在所有陳美的演奏的曲子裏，我也不知道為什麽特別喜歡這一曲，是這像火一樣燃燒的紅色激情？
是的， 喜歡這火一樣的紅色激情。。。
英文名：Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson
姓名：陳美
國籍：英國
出生地：新加坡(4歲移居倫敦)
生日：1978.10.27
最早的音樂課程：1982年(3歲)的鋼琴課
最早的小提琴課程：1984年(5歲)
首度與樂團合作的音樂會：1989年(10歲)與愛樂管弦樂團
首度國際巡回：1991年與倫敦莫劄特合奏團的演出
1989年，10歲的陳美在倫敦與愛樂樂團合作舉辦演奏會，在英 國引起震動。BBC一台稱其為"世界上最優秀的年輕小提琴家"。
1991年，與莫劄特合奏團合作舉辦了她第一次世界巡演。
1990年~1992年，完成三次錄音錄製貝多芬、柴科夫斯基和莫劄特的小提琴協奏曲以及海飛茲、帕格尼尼等大師的小提琴作品。
1995年2月EMI推出專輯《Violin Player》，在全球25個國家極為暢銷。
1995年11月陳美為專輯《Violin Player》(小提琴玩家)前來上海宣傳。
1995年6月30日，陳美在英國倫敦皇家阿爾波特音樂廳(Royal Albert Hall)舉辦"紅色激情之旅"(Red Hot Tour)音樂會。
1996年推出古典專輯《Classical Album 1》，打破古典藝人音樂專輯銷售最快紀錄：兩周內售出50萬張。
入選《人物》雜誌"全球50位最美麗人物"
1997年，在古典及流行領域均獲獎：世界音樂大獎"最佳銷量古典藝人"(World Music Award)、"Nordoff Robbins Sliver Clef"國際大獎。
英國查爾斯王子、愛德華王子出席陳美在倫敦為皇室成員舉辦的音樂會。此前，愛德華王子曾以普通觀眾的身份專程前往阿爾波特音樂廳觀看她的演出。
1996年--1997年在33個國家，250個城市舉辦巡回演出
舉辦多場戶外音樂會包括：紐約時代廣場戶外音樂會(站在計程車頂演奏)，為此封鎖交通；觀眾達10萬多人的"7國首腦會議音樂會"(G7 Summit Conference Concert)，史無前例唯一獲準在法國巴黎埃菲爾鐵塔前舉辦戶外音樂會，吸引眾多觀眾。
1997年6月30日，作為唯一外國藝人受邀參加由特區官方舉辦的"香港回歸音樂會"。在音樂會上演奏自己特別創作的"快樂穀序曲"。
1997年推出第二張古典專輯《China Girl》。專輯收錄了中國著名樂曲"梁祝"及為"97香港回歸"特別創作的"快樂穀序曲"。
陳美"阿爾波特音樂會實況"在美國迪斯尼(Disney)頻率播出打破美國現場音樂會收視率紀錄。
1997年推出流行專輯《STORM》(流行風暴)
1997年11月，應邀參加上海國際音樂節開幕式演出，並被譽為當晚演出最精彩藝人。
1998年1月，在倫敦唐人街參加當地華人社團慶祝農曆新年活動：在雷賽斯特廣場(Leicester Square)舉辦戶外演出，吸引近萬名觀眾.
The beautiful young violinist Vanessa-Mae was just in her mid-teens when she shattered the mold of the classical virtuoso with the release of her first fusion album The Violin Player, forging a new style that has made her a multi-million-selling worldwide phenomenon and the breakthrough artist who virtually defined the fusion of classical and pop that became known as crossover. At the age of 25, she has been a superstar for a decade. Now she makes her Sony Classical debut and marks a new musical direction with the release of Choreography, a highly original album that celebrates dance rhythms from around the world. Original pieces and fresh arrangements have been created for the album by the Oscar-winning Vangelis, Bill Whelan of Riverdance, Indian film composer A.R. Rahman (the musical Bombay Dreams) and Tolga Kashif (The Queen Symphony), amongst others. Choreography will be released internationally in September 2004 and in the U.S. in early 2005.
