change in 2001 and 2002. Gallery 6 holds 16 wonderful photos of which 5 are shown below in preview. Please go to gallery 6 to see the full series and read our descriptions. The description offered below these 5 photos shown here apply to the 2 photos on the left. The gallery holds 6 photos of this event in total.

Shortly after the release in the UK of her new album Subject To Change in May 2001, Vanessa-Mae took her new music with the single Destiny to the British club circuit with considerable successes. This series of photos show Vanessa-Mae at one of these shows and at a posing for photographers immediately thereafter. She is dressed here in her so-called Destiny outfit of all black leather with a very short mini skirt with small leather strings around her legs, a top of leather strings wrapped around her upper body leaving the belly button exposed, walking on knee high black leather boots with spike heels. At all these performances, Vanessa-Mae's face was heavily made up with a covering pale complexion to which her overwhelmingly red painted glossy lips and with black liner and lots of mascara accentuated eyes served as striking contrasts. Vanessa-Mae's daring all black leather outfit and the excessive make-up certainly added to the successes of these spectacular performances.

Photos of Vanessa-Mae
The 2 photos of Vanessa-Mae shown below were added to gallery 4 of our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae. Gallery 4 holds photos that were made during concerts of Vanessa-Mae's Storm On World Tour in 1998.

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2009 update # 30 of June 6

Vanessa-Mae news: Vanessa-Mae attended the preview for VIP's of the annual Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Last June 3, Vanessa-Mae attended the preview for VIP's of the annual Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. The 6 nice photos below show Vanessa-Mae at her outdoor arrival. For this occasion, Vanessa-Mae used a simple but very nice cotton grey knee length dress with small shoulder straps, and she was on beautiful bright red open shoes with high heels. Vanessa-Mae was only moderately made up with simple black definition of eyes and brows, but with excessive lipstick in a bright colour red that formed a perfect match with her shoes.

sources: Zimbio, Film Magic, Getty Images, Rex Features, Wire Images and ANP

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2009 update # 29 of May 30

Vanessa-Mae news: Britain's Got Talent star Sue Son met her all time idol  Vanessa-Mae.
Behind the scenes of Britain's Got Talent, violinist candidate Sue Son met with her all time idol Vanessa-Mae: see the embedded video below that is available at YouTube.

source: YouTube

Vanessa-Mae chronicle: Vanessa-Mae and Lionel : 10 years of being a happy couple together!!
The new Vanessa-Mae chronicle deals with the fact that Vanessa-Mae and Lionel form a happy couple together for now already 10 years. They met in Val D' Isere, France, when Vanessa-Mae was enjoying a skiing holidays there. Here are the first lines of the story:

In about early April, or perhaps end of March, Vanessa-Mae and Lionel mark their 10th anniversary of the fact that they met for the first time in Val D' Isere in 1999. Not too much is known about how they met exactly, but it must have been during a skiing holidays of Vanessa-Mae. Also known is the fact that at that time, the parents of Lionel possessed a store in Val D' Isere for skiing attributes. Vanessa-Mae and Lionel ran into each other in that store for the first time. Fate dictated that they met again during that same holidays of Vanessa-Mae in Val D' Isere.

To read the full story and see photos of Vanessa-Mae together with Lionel, do go to the Vanessa-Mae chronicle.

New collection acquisitions
VMSPOS recently acquired the 10 photos shown below for our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae.

VMSPOS provides the following descriptions of those 10 fantastic photos of Vanessa-Mae.

top row:
Photo 1 and 2 from the left show Vanessa-Mae performing at Buckingham Palace on April 3 of 1998 when she was invited to play at the closing ceremonial dinner evening of the ASEM II conference for 23 head of state, including Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II. At her performance, Vanessa-Mae used a shining golden dress and she was heavily made up - look at the dolled up eyes in the 2nd photo. The other 3 photos to the right were made on June 3 of 2004 when Vanessa-Mae attended the preview for VIP's of the summer exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. Here on this occasion, Vanessa-Mae showed a great long glamorous dress of yellow shining satin with glints of green, purple and blue in a design of a fine fantasy print. Remarkable is that Vanessa-Mae used very decorative jewelleries of a spectacular combination of necklace with precious stones and matching large earrings. Vanessa-Mae had her long black hair tied on her back so that the large earrings were very visible, as well to fully expose her perfectly made up visage - mark the fine red lipstick and against her flawless complexioned skin. Vanessa-Mae definitely delivered a perfect presentation with her appearance.

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The 2 photos on the left show Vanessa-Mae performance at a press meeting in Seoul on December 6 of 2004 when she visited South Korea to promote her album Choreography that was just released at that time. During the press conference, Vanessa-Mae answered questions, and she played a few pieces of her new music. The 3 photos to the right show Vanessa-Mae when she visited the preview for VIP's of the summer exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2007 on June 6. Vanessa-Mae wears a fine highly closed silk dress by David Tang of the Shanghai Tang fashion stores. Vanessa-Mae adores the silk creation by David Tang because of the flowing and  flatteringly cut. Do mark Vanessa-Mae excessively used lipstick in matching colour red to the mid piece of her silk dress, as part of her perfectly styled face wear.

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2009 update # 28 of May 24

Vanessa-Mae news:
Vanessa-Mae announced details of her Westonbirt Arboretum concert with a special guest appearance of  The All Angels.
Vanessa-Mae announced that The All Angels will appear with her on stage for a special guest collaboration at her Westonbirt Arboretum concert this summer on July 18. The guest appearance alongside Vanessa-Mae was confirmed by The All Angels. Vanessa-Mae announced that she will be joined on stage by her band and the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Anthony Inglis.

Vanessa-Mae's concert at the Westonbirt Arboretum will be her first concert in  the UK since her shows in 2005 in the London Royal Albert Hall (May 12) and at the Henley-On-Thames music festival (July 17).

About The All Angels - quoted from their official website:
Four very different teenage girls. One shared passion for music. MELANIE NAKHLA, 18 (Date of Birth 29.12.88); CHARLOTTE RITCHIE, 18 (Date of Birth 29.08.89); LAURA WRIGHT, 17 (Date of Birth 17.06.90); DAISY CHUTE, 18 (Date of birth 17.08.89)

In the autumn of 2006, the four teenage members of All Angels were a phenomenon-in-waiting, about to deliver their debut album to an unsuspecting world. A year later, they can justly claim to be the World's First Female Classical Supergroup. They performed at the Classical Brits, where their debut album was nominated for Album Of The Year, and were watched by 10 million viewers when they sang in front of the Queen at the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall. They've shared stages with Russell Watson and Katherine Jenkins, and have unleashed their collective lung-power in support of the England rugby team at several crucial international matches. Their first album was the UK's fastest-selling debut for a classical act, and won them a platinum disc. Now they're eager to find out if their follow-up can do even better.

sources: This is Wiltshire and The All Angels, The Forestry Commission

2009 update # 27 of May 9

Vanessa-Mae news:
Vanessa-Mae will release a new album in 2010, her management Merlin Music Company states
Vanessa-Mae is currently working on a new album that is scheduled for release in 2010. According to the Merlin Music Company, Vanessa-Mae is also active in various television projects that are not, however, specified further. We quote Merlin Music Company as follows:

Vanessa is currently playing concerts all over the world whilst working on various new music and television projects for 2009 & 2010.
Vanessa will perform her first public UK concert for a number of years at Westonbirt this summer and is currently working on various projects which will see her return with an album in 2010.

source: Vanessa-Mae at Merlin Music Company

Vanessa-Mae video material:
In 2004 or 2005, Rhodri Owen interviewed Vanessa-Mae for the Audi channel for the series In The Front Seat that they used for promotional purposes. We already had a short version of the program, but VMSPOS managed recently to lay hands on the full version. We made this full version in two parts available in our Vanessa-Mae channel at You Tube. these 2 videos are below in the embedded players available at VMSPOS. See how Vanessa-Mae talks with Rhodri Owen about her career, her violins and, of course, about her Audi cars and fast cars in general.

