Amanda Lear
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Amanda Lear (née Tap or Tapp;[1][2] born 18 June or 18 November 1939 or 1941[9] or 1946[12][13] or 1950[14]) is a French singer, songwriter, painter, television presenter, actress and former model.[15]
She began her professional career as a fashion model in the mid-1960s and went on to model for
By the mid-1980s, Lear had become a leading media personality in Italy, hosting many popular TV shows. Although television took priority over musical activity,[16] she continued to record, experimenting with different genres and trying to revive her career by re-recording and remixing earlier hits to various levels of success. Lear has also developed a successful career in painting,[17] which she has long described as her biggest passion,[18] and regularly exhibited her works in galleries across Europe and beyond since the early 1980s.[19][20] She has also written a number of books, including My Life with Dalí.
Since the 1990s, her time has been divided among music, television, movies and painting. Despite regular album releases, she failed to achieve major success in the charts with her music, but her television career has remained stellar and she has hosted numerous primetime TV shows, mostly in Italy and France, occasionally making guest appearances in TV series. She has performed acting and dubbing roles in independent as well as in major film productions. In the late 2000s, Lear reinvented herself as a theatrical actress, performing in long-running stage plays in France. To date, she allegedly has sold over 27 million records worldwide.[21] Lear is also a widely recognized gay icon.[22][23]
Early life
Lear's origins are unclear, with the singer providing different information about her background and keeping her birth year a secret from her long-term husband Alain-Philippe.[24] Contested facts include her birth date and place, the gender she was assigned at birth, names and nationalities of her parents and the location of her upbringing. Most sources claim 18 June 1939,[25][26] including Bibliothèque nationale de France[27] or 18 November 1939 to be her birth date, including GEMA. Her birth year, though, has variously been given as 1941,[10] 1946[13] and 1950. During a 2010 interview with French newspaper Libération, Lear presented her identity card to the journalist, which read: "born 18 November 1950 in Saigon".[8] Georges Claude Guilbert claims, "Most biographers believe she was born in 1939, whatever she might declare to the contrary."[5]
As for her birthplace, Saigon and British Hong Kong seemed to be the most credible,
Lear allegedly grew up in the South of France and in Switzerland,[36] or between London and Paris,[8] or in Nice.[37][38] She learned English, German, Spanish and Italian in her teens and would use multilingualism in her professional life. The academic Georges Claude Guilbert claims, "Linguists observe that she has a French accent when she speaks (and sings) in English".[5]
The Guardian, on 23 December 2000, summarized the information relating to these aspects of Lear's life as follows:[10]
Lear's background remains a mystery. She has variously let it be known that her mother was English or French or Vietnamese or Chinese, and that her father was English, Russian, French or Indonesian. She may have been born in Hanoi in 1939, or Hong Kong in either 1941 or 1946. Once she said she was from Transylvania. And to this day, it is a matter of conjecture as to whether she was born a boy or a girl.
Career
1965–1974: Modelling and the Swinging London period

Amanda Lear was introduced to the eccentric Spanish surrealist painter
In 1965, Lear moved to London and began working as a cabaret artist. A July 1965 newspaper report about a robbery at her home described her as the strip-tease artist "Amanda Tapp, professionally known as Peki d'Oslo".[49] An American newspaper described her in October 1965 as "one of the leading stripping stars on the European cabaret circuit".[50]
On 11 December 1965 in the UK, she married Morgan Paul Lear, an architecture student,
In 1971, Lear modelled for a special Christmas issue of the French edition of
1974–1983: The disco period with Ariola Records
In 1974, disillusioned by a shallow and conservative fashion industry and encouraged by her boyfriend Bowie,

In 1978, Lear continued her line of disco hits with
In late 1978, at a fashionable Parisian discothèque Le Palace, a French equivalent of Studio 54, Amanda Lear met French aristocrat Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villèle, the former lover and then adopted son of diplomat and controversial novelist Roger Peyrefitte.[84]
She married him on 13 March 1979, while on a trip to the United States. The marriage lasted 21 years, until Malagnac's death on 16 December 2000, when he was killed by smoke in a fire at their farmhouse in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès.[85] He died just six weeks after Roger Peyrefitte.
This marriage is not official for the French state. Dalí and his wife Gala both strongly disapproved of the relationship and attempted to persuade Lear to have the marriage annulled. As a consequence of this, and also the time taken up by Lear's successful career in music and television, she and her mentor began drifting apart. They sporadically kept in touch via letters and telephone through the early and mid-1980s, especially after Gala's death in 1982. Lear visited Dalí one last time at Púbol, Spain, a few years before the painter died.
