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Born November 18, 1946, according to some sources 1939, Hong Kong, British Colony - French pop singer, actress and model.
The singer has a very specific contralto, which is why there is a version that Amanda was born a boy, and in childhood her name was Alain Tapp. According to this version, in 1963, the famous artist and patron of Amanda, Salvador Dali, paid for her sex reassignment surgery, which was performed in Casablanca (Morocco). This information has not been confirmed by either Amanda or any of her relatives. When asked if she was a man, Amanda usually answers: “I don't even pay attention to such an absurdity spread about me. I am a woman to the tops of my nails, and that suits me perfectly. ”Gruvemuvestart Amanda's father was French and her mother was Chinese. In the 1960s, Amanda was the muse of Salvador Dali, and then became a protege of David Bowie, who invited her to take up music. Bowie produced her first single. In 1977, Amanda Lear's first disco album was released (produced by Harold Faltermeyer). Lear sang mainly in English, although she was fluent in several European languages, which, in particular, ensured her stable popularity in Italy. In 1979, Lear married the French aristocrat Alain Philippe Malagnac d'Argan de Villele (the adopted son of the writer Roger Peyrefitte). From the mid-1980s, Lear began to pay less attention to music and focused on painting, inspired by her teacher Dali. On December 17, 2000, a fire broke out in her house, as a result of which her husband died, and most of the work was also destroyed. Amanda herself was in Italy at that time. Amanda Lear is the author of Dali through the Eyes of Amanda, a memoir about Salvador Dali, first published in France in the early 1980s, which vividly describes the bohemian characters of several European capitals of the 1960s, in particular Paris, Madrid and swinging London. In this city, young Lear met, made friends, and in some cases had fleeting intrigues and serious affairs with such figures of the sixties era as Brian Jones, Tara Brownie, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull.

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