Rhodri Owen introduces Vanessa-Mae as follows:

'one of the best musicians in the business who turned the world of classical music upside down with her innovative approach of a traditional discipline.'

and then Rhodri Owen continues:

'did I mention that she happens to be beautiful, internationally renowned and commercially one of the best selling artists of our times in any music genre, she is of course Vanessa-Mae.'

Do notice that in part 1, after being introduced by Rhodri Owen, the camera turns towards Vanessa-Mae, first showing her sitting on a garden seat in Holland Park in soft focus from large distance, and then zooms in on her white boots with spike heels, and finally glances over Vanessa-Mae's face, in particularly focuses on her lips and eyes to indicate clearly that she wears make-up with red lipstick, foundation crème, little shadow and mascara.

2009 update # 26 of May 2

Vanessa-Mae news:
April 27, 2009: Vanessa-Mae and Lionel attend the launch party of  the Michael Kors flagship fashion store in London, on New Bond Street.
Vanessa-Mae and Lionel attend the of Michael Kors organised for the launch of his new Flagship fashion store on New Bond Street in London. The photos below show Vanessa-Mae wearing casual jeans with a green short jacket with ruffled collar, and she is on pointed black boots. Her face looks perfect and quite natural with not too much visible make-up, yet showing excess of bright red lipstick.

sources: The Telegraph, This Is London, Daily Mail Online, Jamd, Wire Images and Getty Images.

April 26, 2009: The Sunday Times estimates Vanessa-Mae's wealth to be £ 30 million on their annual rich list.
The Sunday Times ranks Vanessa-Mae with an estimated fortune of £ 30 million on position 1771 on their annual rich list in the UK. Among musicians, Vanessa-Mae is just outside the top 50. The Sunday Times writes in their report on Vanessa-Mae:

In all, she has sold 10m albums worldwide although there is little evident in her company, Fretless,
with just £160,000 net assets in 2007. Nicholson [VMSPOS - surname of Vanessa-Mae] has been quiet on the music front of late and so we clip her back to £30m.

sources: The Sunday Times annual rich list and  Sunday Times report on Vanessa-Mae

Vanessa-Mae video material:
A very interesting video about a young Vanessa-Mae at age 12 is available on YouTube. The BBC broadcasted this material on September 21 of 1991 in a series that was called 'All about me.' The video contains unique material that shows Vanessa-Mae at age 12 practising together with Vasko Vassilev on piano, talking with her mother in the family home garden about her animal, and walking her dogs in the park together with her stepfather Graham Nicholson. The video is below in embedded player format.

Vanessa-Mae Chronicle:
In the 4th Vanessa-Mae Chronicle of 2009, VMSPOS discusses and explains some remarkable adventures of Vanessa-Mae's valuable acoustic Guadagnini violin. The title of the story and some initial lines are as follows:

REMARKABLE WHERE ABOUT FACTS OF VANESSA-MAE's ACOUSTIC GUADAGNINI VIOLIN - GIZMO

All fans of Vanessa-Mae are, or at least should be,  familiar with the fact Vanessa-Mae received her acoustic Guadagnini violin as a gift from her parents on her 10th birthday. Shortly thereafter, she made her life stage concert debut with full orchestra. Vanessa-Mae's parents bought the instrument at an auction for  £150,000. Also well known is that the violin was stolen from Vanessa-Mae's family home in Kensington, London, in 1995. It was returned by Scotland Yard safely so that Vanessa-Mae could announce her Red Hot Tour in the UK on April 6 of 1995, publicly at a press conference and act in a photo shoot holding her favourite acoustic Guadagnini violin in a loving embrace - VMSPOS: 3 nice photos follow next, so do go to Vanessa-Mae Chronicle to read the full story!

2009 update # 25 of April 25

Vanessa-Mae News: Vanessa-Mae provides her comments to questions asked by fans on the occasion of her 30th birthday, last October 27, 2008

Vanessa-Mae provided her answers to questions submitted by fans of the Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum (VMF) on the occasion of her 30th birthday. It has become a tradition (firstly organised in 2000) that Fans organised in the Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum send Vanessa-Mae a present for her birthday. Part of the present is a list with questions about issues of concern by these fans that are submitted to Vanessa-Mae. Vanessa-Mae is so kind to answer these questions every year, and she has revealed inside information on several issues that was not reported in the media, and that was not publicly known yet. Normally, Vanessa-Mae sends her answer within 1 or 2 weeks, but for reasons of her busy schedule, her answers came only recently. List of the questions and the comments by Vanessa-Mae are available in the Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum in the topic Vanessa-Mae's answers.

Vanessa-Mae apologises for the delay and thanks her fans for their patience!

The following interesting highlights come from Vanessa-Mae's comments:

On her new forthcoming album: 'I am at the initial stages of an exciting project that will be a whole new experience for me

On her acoustic violin: 'I can disclose that my violin was seized by St Petersburg customs last December and that it was only released about 2 weeks before my show in Moscow this March!'

On BBC's The Making Of Me and her mother: 'I found out that the BBC programme introduced me to many (and even me to myself!). I obviously owe much to my mother but I now feel at peace regarding our relationship.'

On the Siemens EMI party organised for her 20th birthday: 'I was actually quite sad at that PR party as I had no control over my private life in those days.

On becoming 30 and cutting her hair short because of that: 'I had always thought that 30 was a physical milestone, but when I actually got to it, I did not have the heart to cut my hair as I remembered how much I disliked my short hair.'

On why she uses her acrylic Ted Brewer violin so rarely: 'My led acrylic Ted Brewer violin is stunning, but I like the feeling that it has more impact when it is used rarely.'

Vanessa-Mae ends her comments with the following final statement to her fans: 'Thank you all so much for your support and I hope to play to you all soon. In the meantime, stay happy and safe!

To read Vanessa-Mae's complete comments to the questions, do visit Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum in the topic Vanessa-Mae's answers.

source: Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum in the topic Vanessa-Mae's answers.

Comments by VMSPOS: Vanessa-Mae is so sweet to provides her fans in the Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum with her interesting and revealing comments and answers. A few remarkable statements a worth commenting on:

1 Obviously, we all fans have to exert some more patience on the release of Vanessa-Mae's new album - she is only yet in the initial stages and the release will take a while, but hopefully we will see a new album this year 2009.

2 It is sad that the relation between Vanessa-Mae and her mother is so troubled and disturbed. We are glad to learn that Vanessa-Mae is now able to place her youth and the role her mother played in building her career in perspective and that she has come to peace with the relationship she currently has with her mother. We are so glad that she participated in the The Making Of Me and that she learnt from this so many, also about herself. It certainly helped us as fans to understand Vanessa-Mae much better.

3 It is beyond our comprehension that St Petersburg customs came to seize Vanessa-Mae's valuable acoustic Guadagnini violin, especially considering that she has been there several times before. Even if the idea about illegal transportation was to be conceivable, the question still remains why it had to take almost 3 months before the instrument was released to the rightful owner, Vanessa-Mae. Anyway, we now have a clear picture why Vanessa-Mae's concert on December 5 of 2008 in St Petersburg was cancelled.