In the early '80s, she had her first art exhibition in Paris.[86] According to Lear, it happened in 1979.[40]
In late 1979, Lear recorded Diamonds for Breakfast, which was her commercial breakthrough in the Scandinavian market (top 10 in both Sweden and Norway[87]), producing hits "Fabulous (Lover, Love Me)" and "Diamonds", plus regional single releases "Japan", "When" and the autoerotic "Ho fatto l'amore con me". The album abandoned the Munich disco sound with its lush strings and brass arrangements in favour of an electronic new wave rock style. Lear spent most of 1980 on European promotional tours for the album and its many accompanying single releases, from Greece to Finland. She also made her first visit to Japan, where both the single "Queen of Chinatown" and the Sweet Revenge album had charted. Two non-album singles followed the Diamonds for Breakfast album in late 1980: a pop cover of Eric "Monty" Morris's early ska hit "Solomon Gundie" and the chanson-esque "Le Chat de gouttière", the latter with both music and lyrics written by Lear and recorded for francophone markets.
The Lear/Monn album success saga neared its end in 1981 when Lear had become increasingly uncomfortable with the expectations and pressures of the music business in general and her own record label in particular. At the artistic and commercial peak of her international career, but with the so-called "
The double A-side single "Love Your Body"/"Darkness and Light", released in the spring of 1983, was produced by Monn's sound engineer Peter Lüdemann rather than Monn. These were Lear's final Munich recordings for Ariola and her final promotional appearance on West Germany's most important music TV show at the time, Musikladen, in June 1983. Lear's international career momentum was slowing and effectively ended in December 1983 with her sixth and final Ariola album under contractual obligation. Tam-Tam, a collaboration with Italian composers and producers, was a modern and minimalist early 1980s synthpop album with a soundscape dominated by Roland TR-808 drum machines and sequencer-programmed synthesizers. Lear again wrote all the English lyrics for the album. Although she performed some of the songs from the album on the popular Italian TV show Premiatissima, she did not promote Tam-Tam in West Germany or any other parts of Europe and neither did the record company. As a consequence, Tam-Tam passed by unnoticed by the international record-buying public.
1983–1999: Television career and comeback attempts
Lear launched a very successful and lucrative career as a TV presenter in Italy, thanks to the future prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, soon becoming a household name in that country. She hosted many successful TV shows there, including Premiatissima and W le donne (the latter adapted in France as Cherchez la femme), where she frequently promoted her music. The singer recorded a string of dance singles for various European labels: "Assassino" and "Ritmo Salsa" in 1984, followed by "No Credit Card" and "Women" in 1985. A mini album titled A L, with four covers of classic songs, including Marilyn Monroe's "Bye Bye Baby" and "As Time Goes By" from the film Casablanca, was recorded for Five Records and released in 1985. Her music career, however, had waned by that point, and she had failed to find chart success with her recordings at that time. In late 1985, Lear appeared in a series of TV spots for Fiat. She had written her first book, the autobiography My Life with Dalí, about her long relationship with the famous painter. Originally published in French, the book was translated into other languages in the second half of the 1980s.
After several years as a TV entertainer in Italy on

A series of re-recordings of her old hits appeared on the market in the late 1980s, starting with a synthpop take of the biggest hit, "Follow Me", in 1987. The following year, Italian band
Lear continued to record more dancefloor-friendly repertoire in the 1990s, starting with the 1992 song "Fantasy", which became a hit in European clubs.
