Name	Vanessa Mae
Height	5' 3"
Naionality	singapore
Date of Birth	27 October 1978,
Place of Birth	Singapore
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Vanessa-Mae has received much acclaim and praise for her personal style and talents, but on the other hand has been the subject of controversy as well. Some critics have suggested that Vanessa-Mae's technical and musical abilities are in fact unspectacular and that she is merely a typical product of a music industry attempting to use sex appeal to sell commercialised classical music. Still others feel she is doing a disservice to classical music. She retorts that these critics are too traditional and élitist and because they are unable to appreciate her fusion of classical and pop music nor perform music themselves, they resort to vindictive cynicism, like a music critic of the International German DW-TV who called her a "fiddling Lolita". Some media draw comparisons between Vanessa-Mae and the Finnish classical and pop musician Linda Brava because of the use of daring outfits in combination with striking physical qualities on stage. For example, the British daily newspaper The Sun rated Linda above Vanessa in 1997, although, Brava has stated that she does not find herself similar to Mae, still less to be her competitor.