2009 update # 24 of April 18

Videos of Vanessa-Mae at her Tour For Change concerts in Oxford and London, UK November 2001.
We made a series 16 videos of Vanessa-Mae at her Tour For change concerts in Oxford and London of November 2001 available at the Vanessa-Mae channel on YouTube. We received the video tape from a dear friend and colleague fan of Vanessa-Mae who attended these concerts. Recently, we digitalised the tape via a hard disc recorder and made the videos available. Below is one video in embedded player showing Vanessa-Mae playing Storm. For the complete series, do visit the Vanessa-Mae channel on YouTube.

New photos of Vanessa-Mae found.
We recently found new photos of Vanessa-Mae on the internet.

The first photo on the top row left shows Vanessa-Mae probable in November 1997 when she visited the USA to promote her new album China Girl that was just released on the American continent. We assume that the photo was made during or after a signing session that Vanessa-Mae did in a record store. We have a video of Vanessa-Mae at this signing session in New York available at the Vanessa-Mae channel on YouTube. The video is below in the embedded player, so judge for yourself if the the photo originates from the same event as the video shows. Vanessa-Mae wears her fantastic bright yellow silk blouse in combination with a red silk suit. Do mark, that Vanessa-Mae's face was heavily made up - black lined eyes and a striking mark of bright red glossy lipstick in a perfectly smooth complexioned visage - to counterbalance the overwhelming decorative nature of the gleaming silk outfit!

The next 3 photos on the top line were made during the press conference that Vanessa-Mae gave on July 5 of 2007 in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, on the day that she would perform a sold out concert in the local Winter Sport Palace. Here, Vanessa-Mae was in a fine silk dress; her face was of course perfect with eyes defined with black liner and mascara, excessive lipstick in matching red to the front of her dress. The final 3 photos on the bottom line come from a press conference in India that she visited in August of 2007 to do 3 concerts in Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore. At this event, Vanessa-Mae was wearing a fine multi-colour spotted blouse, her shining black hair tied and pulled backwards out of her face that looks heavily made up.

Vanessa-Mae internet findings.
Recently we discovered the website Rahmanism dedicated to the Indian musician and composer A.R Rahman. Of course, all fans of Vanessa-Mae are familiar with the fact that A.R. Rahman composed Raga's Dance on Vanessa-Mae's album Choreography, a truly great piece of music that shows Rahman's ability to create for others to excel in their field of speciality; in case of Vanessa-Mae, Rahman composed a piece for violin virtuosity outside her immediate style of playing. Rahmanism provides a nice article on Vanessa-Mae and her album Choreography, and links to VMSPOS for more information. Moreover, Rahmanism uses photos from VMSPOS that are, unfortunately, currently not available anymore, or have been renamed, resulting in dead links.

2009 update # 23 of April 10

New photo gallery available.
A new photo gallery 7 is now available with 39 photos of Vanessa-Mae during her Choreography Tour concerts in the period of 2005-2008. A few examples are shown below. To see all, please go to gallery 7. A gallery 6 with photos of Vanessa-Mae during her Tour For Change concerts will be available in the near future - so stay tuned!

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2009 update # 22 of April 4

New collection acquisitions: 4 new photos of Vanessa-Mae.
We recently acquired 4 new photos of Vanessa-Mae that were made during her concert last year in Prague on September 26, 2008. The 2 photos on the left show Vanessa-Mae playing her acoustic Guadagnini violin with an expression of dedicated concentration on her made up face of which the blue shadow and purple lipstick are obviously noticeable. Vanessa-Mae was dressed in blue jeans and a midnight blue sleeveless shirt with wide ruffled collar, to which the colours used in her make-up match nicely. These 4 photos, together with others from Choreography tour concerts, will be part of a new gallery 7 that we aim to start somewhere this coming week.

2009 update # 21 of March 30

Vanessa-Mae Chronicle.
A new Vanessa-Mae Chronicle is available and deals with Vanessa-Mae's involvement in the campaign to promote the new Mercedes C Class car that was launched early 2000. The first lines of the story as follows:

Around February of 2000, Mercedes launched a new model for their Mercedes C class car. Mercedes approached Vanessa-Mae to involved in a promotion campaign for the European market. Vanessa-Mae's role in this campaign is in line with her participations for other valued commodities for some other world wide operating firms. Vanessa-Mae fit in these roles very well because she is a world wide famous celebrity with an undisputed  and irreproachable conduct, an absolute necessity for someone to bring additional value into a campaign for launching such commodities to the market successfully. Siemens Mobile Phones, Rover Cars, Mercedes, Rado watches, Oriental Hotels and Audi Cars are the most well known commodities that were, and some still are today, endorsed by Vanessa-Mae. 

The campaign used various promotional material, and we are so lucky to have several of these in our collection. The Vanessa-Mae Chronicle uses scans and photos of this material as illustration. A few scans are shown below here.

2009 update # 20 of March 28

New photo gallery available!
VMSPOS launches gallery 5 of our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae with 29 photos of Vanessa-Mae during various special performances that were made during the years 1999 and 2000. We do not have photos of Vanessa-Mae at concerts of her Original Four Seasons Tour, but instead we present this series of photos made at special performances during 1999 and early 2000. A few of these photos are shown below.

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2009 update # 19 of March 22

Vanessa-Mae news: more photos of Vanessa-Mae at her sold out concert at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow on March 18, 2009
We found the following series of 7 photos of Vanessa-Mae at her sold out concert at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, last Wednesday March 18. Vanessa-Mae played music from her most recent album Choreography and from her albums Storm, Subject To Change, and The Violin Player, using both her acoustic Guadagnini and electric Zeta violins.

These photos clearly show the elaborated nature of Vanessa-Mae's silver coloured dress: mark all the details of the decorative embroiders! Also, the strong eye definition with black and dark shadow, as well as the striking mark of red lipstick in her pale complexioned visage, indicate that Vanessa-Mae's face was considerable made up for this concert, well inline with common practice for her performances and public appearances.

source: Pure People

Comments by VMSPOS: Please step forward and contact us via the email link below in case you have more information about this concert of Vanessa-Mae. Or submit your review on this concert via info on Vanessa-Mae's concert  in Moscow

2009 update # 18 of March 20

Vanessa-Mae news: Vanessa-Mae delivered a sold out concert at the Kremlin Palace, Moscow, last Wednesday March 18
Vanessa-Mae performed a live sold-out concert at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, on last Wednesday March 18 in front of a enthusiastic audience that rewarded her with standing ovations. Vanessa-Mae played music from her most recent album Choreography and from her albums Storm, Subject To Change, and The Violin Player, using both her acoustic Guadagnini and electric Zeta violins. Vanessa-Mae was dressed in a gorgeous knee length silver dress with sparkling ornaments and embroiders that had strings attached to her arms serving as open sleeves, and she walked on knee high brown leather boots with flat soles. Vanessa-Mae had her long shining black hair loose in free style, and her face was, of course as always at her concerts, heavily made up with a smooth covering crème, a lot of red lipstick, and a dark brown line of shadow on her upper eye lid with further definition of sharp black liner and mascara on the lashes - view the photos below to see how great she looked out there. Vanessa-Mae had a silver belt to which her adapters were attached on her back.