Lear released Back in Your Arms in Spring 1998, an album consisting of re-recordings of her own 1970s disco hits and remixed versions of tracks from the 1995 album Alter Ego. The album failed to make much impact on the market, but the re-recordings have been featured on many mid-price compilations in Europe. Back in Your Arms was re-released with a slightly different track list and title, and a remix of "Blood and Honey" was released as the single. Her next acting and television ventures were the French movie Bimboland, in which she starred alongside Gérard Depardieu, and an Italian makeover TV show Il brutto anatroccolo. The theme tune to the latter was "Nuda", a cover version of Melina Mercouri's 1960 recording "Never on Sunday", which Lear recorded but never released commercially. On the set of Il brutto anatroccolo Lear met model and actor Manuel Casella [it], some 30 years her junior. Lear and Casella began a long-term relationship and were featured prominently in the tabloid press in France and Italy, before splitting in 2008.[99]
2000–present: Recent career
Lear contributed vocals for a cover of Giorgio Moroder's 1970s hit "From Here to Eternity", recorded in 2000 with Eric D. Clark. In the morning of 16 December 2000, a fire broke out in Lear's house in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès, killing her husband Alain-Philippe, and his friend Didier Dieufis.[100] At the time of the accident, Lear was in Milan, where she was hosting a TV show. The fire left the house in ruins, destroying personal memorabilia and a number of Dalí's paintings.[101][102] As a result of the accident, she fell into depression,[103] but soon returned to work and put on an art exhibition titled Not a. Lear.[104] At the end of 2001, she returned with the album Heart, dedicated to the late husband. The album offered a cover of "Love Boat", the title song from the 1970s TV series of the same name, and the club-friendly track "I Just Wanna Dance Again", both issued as singles featuring remixes by some prominent names in the world of French dance music, such as Laurent Wolf and Junior Vasquez.
In 2002, Lear starred in Le Défi,
In 2009, Lear accepted the part of Cécile in the comedy Panique au ministère, which debuted at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris. The show turned out to be a huge success and was taken on tour.[109] The same year, she dubbed the voice of Fish in the German movie Lacoma directed by Christopher Roth.[25] Her next album Brief Encounters, was released in autumn 2009, preceded by the single "Someone Else's Eyes", a duet with Italian singer-producer Deadstar. The following month, Lear released the autobiography Je ne suis pas celle que vous croyez... (I am not who you think...) and the EP Brand New Love Affair. The title song was released as the lead single, accompanied by an animated music video. Brief Encounters was partly re-recorded and remixed and then released in Acoustique and Reloaded versions. Boy George remixed "Someone Else's Eyes" in 2010. In April 2011, Lear released the single "Chinese Walk", and joined the judging panel of the Italian TV show Ciak... si canta! on Rai 1. She dubbed the voice of Janet the Lioness in the French version of Zookeeper. In September, Lear returned to theatre for the lead role in Lady Oscar, an adaptation of Claude Magnier's 1958 play Oscar, at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris. The play was another success[110] and was taken on tour.[111]
Her album I Don't Like Disco was released in January 2012, and the single "La Bête et la Belle" sparked controversy due to its erotic imagery.[112][113] In September 2012, Lear appeared as a catwalk model on Jean Paul Gaultier's fashion show in Paris[114][115] and in 2013 started playing the leading part in the play Divina at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris. In Spring 2014, she released My Happiness, a tribute album with covers of Elvis Presley's songs, promoted by the single and video "Suspicious Minds". In 2015, she recorded the duet "Mai più" with Italian singer Gianluca De Rubertis [it] for his album L'universo elegante. The pair then teamed for the ballad "Prima del tuo cuore" for Lear's next album Let Me Entertain You, released in May 2016. Her play La Candidate, a sequel to Panique au ministère, opened in 2016 at the Théâtre de la Michodière[116] and was subsequently taken on tour across France. At the time of an interview in the Italian program Domenica in on 16 October 2016, Lear had planned a retirement immediately after completing the La Candidate tour in Spring 2017,[117][118] however, she had to cancel a number of final dates due to health issues.[119] In 2018, she worked on the dubbing for French and Italian versions of Incredibles 2, hosted the TV show Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ? on Cielo,[120][121] and released another book, Délires.[122] In 2019, Lear joined the judging panel of the Italian TV show Sanremo Young on Rai 1. In 2020, Lear starred in Si Muore Solo Da Vivi directed by Alberto Rizzi and in Miss directed by Ruben Alves.[123][124] In 2021, she appears in TV drama Camping Paradis [fr] in France.[125] In September, Lear returned to theatre to play Joan Crawford in Qu'est-il arrivé à Bette Davis et Joan Crawford ? [fr], a play about Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in the war they fought on the set of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? The play was directed by Michel Fau at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris.[126][127][128][129][130]
She released a new album called Tuberose in 2021.
