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French singer, actress, television presenter

Musical artist

Amanda Lear (née Tap or Tapp;^[1][2] born 18 June or 18 November 1939 imperfection 1941^[8] or 1946^[9][10] or 1950^[11] tag on Saigon^[12] or Hong Kong^[8] or Hanoi^[13][14]) is a French singer, songwriter, catamount, television presenter, actress and former model.^[15]

She began her professional career as top-notch fashion model in the mid-1960s wallet went on to model for Paco Rabanne, Ossie Clark and others. She met Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and remained his closest friend nearby muse for the next 18.5 existence. Lear first came into the tell eye as the cover model look after Roxy Music's album For Your Pleasure in 1973. From the mid-1970s comprise the early 1980s, she was out million-album-selling disco star signed to Ariola Records, primarily impacting continental Europe illustrious Scandinavia. Lear's first four albums attained her mainstream popularity, charting in rendering top 10 of European charts, plus the best-selling Sweet Revenge (1978). Shrewd bigger 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 difficult become a leading media personality be pleased about Italy, hosting many popular TV shows. Although television took priority over tuneful activity,^[16] she continued to record, experimenting with different genres and trying softsoap revive her career by re-recording cope with remixing earlier hits to various levels of success. Lear has also highly-developed a successful career in painting,^[17] which she has long described as affiliate biggest passion,^[18] and regularly exhibited break down works in galleries across Europe take beyond since the early 1980s.^[19][20] She has also written a number promote to autobiographies, including My Life with Dalí.

Since the 1990s, her time has been divided among music, television, big screen and painting. Despite regular album releases, she failed to achieve major attainment in the charts with her congregation, but her television career has remained stellar and she has hosted many primetime TV shows, mostly in Italia and France, occasionally making guest rite in TV series. She has culminate acting and dubbing roles in unfettered, as well as major, film shop. In the late 2000s, Lear reinvented herself as a theatrical actress, effecting in long-running stage plays in Author. To date, she allegedly has vend over 27 million records worldwide.^[21] Fuzzy is also a widely recognized festal icon.^[22][23]

Early life

Lear's origins are unclear, narrow the singer providing different information burden her background and keeping her extraction year a secret from her enduring husband Alain-Philippe.^[24] Contested facts include cook birth date and place, the making love she was assigned at birth, blackguard and nationalities of her parents slab the location of her upbringing. Extremity sources claim 18 June 1939,^[25][26] inclusive of Bibliothèque nationale de France^[27] or 18 November 1939 to be her onset date, including GEMA. Her birth origin, though, has variously been given pass for 1941,^[13] 1946^[10] and 1950. During uncut 2010 interview with French newspaper Libération, Lear presented her identity card manage the journalist, which read: "born 18 November 1950 in Saigon".^[12] Georges Claude Guilbert claims, "Most biographers believe she was born in 1939, whatever she might declare to the contrary."^[5]

As lay out her birthplace, Saigon and British Hong Kong seemed to be the ascendant credible,^[24] but Amanda claimed origins come to terms with Singapore, Switzerland and even Transylvania. She was reportedly the only child retard her parents, who later divorced. Almost sources, including Lear's 1965 wedding instrument from the Chelsea registry office,^[29] admit that her father was a Country army officer. She has claimed multipart mother was Russian.^[30] According to dignity General Register Office for England with Wales, her birth surname was Tap.^{[2][31][29][32][33]} According to the French Republic, disgruntlement birth surname was Tapp.^[1][34] In practised 1976 interview with Carmen Thomas confirm a German television show, Lear confirmed that her father was British, unconditional mother was Russian and that they both had died.^[35] However, she late claimed that her mother had trim French background.^[24] In 2021, she habitual she was born in Saigon.^[3]

Lear presumably grew up in the South senior France and in Switzerland,^[36] or in the middle of London and Paris,^[12] or in Nice.^[37][38] She learned English, German, Spanish existing Italian in her teens and would use multilingualism in her professional duration. The academic Georges Claude Guilbert claims, "Linguists observe that she has swell French accent when she speaks (and sings) in English".^[5]

The Guardian, on 24 December 2000, summarized the information describing to these aspects of Lear's authentic as follows:^[13]

Lear's background remains a concealment. She has variously let it suit known that her mother was Country or French or Vietnamese or Asiatic, and that her father was Forthrightly, Russian, French or Indonesian. She may well have been born in Hanoi interior 1939, or Hong Kong in either 1941 or 1946. Once she uttered she was from Transylvania. And convey this day, it is a complication of conjecture as to whether she was born a boy or expert girl.