YouTube has a series of 12 videos of various numbers that Vanessa-Mae played at her concert, see the list below:

Vanessa-Mae in Moscow - Sabre Dance
Vanessa-Mae in Moscow - Havana Slide
Vanessa-Mae in Moscow - Solace
Vanessa-Mae in Moscow - Retro
Vanessa-Mae in Moscow - Bach Street Prelude
Vanessa-Mae in Moscow - Destiny
Vanessa-Mae in Moscow - Hocus Pocus
Vanessa-Mae in Moscow - Laughing Buddha
Vanessa-Mae in Moscow - Contradanza
Vanessa-Mae in Moscow - Tango De Los Exilados
Vanessa-Mae in Moscow - Bolero for violin (only part of the song, unfortunately!)
Vanessa-Mae in Moscow - Storm
Vanessa-Mae in Moscow - Toccata and Fugue
Vanessa-Mae in Moscow - Sabre Dance reprise

sources: Voice of Russia, ANP photo service, Photoshot and YouTube

2009 update # 17 of March 14

Vanessa-Mae news: Vanessa-Mae will perform a live concert at the Kremlin Palace, Moscow Russia, on coming Wednesday, March 18.
Vanessa-Mae will travel to Moscow, Russia, to do a concert there on Wednesday, March 18, in the Kremlin Palace. Tickets are available online at parter.ru (automatic translation by Google Translate from parter.ru), but the concert is almost sold out, leaving only a few mid price available in category 9 at RUB 6050 (about EUR 135)! Tickets range from RUB 13,200 to RUB1980 (about EUR 295 to EUR 44). This will be already the 5th time that Vanessa-Mae visits Moscow to do a concert, the most recent time being March 7 of 2005, and her ever first concert was for the Storm On World Tour and took place on May 1 of 1998. Vanessa-Mae will bring music from her albums Choreography, Storm, Subject To Change and from The Violin Player, including pieces form Bach, Vivaldi and Khachaturian.

The Russian press has already paid attention to Vanessa-Mae's forthcoming visit to the capital city of Russia, see: the English Moscow News and Rian (in Russian language but via Google Translate an acceptable impression of the contents can be obtained).

VMSPOS will report on Vanessa-Mae's concert, hopefully with photos, as soon as reviews and information becomes available to us!

sources: parter.ru, Moscow News and Rian

2009 update # 16 of March 11

New videos of Vanessa-Mae at her concert in Argentina in 1998 at our YouTube Vanessa-Mae Channel
EMI made a documentary about Vanessa-Mae during her visit to Argentina during September of 1998. The documentary films Vanessa-Mae in Buenos Aires and she talked about her life and music while sitting in a cafe somewhere in the city centre. The documentary also contains several numbers from the concert that Vanessa-Mae delivered on September 20 in the Parque de la Costa, in Buenos Aires. The scenes from her concert are now available at the Vanessa-Mae Channel in 6 very interesting videos. The direct links to the videos are provided below together with a brief comment.

Vanessa-Mae plays Storm: The video starts with introductory speech of Vanessa-Mae in the Spanish language to her audience. Mark Vanessa-Mae's funny accent and the way she pronounces her own name. Vanessa-Mae wears her long multi-coloured silk coat during this music.

Vanessa-Mae plays I Am A Doun: Note during the close-up when she sings the vocal intro part, Vanessa-Mae's smouldering eye make-up and red lips as indication that she was considerable made up during this concert. Vanessa-Mae wears jeans and a black sleeveless T-shirt and has a small band around her right upper arm.

Vanessa-Mae sings and plays  I Feel Love: Vanessa-Mae takes of her long silk coat and starts singing while she walks and dances over the stage, having a fine crucifix pendant charmingly dangling on her chest, visible by sparkling in the spotlights. During the song, Vanessa-Mae addresses the audience in Spanish to cheer them up and bring enthusiasm to the crowd. Vanessa-Mae's month appears very wide as a result of the overwhelmingly rich applied red lipstick.

Vanessa-Mae plays Hocus Pocus: Notice how Vanessa-Mae' body language shows her involvement and dedication to her music.

Vanessa-Mae plays Retro: Vanessa-Mae's white and healthy teeth really blink against her red painted lips.

Vanessa-Mae plays Storm as encore: Vanessa-Mae ends her concert by replay of Storm as encore. The audience goes wild when she jumps off the stage. The video contains a few shots of Vanessa-Mae in Buenos Aires and ends with the end titles and credits.

We plan to bring a few parts from the documentary showing Vanessa-Mae in Buenos Aires soon; so stay tuned at this space of VMSPOS or on the Vanessa-Mae channel.

 source: The Vanessa-Mae channel at YouTube

2009 update # 15 of March 7

Videos of Vanessa-Mae in Argentina, 1998.
Vanessa-Mae visited Argentina in during September of 1998 for promotional activities and a concert on September 20 at the Parque de la Costa in Buenos Aires. Vanessa-Mae appeared in 2 televisions shows, filmed an official documentary in Buenos Aires, and made a guest appearance at a concert of The Backstreet Boys. VMSPOS made 4 short videos available online at our Vanessa-Mae channel at YouTube. The quality of the videos is not great, but we consider the material to be unique and assume that many fans of Vanessa-Mae will find it interesting to to take notice of these videos.

Vanessa-Mae joins The Backstreet Boys: Vanessa-Mae joins the Backstreet Boys live on stage as guest musician at their concert in Buenos Aires. Vanessa-Mae was dressed, like the Backstreet Boys, completely in red colours of a fine Chinese style knee length with rich embroiders of Chinese figures. Do notice that Vanessa-Mae's face was very heavily made up, especially the smouldering dark eye definition and bright red lipstick are well descriptive.

Vanessa-Mae plays I Feel Love: Vanessa-Mae at a television show singing and playing I Feel Love. Vanessa-Mae was in a long green dress, had considerable make-up with with lots of fading greenish shadow.

Vanessa-Mae plays Storm: During the appearance an other television show, Vanessa-Mae was first interviewed and then played Storm.

Vanessa-Mae plays I Feel Love: During the same television show, Vanessa-Mae was again interviewed shortly after she had performed Storm, and played I Feel Love after this to finish her appearance.

Please feel free to comment on the videos at YouTube, and submit your rating.

New photos of Vanessa-Mae.
We recently received the following 10 photos of Vanessa-Mae. A brief description of the photos and the occasions of the events with dates follows below the table.

photo 1	photo 2	photo 3	photo 4
photo 5	photo 6	photo 7	photo 8
photo 9	photo 10	photo 11

Photos 1-4: On November 10 of 2008, the L'Oreal Legends Gala took place in New York, a charity event that succeeded to raise over $ 4.3 million for the benefit of The Ovarian Cancer Fund. Vanessa-Mae performed in an enchanted concert after dinner at that gala evening. On these photos, Vanessa-Mae is shown playing her acrylic Ted Brewer violin  - see for more information Vanessa-Mae's violins at VMSPOS. Vanessa-Mae was dressed in a bright red gala gown and she was made up with excess of matching red for her lipstick that bordered in a perfectly sharp line to her covering foundation crème that was used for her face wear to create an impeccable flawless complexion serving to enhance her natural beauty adequately. Vanessa-Mae's eyes, bright looking underneath perfectly shaped brows, were well defined with some shadow, a lot of black mascara and liner - see for a detailed look of Vanessa-Mae heavily made up visage especially photo 1!

Photos 5 and 6: Vanessa-Mae visited together with Lionel, the Cartier International Polo days in Windsor on July 27 of 2008. VMSPOS listed already 2 photos of this event in the update of February 14. Here we have two other close ups of Vanessa-Mae at this event that show that Vanessa-Mae had cosmetic face coverage but that her make-up was only descriptive in use of excess red lipstick. Vanessa-Mae's beige long sleeved shirt looks really fantastic. She had a small black shoulder, perhaps to keep sunglasses and some make-up attributes in order to maintain her complexion and lipstick in perfect condition, every now and then.