She is portrayed by Andreja Pejić in the film Dalíland, released in 2023.[131]
A 2025 HBO documentary compares and contrasts the life stories of April Ashley and Amanda Lear[132] and includes a new interview with Lear conducted by the director Zackary Drucker. The interview focusses on Lear's own version of her personal history and gender identity, and how it contrasts with the accounts of her contemporaries.[133] Provisionally titled April & Amanda, the film screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2025 as Enigma.[134]
Gender identity
Allegations that Lear was a drag queen or intersex circulated from the beginning of Lear's modelling and singing careers.[135] Her alleged transgender background was commented on by Salvador Dalí himself[136] and remarked upon in the media and in the biographies of those who knew Lear earlier in her life, including Dalí;[137][138] author Ian Gibson devoted an entire chapter to Lear in his biography of Dalí.[29]
Some sources say that Dalí sponsored Lear's
In 1978, Lear posed nude for Playboy.[9]
Despite Lear denying transgender allegations on numerous occasions and explaining they were part of a strategy to draw public attention,[144] the allegations continued to persist. In 1976, Lear stated that it was "a crazy idea from some journalist"[34] and later claimed that the rumour had been started by Dalí or even herself.[145][146]
However, French,[147] British and Italian[148][149] newspapers and magazines in the 1960s and 1970s and more recently in 2008[150] and 2011[151] and a 2016 article in La Stampa included passport details and an alleged reproduction of a copy of Lear's birth certificate, which states that she was given the name Alain Maurice Louis René Tap on 18 June 1939 in Saigon.[139] The article included an alleged picture of Lear before her alleged transition.[139]
Discography
- Studio albums and main compilations
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Filmography
- Ne jouez pas avec les Martiens (1967)
- Wonderwall (1968)
- Follie di notte (1978)
- Loggerheads (1978)
- Grottenolm (1985)
- L'amour est à réinventer (1997)
- Bimboland (1998)
- La Défi (2002)
- Oliviero Rising (2007)
- Bloody Flowers (2008)
- 8th Wonderland (2010)
- Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
- Metti una notte (2017)
- Miss (2020)
- Si muore solo da vivi (2020)
- Maison de retraite 2 (2024)
- To Live, To Die, To Live Again(Vivre, mourir, renaître) (2024)
- Enigma (2025, biographical documentary)[152]
Theater
- 2009-2011 : Panique au ministère written by Jean Franco & Guillaume Mélanie, directed by Raymond Acquaviva
- 2011-2013 : Lady Oscar written by Guillaume Mélanie, directed by Éric Civanyan
- 2013-2014 : Divina written by Jean Robert-Charrier, directed by Nicolas Briançon
- 2016-2017 : La Candidate written by Jean Franco & Guillaume Mélanie, directed by Raymond Acquaviva
- 2021-2022 : Qu’est-il arrivé à Bette Davis et Joan Crawford ? written by Jean Marboeuf, directed by Michel Fau
- 2024 : The Scientific Cardplayer written by Jean Franco & Guillaume Mélanie, directed by Raymond Acquaviva
Books
- 1984 : Lear, Amanda (1984). OCLC 461749441. (autobiography)
- 1987 : Lear, A (1987). L'Immortelle (in French). Paris: OCLC 461837831. (novel)
- 1994 : Lear, A (1994). OCLC 807550048. (reprint of Le Dalí d'Amanda, with a foreword by Paco Rabanne)
- 2004 : Lear, A (2004). Mon Dalí (in French). Neuilly-sur-Seine: Éditions Michel Lafon. OCLC 56012321. (reprint of Le Dalí d'Amanda)
- 2006 : Lear, A; Galerie Claudius (2006). Between dream and reality. Norderstedt: OCLC 180929230. (collected arts)
- 2009 : Lear, A (2009). Je ne suis pas du tout celle que vous croyez… (in French). Paris: OCLC 468417957. (autobiography)
- 2018 : Lear, A; Dieudonné, Frédéric (2018). Délires (in French). Paris: OCLC 1078361743. (collection of meditations and anecdotes)
In popular culture
- Lear was romantically linked to Brian Jones, which resulted in the ironic Rolling Stones track "Miss Amanda Jones" on the 1967 album Between the Buttons.[153]
- Character Patsy Stone from the UK TV series Absolutely Fabulous was partly modeled on Amanda Lear.[154][155]
- Italian band Baustelle dedicated their 2016 song "Amanda Lear" to her.[156]
- In the biographical film Dalíland, Amanda Lear is played by the model and actress Andreja Pejić.[157][158][159][160][161]
- In 2023 Amanda Lear's hit "Follow Me" plays as soundtrack for Chanel's Coco Mademoiselle commercial.
Notes
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External links
- Official website
- Official art website (in Italian)
- Official channel at YouTube
- Official VEVO channel at YouTube
- Official channel at Dailymotion