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4 Vanessa-Mae
4 陳美
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 anything yet till you see her pick up a violin.
陳美曾被稱為穿熱褲的帕格尼尼，或者換種說法：她穿著火辣，但直到她拿起小提琴，你才知道她的厲害。
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".
一半泰國血統，一半華人血統，陳美出生于新加坡，在倫敦長大。她自五歲起開始學琴。到十一歲時, 英國皇家音樂學院的院長已經稱她為"真正的神童--就像莫扎特與孟德爾頌一樣"。
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 multiplatinum.
她在古典音樂界聲譽日隆，但陳美對于音樂有自己的一套想法。青少年時她開始試驗自己的才華，并推出《小提琴玩家》--她稱之為計算機合成音樂與聽覺特效融和的專輯，其中以傳統小提琴與電子小提琴結合為特色，登上英國流行音樂排行榜，并奪得數張白金唱片。
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."
一些樂評家對于陳美穿著一件濕T恤演奏計算機合成音樂流行版的巴哈《觸技與賦格》感到十分不以為然，又聽說她會在珍娜杰克森的《華麗的冒險》專輯中表演一首小提琴獨奏時，也表示無法認同。陳美的反應是："當你有足夠勇氣去嘗試新事物時，人們總是倍感威脅。"
Few audiences that see Vanessa-Mae give alive performance have any objections. Most often they are left awestruck, roaring for an encore.
看過陳美現場演奏的聽眾很少人會否認陳美的表演。他們大多是感到震懾，大聲叫著"再來一個"。