Photos 7 and 8: As Audi user herself, Vanessa-Mae attended the launch party for the new Audi TT model on May 9 of 2005. For the occasion, Vanessa-Mae was wearing a fabulous tight fitting short light suede jacket to half way her upper body, revealing the white T-shirt she had underneath, and blue jeans. Her shining long black hair was in free style on her shoulders and back, framing her visage that looked very natural with only a minimum of coverage, though with a lot of bright red lipstick and black for eye definition: a really superb sporty presentation of our Vanessa-Mae.

Photos 9 and 10: Vanessa-Mae visited South Korea, early December of 2004 to promote her new album Choreography. The photos show Vanessa-Mae at a press conference on December 6 in Seoul. Vanessa-Mae was dressed in a green flimsy sleeveless with a low cut V-neck. She had large pair of earrings with green round green pendants that showed nicely from underneath her long shining black hair. Vanessa-Mae's face was made up expressively with covering crème, some nice pink blush on her cheeks, a lot of black mascara to accentuate lashes and eye brows, and richly used red lipstick. Vanessa-Mae caught extensive attention form the media with this fantastic presentation.

Photo 11: On her journey to East Asia for promotional intentions, Vanessa-Mae passed Schiphol Airport Amsterdam late October of 2004. She had a meeting with the press and did a television interview - see Vanessa-Mae interview at RTL4 part 1, Vanessa-Mae interview at RTL4 part 2, Vanessa-Mae interview at RTL4 part 3, and Vanessa-Mae interview at RTL4 part 4 videos at YouTube. She also did a photo session with a Dutch photographer. Vanessa-Mae was dressed in a blue silk dress with open back, and her face was heavily made up. We hope to get more of the wonderful photos of this session one day.

2009 Update # 14 of March 3

Vanessa-Mae News: Vanessa-Mae was on BBC 1 television
February, 26, 2009: Vanessa-Mae appeared on BBC 1 television show This Week to participate in a discussion on wise women. The BBC website describes as follows:

Intelligence is in the spotlight - with the success of Gail Trimble on University Challenge - as violinist Vanessa-Mae looks at how society views clever people, especially women.

We quote Vanessa-Mae from the show twice, as follows:

'I think that people don't take for granted that a woman is intelligent, which is bizarre'

'In this country, people just want their children to be happy,
but to be happy as a child, means to invest time
and hard work in becoming a better adult'

The video is available at the BBC website, as well as on YouTube - see the links as sourced below!

sources: Vanessa-Mae official website, BBC This Week and Vanessa-Mae on wise women at YouTube

2009 update # 13 of March 1

Vanessa-Mae videos
A new video of Vanessa-Mae acting in an impromptu open air free performance on May 15 of 2001 on Trafalgar Square is now available at the Vanessa-Mae channel at YouTube - see Vanessa-Mae performing impromptu on Trafalgar square.

Vanessa-Mae chronicle # 2 of 2009 - ASEM and Vanessa-Mae: Bridging the gap
Probable the most rare and most valuable item in our collection of Vanessa-Mae material is the special 2cd box Vanessa-Mae that was especially released in a very limited number of copies by EMI as gift to all the delegate members present on the closing ceremonial evening of the ASEM II - Asian Europe - summit held in London form April 2-4 of 1998. Vanessa-Mae was honoured by prime minister Tony Blair with an invitation to perform a special concert after the ceremonial closing dinner of the ASEM II conference in Buckingham Palace in the presence of HM Queen Elisabeth II, several other members of the Royal Family, 25 heads of state, and several other senior members of the various delegations from the Asian and European continents.

To continue reading the full story, go to Vanessa-Mae chronicle

The team of the VMSPOS website
copyrights of the text © VMSPOS@ http://www.vanessa-mae.nu, The Netherlands, 2009

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2009 update # 12 of February 15

Vanessa-Mae news: Sky Arts 2 will broadcast Vanessa-Mae's Alternative Classical Concert on Thursday at 8pm (GMT)
Sky Arts 2 will broadcast Vanessa-Mae's Alternative Classical Concert that she performed on January 25 of 1997 at the Symphony Hall of Birmingham, UK. Vanessa-Mae saw her classical tour concerts in the UK hampered because foreign members of her orchestra were refused work permits for the UK. Sky Arts provides the following description on their website for the announcement of Vanessa-Mae's concert:

January 1997 saw young violin star Vanessa-Mae scheduled to bring her pop-classical tour from Germany to the UK for a series of 14 concerts. However, legal wrangles prevented the entry of her backing musicians - so in the space of 48 hours, Vanessa-Mae devised a new concert programme to keep the fans who had tickets for the tour happy.

The result was a triumph of resourcefulness over adversity, with an impromptu band being assembled virtually overnight, and a new programme of popular classics put together on the hop.

One of the concerts - at the Birmingham Symphony Hall - was filmed for this programme, giving you the chance to enjoy the show which ensured that not a single ticket for the original tour was returned. Vanessa-Mae brings her effervescence and undoubted technique to a range of popular classics including the showpiece solo of Bach's E major Partita Prelude, the joyful ensemble work in Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet, the fizzing exuberance of Rossini's String Sonata No 3, and several surprises.

sources: Vanessa-Mae in Alternative Classical concert on Sky Arts 2 and Program schedule at Sky Arts 2 for Thursday, February 26

Comments by VMSPOS: We have seen this wonderful concert already and have it in our collection of digital video material. We recommend the concert to all who dares to step outside the traditional classical heritage, and of course to all fans of Vanessa-Mae who haven't seen this great performance before. Enjoy Vanessa-Mae in Alternative Classical Concert!

2009 update # 11 of February 21

Vanessa-Mae's violins
Vanessa-Mae's violins describes what violins Vanessa-Mae owns and uses for recording sessions and concerts, and at promotion and other performances. Backgrounds of each of her violins, as well as a few technical details are provided in these stories; photos of Vanessa-Mae with each of her violins are shown for illustrative reasons. Unfortunately, these photos were not available anymore since VMSPOS launched the newly designed site early January of 2009. These photos are now available again, thus restoring the story of Vanessa-Mae's violins to its original context. Vanessa-Mae owns 4 types of violins, and for each instrument 6 photos of Vanessa-Mae are used in nice poses to show that particular violin. Four photos of Vanessa-Mae with each of her violins are presented below - do visit Vanessa-Mae's violins to read the full story of each instrument.

Photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week
A new photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week is available now - scroll down on VMSPOS homepage, or via the link Photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week. A new photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week will be available each Friday evening or Saturday morning (CET). We will not notify about this specifically anymore.

Quote from Vanessa-Mae
A new quote from Vanessa-Mae is available now - scroll down this page below this frame. Read more interesting quotes of Vanessa-Mae via the link Quotes of Vanessa-Mae. The quote from Vanessa-Mae will be updated regularly, we will not make a specific notification of that anymore.

The team of the VMSPOS website
copyrights of the text © VMSPOS@ http://www.vanessa-mae.nu, The Netherlands, 2009

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2009 update # 10 of February 17

Photos of Vanessa-Mae added to gallery 4
We have added 4 photos of Vanessa-Mae during her Storm On World Tour concert in Munich to gallery 4 of our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae. these 4 photos are shown below - for description see gallery 4. These 4 photos are in our collection already several years, but were not available online before at VMSPOS.