Vanessa-Mae brings to this project the experience of a classical violin prodigy who was well into a major international concert career when she was barely in her teens. The success of The Violin Player justified a bold creative gamble she wanted to take - a new synthesis of classical and pop sounds that would tap a broad and enthusiastic international audience as surely as it would raise the hackles of tradition-bound classical critics. The albums that followed confirmed this success - worldwide sales have topped 8 million units so far, earning more than 40 international platinum awards - making her a superstar for whom there seem to be no musical limits. Vanessa-Mae has collaborated with such pop legends as Janet Jackson and Prince, performed on the soundtrack of the Disney animated feature Mulan, played Bach for the British Royal Family on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, fiddled as she modeled a wedding dress on the runway of a Jean-Paul Gualtier fashion show in Paris, and reached out to the children of the South African township of Soweto, the first international artist to be invited to its music school. Her stunning presence only adds to her appeal. People magazine has voted Vanessa-Mae one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World," and FHM named her one of "The World's 100 Most Beautiful Women."
Born in Singapore on October 27, 1978 - she shares a birthday with the first international violin superstar, Niccolò Paganini - Vanessa-Mae moved to London with her family when she was four, began classical violin studies the following year and made her professional debut on the international stage at the 1988 Schleswig-Holstein Festival in 1988, the same year she made her concerto debut in the U.K. with London's Philharmonia Orchestra. Her classical career was a prodigy's dream - the youngest violinist ever to record the Tchaikovsky and Beethoven violin concertos, a world tour with the London Mozart Players during the Mozart bicentennial year, great reviews from international critics - and she had three classical albums to her credit when she was only 13 years old. It was her interest in new arrangements for violin of her favorite classical melodies that led Vanessa-Mae to seek more than the traditional repertoire could offer. The result of that quest was The Violin Player and the string of successful crossover discs that followed.
An explosive live performer, Vanessa-Mae stars in an intensive touring program that has taken her around the world several times over. She has visited over 50 countries, including performances in many spectacular venues such as the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, the Acropolis in Athens, an outdoor pyrotechnic extravaganza in Dubai, and stadiums in Beijing and Shanghai. Beyond the bounds of typical concert venues, Vanessa-Mae is constantly bringing music to new places and new people. She was the first foreign performer invited to play the U.S. national anthem at Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park in Chicago. She did the same at the World Alpine Ski Championships in Vail, Colorado, where she performed two concerts, one of classical and the other of fusion music. She has performed at the Ajax arena in Amsterdam to a football crowd numbering 60,000, provided the climax to the International Go-Karting championships in Helsinki, and performed at the opening race of the F1 Grand Prix season in Melbourne. She also performed as featured artist at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Para Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Vanessa-Mae also has appeared in many rock festivals the world over, including shows with Michael Jackson, one of which saw her carried aloft by the ecstatic crowd at the end of her performance. She made her U.S. debut in Times Square, when she hopped spontaneously onto a passing yellow taxi, in the climax to a live performance seen all over the world. She gave the first-ever concert on the famed frozen lake of St. Moritz in Switzerland, making a spectacular entrance by delta-gliding down to the stage from a 2400m mountain. She performed exclusively for the 26 heads of Asian-European governments as well as Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the Royal Family at the official closing of the asem2 Conference at Buckingham Palace.
Vanessa-Mae was the only foreign artist invited by the Chinese to perform at the pivotal moment of Reunification of Hong Kong to China at midnight. She also opened the first ever Classical Brit Awards as well as the MTV Asia Awards. She is passionately involved in charity work as well. Through her close links with the Red Cross, Vanessa-Mae has visited the organization's field units in Kenya and Cambodia, participated in one of its TV ad campaigns and given several fund-raising performances.
The worldwide embrace of Vanessa-Mae is a compliment returned in her new Sony Classical album Choreography. The music draws its inspiration from the rhythms and pulses of dance cultures from around the world - the Argentinean tango, the Spanish bolero, the tribal dances of Africa, the complex allure of Indian music - and creates a new challenge for the remarkable young beauty who changed forever the way audiences hear the violin.
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