English Original
Vanessa-Mae has been called a Paganini in hot pants. Or, to put it another way: she dresses to kill, but you ain't seen nothing yet till you see her pick up a violin.
Half Thai and half Chinese, Vanessa-Mae Vanakom Nicholson was born in Singapore and grew up in London. She took up the violin at the age of five. By the time she was eleven, the Director of the Royal College of Music was calling her a "true child prodigy--like Mozart and Mendelssohn."
She was a rising star in the world of classical music, but Vanessa-Mae also had some ideas of her own about music. As a teenager, she began experimenting with her talent, and released The Violin Player, which she called a "techno-acoustic fusion" album. It featured both traditional and electric violin, hit the U.K. pop charts, and went multi-platinum.
Some critics objected to the video of Vanessa-Mae playing a techno-pop version of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in a wet T-shirt, and scratched their heads when they heard that she would be playing a violin solo on Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope album. Vanessa-Mae responded: "When you're brave enough to do something new, people are always threatened by it."
Few audiences that see Vanessa-Mae give a live performance have any objections. More often they are left awestruck, roaring for an encore.
中文翻译
陈美曾被称为穿热裤的帕格尼尼。或者换种说法：她穿着火辣，但直到她拿起小提琴，你才知道她的厉害。
一半泰国血统，一半华人血统，陈美出生于新加坡，在伦敦长大。她自五岁起开始习琴。到了十一岁时，英国皇家音乐院的院长已经称她为「真正的神童——就像莫扎特与门德尔松一样。」
她在古典音乐界声誉日隆，但陈美对于音乐有自己的一套想法。青少年时她开始试验自己的才华，并推出《小提琴玩家》专辑，她称之为「科技声效融合」风格。专辑融合了传统小提琴与电子小提琴，登上英国流行音乐排行榜，并获得了多张白金唱片认证。
一些乐评家对陈美穿着湿T恤演奏巴哈《触技与赋格》的科技流行版视频感到不以为然，又听说她将在珍妮·杰克逊的《华丽的冒险》专辑中表演小提琴独奏时，也搔首表示不解。陈美回应道：「当你有足够勇气去尝试新事物时，人们总是倍感威胁。」
看过陈美现场演奏的听众很少会不以为然。他们大多是感到震慑，大声叫着安可。