2009 update # 9 of February 14

Four new videos uploaded on our Vanessa-Mae channel at YouTube.
We have uploaded 4 new videos of Vanessa-Mae that we digitalised from conventional video tape recently.

Vanessa-Mae at Blue Peter, BBC 1995
Vanessa-Mae played her new single Classical Gas Reggae during an episode of Blue Peter on BBC television, aired in 1996. The show hosts had a few words with Vanessa-Mae, and a brief overview of her life was shown before she performed Classical Gas Reggae. Below are 3 nice screen captures from the video. The overview showed the cute baby photo of Vanessa-Mae (mid capture), and a few scenes form Vanessa-Mae's ever first performance with full orchestra (capture on the right)

Vanessa-Mae at the Surprise Surprise show 1995
In 1995, Vanessa-Mae appeared at BBC's Surprise Surprise show where she played Toccata & Fugue and handed a special remembrance disc of her album The Violin Player to a young admirer, a girl with the ambition to become a famous violinist too. The 3 screen captures below come form the video. Th young girl, Joanne, appeared very shy towards her role model, Vanessa-Mae. Vanessa-Mae had fine short black dress with red flower motives and a nice crucifix on a tiny necklace. She had a curly hairstyle and was definitely very heavily made up - see the close-up of Vanessa-Mae on the left.

Vanessa-Mae with 3 young talents, 1996
In 1996, Vanessa-Mae appeared on Dutch television in a show to raise money for charity. For this show, youngsters were teamed up with one of their idols in a performance. Vanessa-Mae joined Rosanne, Jeroen and Timothy to support them in their performance of the allegro movement of a concert by Vivaldi, composed for 4 violins. For this occasion, Vanessa-Mae was in a wonderful long black dress, and she was wearing very heavy make-up, especially the smouldering dark eye definition and the glossy lipstick were spectacular - see capture to the left. The 2 other captures show all 4 playing and accepting the ovation from the audience. Perhaps, Rosanne, Jeroen and Timothy are still fans and admirers of Vanessa-Mae and may visit VMSPOS from time to time, and then find this video particularly interesting.

Vanessa-Mae at the Echo Awards in 1997
During autumn of 1997, Vanessa-Mae received the Echo Music Award for the Classical Music Without Frontiers. This video comes from the show as it was aired on German television. The capture on the left shows Vanessa-Mae arriving on stage wearing a fine silk red coat. In the middle, Vanessa-Mae is shown performing her music Storm - she took off the silk coat first. On the right, Vanessa-Mae speaks her thank you all words in German to the audience.

Comment by VMSPOS: The videos may not be online yet as processing by YouTube appears quite tedious. Please check back again later if a 'vidoe not available' message appears!

New photos of Vanessa-Mae.
We regularly receive new photos of Vanessa-Mae, and we always announce new acquisitions here on VMSPOS, However, below are shown 21 nice ones that we had no time to announce on our website any earlier. Short descriptions of these photos follow below. All these photos are not yet part of a gallery in our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae.

On the first line are: photos 1 and 2: These photos were made on April 6, 1995, when Vanessa-Mae announced her plans for her Red Hot Tour in the UK, scheduled for the summer; photo 3: Vanessa-Mae playing Toccata & Fugue at the World Music Awards that took place in Monaco on April 17 of 1997, where she was awarded as Best Selling Classical Artist. Vanessa-Mae was dressed in a short blue dress, two nice tiny necklaces with a precious stone and a crucifix pendant dangled on her chest, and Vanessa-Mae was heavily made up. Photos 4 & 5 are official EMI promotion portraits for the Storm On World Tour and her album The Original Four Seasons, respectively.

photo 1	photo 2	photo 3	photo 4	photo 5

On the second line below are: photo 6: Vanessa-Mae with her mother Pamela at their arrival at the 40th birthday celebration party of Sarah Ferguson on October 12 of 1999. Here, Vanessa-Mae wears a daring long dress which is slightly see-through from certain angles. She has short hair and funny make-up of bright shining blue eye-liner and shadow; photo 7: A close-up portrait of Vanessa-Mae, whose face is obviously very heavily made-up with covering crème, powder, lipstick, blush on her cheeks and lots of eye definition; photos 8 and 9: These 2 photos are official Sony portraits to promote Vanessa-Mae's debut recording Choreography for Sony Classical. Note that Vanessa-Mae's face is covered pale foundation crème that forms a striking contrast with the bright red glossy lipstick that was used excessively; photo 10 was made on October 22 of 2004 at the signing session that Vanessa-Mae acted in after her concert in the Royal Festival Hall - VMSPOS was there!! Do read our review of the concert and signing session with more photos at Royal Festival Hall concert.

photo 6	photo 7	photo 8	photo 9	photo 10

Photos 11 and 12: These two photos were made at the re-launch party for Gerrard Jewellers that was organised by Jade Jagger on September 19 of 2002 in the Tower Of London. Especially photo 12 is a nice portrait of Vanessa-Mae and Lionel showing that they do look good together as a happy couple. Vanessa-Mae wears an elegant long black dress, her face is just perfect, done with enough make-up to match Vanessa-Mae's celebrity status, but not overdone to make her look painted: no doubt a stylish and classy presentation for our Vanessa-Mae; photos 13 and 14 were made at Vanessa-Mae's charity concert in Geneva for the ICRC on May 13 of 2006. For this occasion, Vanessa-Mae was dressed quite casually in jeans and a short cotton vest that left her belly button exposed, yet Vanessa-Mae's face looked obviously as richly done with  luxuriant make-up; photo 15: Vanessa-Mae photographed at her arrival for a fund raising evening for Elephant Dunbar on June 27 of 2006. Vanessa-Mae's presentation is top class in an elegant bright red silk long dress and her face perfectly made up in which only the bright red lipstick and black eye definition are descriptive in her soberly pale complexioned visage.

photo 11	photo 12	photo 13	photo 14	photo 15

The 6 photos below all date from the past 1.5 year. Photos 16 and 17: Vanessa-Mae portrayed at the Cartier International Polo day on July 29 of 2007. She wears a beautiful and fine flowered blue silk dress that was designed by David Tang from the Shanghai Tang fashion stores. Notice that Vanessa-Mae mouth appears wider because of the richly used bright red glossy lipstick that forms a contrasting mark in her perfectly complexioned visage; photos 18 and 19 were made at her arrival when Vanessa-Mae attended the preview for VIP's of the summer exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts at June 4 of 2008. She looks casual in jeans and a fine silk shirt, yet with her face is perfectly made up, including lots of bright red lipstick; photos 20 and 21 were made the Cartier International Polo day of 2008, on July 27. Vanessa-Mae was accompanied by Lionel and was dressed in a beige long sleeved shirt and white skirt, her face was, of course, perfect and again she had richly used red lipstick.

photo 16	photo 17	photo 18
photo 19	photo 20	photo 21

Photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week
A new photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week is available now - scroll down on VMSPOS homepage, or via the link Photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week.

2009 update # 8 of February 7

February 5, 2009 Vanessa-Mae News: Vanessa-Mae and Lionel attended a charity event to raise money for the Morecambe Bay Children's Fund.
Vanessa-Mae and Lionel attended a charity party in the Electric Cinema to support fund raising for the  Morecambe Bay Children's Fund. The party was hosted by fashion icon David Tang. Among the attendees were also models Naomi Campbell and Laura Bailey. The photo below shows Vanessa-Mae sitting down together with her friend and life companion Lionel Catalan. Vanessa-Mae wears brown pair of tights, a long sleeved green T-shirts underneath a off white to light pink shirt with puffed short sleeves, she is on large knee high brown leather boots, and has her long black shining hair in free style. Vanessa-Mae's face is perfectly smooth and is made up with covering flawless crème, little eye definition, and an excessively use of bright red glossy lipstick results in a nice and eye catching presentation.

