Amanda Lear, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Amanda Lear

French singer, actress, television presenter, painter, ex-lyricist, ex-model

Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1939

Place of Birth: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Profession: actor, singer, lyricist, television presenter, painter, model, film actor

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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About Amanda Lear

  • Amanda Lear (née Tap or Tapp) is a French singer, lyricist, painter, television presenter, actress and former model. Lear studied art in Paris and at Saint Martin's School of Art in London.
  • She began her professional career as a fashion model in the mid-1960s and went on to model for Paco Rabanne and Ossie Clark, among others.
  • She met the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and would remain his closest friend and muse for the next 15 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 queen, mainly in Continental Europe and Scandinavia, signed to Ariola Records.
  • Lear's first four albums earned her mainstream popularity, charting in the top 10 of European charts, including the best-selling Sweet Revenge (1978).
  • Her biggest hits included "Blood and Honey", "Tomorrow", "Queen of Chinatown", "Follow Me", "Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me)", "The Sphinx" and "Fashion Pack". By the mid-1980s, Lear had positioned herself as one of the leading media personalities in Italy where she hosted many popular TV shows.
  • Although television took priority over musical activity, she continued to record, experimenting with different genres and trying to revive her career by re-recording and re-mixing earlier hits to various levels of success.
  • Lear has also developed a successful career in painting, which she has long described as her biggest passion, and regularly exhibited her works in galleries across Europe and beyond since the early 1980s.
  • She has also written a number of autobiographies, including My Life with Dalí. Since the 1990s, her time has been divided between music, television, movies and painting.
  • Despite regular album releases, she failed to achieve major success in charts with her music.
  • However, her television career has remained stellar and she has hosted numerous prime time TV shows, mostly in Italy and France, occasionally making guest appearances in TV series.
  • She has also performed acting and dubbing roles in independent as well as major film productions.
  • In the late 2000s, Lear would reinvent herself as a theatrical actress, performing in long-running stage plays in France.
  • To date, she allegedly has sold over 27 million records worldwide.
  • Lear is also a widely recognized gay icon.

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