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Amanda Lear (born 18 November 1939 is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist. She is the daughter of an Englishman and a Russian exile. Currently she lives in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès, France near Avignon in the south.

She studied art in Paris and in the 60s moved to London. During this period she got to know the most prominent designers, musicians and artists belonging to the artistic circles she frequented. Her preferences were predominantly for the Surrealist movement and for bodily expression, since she has also studied the art of mime. The meeting with Dali changed her life.

In the following 15 years she became the only woman friend, the muse and confidant of the great artist and his wife Gala. She lived in their house in Cadaquès (Spain) and accompanied them when they moved to New York and Paris in the winter. Although he had declared that a woman should never paint, Dali became her mentor, allowing her to work alongside him and teaching her all she knows about art and its techniques.
He took her to visit all the great museums of the

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Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear is mostly notable for the way she managed to keep her biography secret. Nobody knows for sure where and when she was born, and whether she was born female or male. Most likely she was born in 1939 in French-occupied Vietnam as Alain Tap and changed sex in 1963. She became Salvador Dali's favorite model and lover in 1965 at the same time that she started performing in London as a stripper and singer while attending art school. Those were the days of the "Swinging London", and she quickly became a fashion model and graced the covers of many magazines. She adopted the last name Lear after marrying a British man with that last name, but in 1966 she was dating Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. In 1973 she was engaged to Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music but then became David Bowie's lover. At the same time her love affair with Dali' continued. During the vogue for disco-music, Lear became a singer again, this time in Germany, debuting with I Am a Photograph (1977) which was composed and produced by Anthony Monn and contains the hits Blood and Honey and
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Amanda Lear

French singer, actress, television presenter

Musical artist

Amanda Lear (née Tap or Tapp;[1][2] born 18 June or 18 November 1939 or 1941[8] or 1946[9][10] or 1950[11] in Saigon[12] or Hong Kong[8] or Hanoi[13][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 Paco Rabanne, Ossie Clark and others. She met Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and remained his closest friend and muse for the next 18.5 years. Lear first came into the public eye as the cover model for Roxy Music's album For Your Pleasure in 1973. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, she was a million-album-selling disco star signed to Ariola Records, primarily impacting continental Europe and Scandinavia. Lear's first four albums earned her mainstream popularity, charting in the top 10 of European charts, including the best-selling S

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