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| When she took part in the Wild Girls on Snow skiing event at Klosters this year, Nicholson had to insure her hands for several million pounds. “Even with a broken leg, I could still play the violin, so it’s my fingers I have to take care of,” she said. “Outside music, skiing is my great passion — though it gives my manager sleepless nights.” As well it might. The Singapore-born star, 27, rose swiftly to fame as a child prodigy, taking the world of classical music by storm with her ultramodern electric violin and head-turning good looks. Nicholson played with the London Philharmonia when she was 10 and her first album, The Violin Player, sold 1.4m copies. That and her concerts earned her £840,000 in 1995. Other hit records included The Classical Album 1 and Storm. Nicholson has sold 8m albums worldwide and her fortune from record sales and concerts has been put at £32m. She recently moved into a £2.5m five-bedroom town house in London’s Kensington with Lionel Catalan, 36, a ski instructor-turned wine importer. They are building a ski lodge in Val d’Isère in the French Alps — cue more sleepless nights for her manager. | ||||||||||||||||
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