The Morecambe bay tragedy took place in 2004 when 23 Chinese cockle pickers were found dead. The gang master was caught and convicted for murder, and the bodies repatriated. However, 5,000 miles away in Fujian province, the tragedy has only deepened, and the impact on the children of the 23 victims is enormous. The Morecambe Bay Children's Fund aims to support the children and the families of the 23 victims. Morecambe bay is  a large sandy bay in the north west of England, reaching from Walney Island in the north to Fleetwood in the south, and the second largest bay in the UK after the Wash bay.

sources: The First Post, The Guardian, and Morecambe bay    

Photos of Vanessa-Mae Gallery 4.
A new gallery 4 with 11 photos of Vanessa-Mae at her Storm On World Tour concerts of 1997-1998 is now available. For an overview of all available galleries see our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae.

Photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week.
A new photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week is available now - scroll down this page below this frame, or via the link Photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week.

Quote of Vanessa-Mae.
A new quote of Vanessa-Mae is available now - scroll down this page below this frame. Read more interesting quotes of Vanessa-Mae via the link Quotes of Vanessa-Mae.

Video of Vanessa-Mae's appearance on the Asia Life show, BBC television November 2001.
Early November of 2001, Vanessa-Mae starred as guest at the BBC television show Asia Life where she performed White Bird and was then interviewed. She ended the show with another performance playing Destiny. Below are a few screen captures of the show.

The video  is available at our Youtube Vanessa-Mae channel in 3 parts - see also there for more nice videos of Vanessa-Mae appearances on television. At the Asia Life show, during White Bird and the interview Vanessa-Mae was dressed  in jeans and a sleeveless red T-shirt that let her belly button exposed, and a necklace dangled nicely in the V-neck of her shirt. Do notice on the first screen capture that Vanessa-Mae had a large decorating ring on her right hand middle finger. At the end of the show, Vanessa-Mae changed to a strapless bright red top, again with open belly button. Vanessa-Mae had her hair growing again and it was now just over her shoulders. Vanessa-Mae looked rather natural, wearing not too much make-up in which only the red lipstick was strikingly present.

2009 update # 7 of January 31

Vanessa-Mae News: The official website of Vanessa-Mae is currently redesigned and the new site will be launched soon.

The official website of Vanessa-Mae is currently under redesign and the new site will be available soon. The following message is shown right now on vanessa-mae.com:

'Welcome to Vanessa-Mae 2009:  new site coming soon'

Sony owns the vanessa-mae.com domain and Sony also takes care to maintain the site. The contact address info@merlinelite.com is to Vanessa-Mae's management at Merlin Elite

source: Vanessa-Mae

comments by VMSPOS: We know that Vanessa-Mae is working on a new album, currently. The new design of her official website that, is announced to be available soon,  might be a sign that we are at the eve of the release of new album. We are thrilled by the prospects for a new album already and will bring more news as soon as it is available to us - so keep an eye on this space to stay in touch with the latest!

comments by VMSPOS 2: The news about Vanessa-Mae's new website coming up soon was announced in the update of January 27 already, but we found it to be of such importance and priority that we mention it again on top of this page!

YouTube video channel for Vanessa-Mae, see Vanessa-Mae on YouTube
We are currently converting material that we have on video tape to digital format. We have made some of the videos available on YouTube, see: Vanessa-Mae on YouTube. The videos mentioned in the present Vanessa-Mae chronicle (chronicle # 1 of 2009) in which Vanessa-Mae wears her fantastic yellow Chinese style silk blouse are also available. A few captures from these videos are presented below. More videos will be up soon, so keep in touch with VMSPOS and Vanessa-Mae on YouTube.

Photos of Vanessa-Mae, gallery 3 available now.
A new gallery 3 with photos of Vanessa-Mae that were made during her Classical Tour in 1996 and 1997. For an overview of our complete collection of photo of Vanessa-Mae, please follow the link.

Photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week.
A new photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week is available now - scroll down this page below this frame, or via the link Photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week.

2009 update # 6 of January 27

Vanessa-Mae News: The official website of Vanessa-Mae is currently redesigned and the new site will be launched soon.

The official website of Vanessa-Mae is currently under redesign and the new site will be available soon. The following message is shown right now on vanessa-mae.com:

'Welcome to Vanessa-Mae 2009:  new site coming soon'

Sony owns the vanessa-mae.com domain and Sony also takes care to maintain the site. The contact address info@merlinelite.com is to Vanessa-Mae's management at Merlin Elite

source: Vanessa-Mae

comments by VMSPOS: We know that Vanessa-Mae is working on a new album, currently. The new design of her official website that, is announced to be available soon,  might be a sign that we are at the eve of the release of new album. We are thrilled by the prospects for a new album already and will bring more news as soon as it is available to us - so keep an eye on this space to stay in touch with the latest!

2009 update # 5 of January 25, 2009

Vanessa-Mae chronicle
We have a new Vanessa-Mae Chronicle available with the title 'Vanessa-Mae: A magical presentation, dressed in her Chinese style silk yellow blouse, always in combination with heavy make-up!'  Here are the first lines of the chronicle:

In the last update of VMSPOS - issue # 30 of December 21 - we mentioned that we recently found the photo of Vanessa-Mae depicted below that was made in Rome during early November 1997. The photo shows Vanessa-Mae in a particular nice and demure pose, looking into the camera while she comfortable leans on the back of a couch or chair. The photo is fantastic and a wonderful portrait of Vanessa-Mae. We possess many fantastic photos of Vanessa-Mae but we like this one particularly for a number of reasons. Vanessa-Mae looks extremely beautiful on this photo, and she was definitely gorgeous as a girl when she was aged around 19-20 years.

To continue reading and see more photos and screen captures from video material go to: Vanessa-Mae Chronicle.

Vanessa-Mae photo of the week
The new photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week is available at the bottom of this page and more information on this photo can be found at Photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week.

Chinese New Year
Chinese celebrations for the new year that starts on Monday, January 26, commence this weekend. We can expect that Vanessa-Mae will attend a gathering of people of Chinese descent, probable somewhere in London. As soon as we have any information, VMSPOS will report on that.

Interesting links
We all know that Vanessa-Mae studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Professor Felix Andrievsky. The RCM website has a page with biographical information about Professor Felix Andrievsky.

2009 update # 4 of January 18, 2009
 

Photo galleries
We started gallery 2 with photos of Vanessa-Mae that were made during the UK leg of her Red Hot Tour in the summer of 1995. For an overview of all galleries available see our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae. More galleries with many unique photos of Vanessa-Mae will be added soon: so keep an eye on this space! In total, our collection of photos of Vanessa-Mae holds more then 500 items!!

Photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week
The new photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week is available at the bottom of this page and more information on this photo can be found at Photo of Vanessa-Mae of the week.

2009 update # 3 of January 11, 2009
 

Vanessa-Mae photo galleries
We are currently re-organising the Vanessa-Mae photo galleries. Gallery 1 is now online again and contains our own photos that we made during the concerts of Vanessa-Mae that we attended over the years.

2009 update #2 of January 10, 2009

Video material of Vanessa-Mae
Over the years, we have recorded on video tape many appearances of Vanessa-Mae on television, or programs featuring a topic around Vanessa-Mae. We made several attempts to convert these videos to digital format but these always suffered severely from lost of quality and synchrony of audio with image. Fortunately, modern technology of hard disc recorders provide new tools to accomplish the conversion easily. Currently, we are busy converting all our video material with Vanessa-Mae to digital format. We made the first 6 videos of around 6-7 minutes each available via YouTube. The quality of the videos is not always very good but we thought that the material is interesting enough to make it available for all fans of Vanessa-Mae.

Vanessa-Mae appeared in a German talk show broadcasted on NDR television channel 3 in May 1998. Vanessa-Mae's appearance lasted about 20 minutes and that prompted us to divide the master video file in 3 parts. First, Vanessa-Mae delivered an electrifying performance of Storm in the studio before joining the other guests and host at the round table. The format of this talk show is that 2 hosts sitting at a round table talking to each of the guests individually, but with the others interacting in the conversation from time to time. Normally all guests are German, but Vanessa-Mae was interviewed via a instant translator delivering to her via an earphone. Unfortunately, German television practising voice over techniques with English speech and that makes the conversation with Vanessa-Mae difficult to understand for non German speaking viewers. In short, the conversation with Vanessa-Mae deals with her career, her upbringing, the pressure she feels for meeting the high expectations - especially knowing that the violin she received form her parents at age of 10 costed about £150,000 - and her experiences at the handover of Hong Kong to China and her performance at the Eurovision Song Contest earlier that month. Very touching and cute is the moment that 3 of the other guests - all 3 being famous German hairstylists - join the conversation when they were asked how they judge Vanessa-Mae's hair style and physical appearance. Vanessa-Mae received overwhelming compliments and she appeared quite shy with these making her face visible blush under all her make-up. Vanessa-Mae looked fantastic there indeed. She was dressed all silk in Chinese style, wearing red long pants, a bright yellow blouse and a long multi-coloured coats. Vanessa-Mae's face was gorgeous and spectacular, with face wear of heavily applied make-up of overall covering crème rendering a smooth and flawless complexion, her eyes defined with black sparkling liner underneath, black mascara and dark brown line of shadow fading to grey all up to her brows, and glossy pink lipstick. Vanessa-Mae looked fantastic and it is cute and remarkable that one could see that she blushed behind all that make-up. This scene is in part 2 of the interview. Vanessa-Mae's bright yellow silk blouse is a brilliant garment that suits her very well, and she used it during 1997 and 1998 frequently. We will elaborate on these occasions in our forthcoming Vanessa-Mae chronicle that will appear in about 2 weeks at VMSPOS. Please enjoy seeing Vanessa-Mae at the NDR talk show via the 3 links below. 

Vanessa-Mae playing Storm on NDR television - 1998

Vanessa-Mae interviewed by NDR television part 1 - 1998

Vanessa-Mae interviewed by NDR television part 2 - 1998

We have 3 other interesting video clips of Vanessa-Mae that all date from end 1997 and 1998.

Vanessa-Mae at Live & Kicking - December 13, 1997 shows Vanessa-Mae talking to a selected group of children in the studio and by telephone answering questions that they had for her. The present 'quote of Vanessa-Mae' at VMSPOS - see at the bottom of this page below this frame - stems for one of her answers when she was asked how she sounded when she first played the violin!

Vanessa-Mae playing Storm at Blue Peter - December 12, 1997 is an electrifying performance in the studio. Look at Vanessa-Mae's special wavy and waxy hairstyle.

Vanessa-Mae at the lottery show - January 1998, when she talked briefly about the Chinese new year celebrations and her forthcoming free open air concert on Leicester Square to promote her new classical album China Girl that she would give on that day. Mark in the close-ups Vanessa-Mae's face being made up to a perfectly flawless monochrome complexion with covering crème, hardly any additional eye definition and eye brows that were styled to thin black lines on top of her make-up. Vanessa-Mae's red dress is great and looked wonderful on her, especially in combination with the lipstick in matching red.

Recent collection acquisitions
We recently obtained 5 nice photos of Vanessa-Mae dating from June 9, 1995 when she delivered her hand palm for 'the wall of hands' at the Rock Circus on Piccadilly Circus in London.

In the near future, these photos will be part of our renewed photo galleries.

The team of the VMSPOS website
copyrights of the text © VMSPOS@ http://www.vanessa-mae.nu, The Netherlands, 2004-2009

2009 update # 1 of January 1, 2009

VMSPOS announcement.
We start a new design in 2009. We hope that all visitors of VMSPOS will be pleased with it, and that all will experience better readability: just surf around and you'll see how it works. Our ambition to be the most up-to-date source for information about Vanessa-Mae remains unchanged. However, from now on, updates will be provided at irregular intervals and not a t fixed dates, once every 2 weeks - so stay tuned at this space to catch up with the latest as soon as it happens. We plan to install feeds in the near future!

Before we forget: VMSPOS hopes that all you fans of Vanessa-Mae, and all other visitors to this site, had splendid Xmas days, and we wish you all a healthy, happy and successful 2009.

But most of all:
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU, OUR DEAREST AND BELOVED VANESSA-MAE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

New photos found on the internet.
We recently found the following series of fine photos of Vanessa-Mae at the internet. The series was made in 2007 by the famous celebrity photographer Rankin who used one of these in his project for the South bank Centre front row project to adorn the riverfront facade of the Royal Festival Hall that was due to reopen in June after a £91million refurbishment. Vanessa-Mae was photographed wearing a simple black jeans, a short black round-necked sleeveless T-shirt that left her belly button exposed, and black high heeled pointed boots. For creating contrasting effects with the all black outfit, Vanessa-Mae's face was made up only with a pale toned covering foundation crème and, except a small line of dark shadow, no additional colouring eye make-up was used, only an excessively used super sweet red lipstick served a striking mark in her impeccable complexion that expressed a serene flawlessness and perfection. The series of photos contains coloured and black and white items.

source: Icon International Photo Agency, South bank Centre front row project

VMSPOS biography used in a music blog for music freaks
We found out that music blog for music freaks our complete biography of Vanessa-Mae show their admiration for our remarkable violinist. They credited VMSPOS unequivocally by linking to VMSPOS biography of Vanessa-Mae.

source: music blog for music freaks

Melissa Walsh credits herself as Vanessa-Mae's personal make-up artist.
Melissa Walsh maintains a website to portray herself as make-up artist and designer who worked many famous artists and celebrities. She provides a list to serve as track record for her professional accomplishments. Her list credits her for being Vanessa-Mae's personal visagist at numerous occasions, see her lines to be as follows below:

VANESSA MAE (EMI CLASSICS) Personal Make-up Artist
Promotional Tour - Japan, China, Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok | Promotional Tour - Europe | Concert Tour - UK | Concert Tour - USA | Concert Tour - South America | Concert Tour - Germany and Austria | Concert Tour - Finland, East Germany and Spain | Echo Music Awards in Dresden | TV appearances | Press

source: Melissa Walsh

Comments by VMSPOS: Vanessa-Mae's make-up always looked and continues to look fantastic at all occasions she appears. We can be sure that whenever in time and on whatever occasions, Melissa Walsh  was responsible for doing Vanessa-Mae's face, that she sure did a great job with our Vanessa-Mae.

Website for Visible Chinese aims to be  is a guide to individuals at the forefront of the UK's Chinese Culture.
The website for  Visible Chinese aims to be a source for information for and about famous people in the UK that are form Chinese descent. The website devotes a page to Vanessa-Mae as well, see Vanessa-Mae at visible Chinese.

source: Visible Chinese

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