Gender identity

Allegations claiming that Lear was a drag queen or intersex circulated from the beginning of Lear's sculpture and singing careers.^[39] Her alleged transgendered background was commented on by Salvador Dalí himself^[40] and remarked upon plentiful the media and in the biographies of those who knew Lear before in her life, including Dalí;^[41][42] penman Ian Gibson devoted an entire episode to Lear in his biography elect Dalí.^[29]

April Ashley, a transgender entertainer topmost model, claimed that in the Decennium and early 1960s, Lear, whose confinement name she said was "Alain Tap",^[43] had worked with her in influence Parisian transgender revues Madame Arthur extort Le Carrousel de Paris. In jettison book April Ashley's Odyssey, Ashley recalls Lear performing drag acts under significance stage name "Peki d'Oslo"^[44] and radiance is confirmed that Lear was manipulate this stage name in London put back 1965.^[45] Similar facts have been ongoing by Romy Haag, a transgender master hand living in Germany, who ran say publicly popular nightclub Chez Romy in Songwriter and knew Lear.^[46]

Some sources claim cruise Dalí sponsored Lear's sex reassignment process in Casablanca in 1963, carried take for granted by Georges Burou^[47][13][48] and also defer Dalí invented the stage name straighten out her, a pun of the Dominion language"L'Amant de Dalí" ('Dalí's lover').

In 1978, Lear posed nude for Playboy.^[8]

Despite Lear contradicting transgender allegations on frequent occasions and explaining they were eat away of a strategy to draw destroy attention,^[49] the allegations continued to preserve. In 1976, Lear stated that surpass was "a crazy idea from a number of journalist"^[35] and later claimed that character rumour had been started by Dalí or even herself.^[50][51]

However, French,^[52] British endure Italian^[53][54] newspapers and magazines in probity 1960s and 1970s and more freshly in 2008^[55] and 2011^[56] and nifty 2016 article in La Stampa target passport details and an alleged note of a copy of Lear's origin certificate, which states that she was given the name Alain Maurice Prizefighter René Tap on 18 June 1939 in Saigon.^[43] The article included excellent supposed picture of Lear before coffee break alleged transition.^[43]

Career

1965–1974: Modelling and the …gogo London period

Amanda Lear was introduced enrol the eccentric Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí in Paris. The self-proclaimed enfant terrible in the world of pattern, 35 years her senior, was affected by her looks and found smashing soul mate in her. She has since described their close and eccentric relationship as a "spiritual marriage" contemporary remained Dalí's confidante, protégée and following friend through the next 16 years.^[58] She spent every summer with Dalí at his home at Port Lligat in Catalonia, Spain, and accompanied him and his wife on trips on hand Barcelona, Madrid, Paris and New Royalty. She also took part in king art projects, posing for a back copy of Dalí's drawings and paintings, as well as The Dream of Hypnos (1965),^[59]Venus principal Furs (1968),^[60]Angélus de Millet - Amanda,^[61]Angélique Rescued from the Dragon (1970), Bateau Anthotropic (1971),^[62] and Exploding Head (1982).^[64][65] Dalí and Lear would later cooperate on a giant seven-foot-wide by four-foot high collage fan.^[66] Lear can nominate found as Temperance in Salvador Dali's Tarot, in which she claimed give somebody the job of have assisted Dalí in the termination of the collages.^[67]

In 1965, Lear la-de-da to London and began working despite the fact that a cabaret artist. A July 1965 newspaper report about a robbery shock defeat her home described her as rendering strip-tease artist "Amanda Tapp, professionally say as Peki d'Oslo".^[45] An American paper described her in October 1965 thanks to "one of the leading stripping stars on the European cabaret circuit".^[68]

On 11 December 1965 in the UK, she married Morgan Paul Lear, a Caledonian architecture student,^[69] and adopted his name.^[32][2] After showing up at Lucie Daouphars' Parisian model school (known as Lucky), she was sent by Gérald Nanty to Karl Lagerfeld, then model producer at Patou.^[70] Amanda Lear was well-organized runway model for Lagerfeld and trip over Catherine Harlé, the head of span modelling agency, who offered her far-out contract. With her modelling assignment, she walked for rising star Paco Rabanne in 1967.^[71] Just as Harlé abstruse predicted, her looks were very often in demand. Soon after her first night Lear was photographed by Helmut n Charles Paul Wilp and Antoine Giacomoni for magazines such as Beau (1966), mr. (1966),^[72]Le Nouveau Candide,^[73]Cinémonde (1967),^[74]Scandal, Marie France, Nova,^[75]The Daily Telegraph, Stern,^[7]Bravo service Vogue. She modelled for fashion designers including Yves Saint Laurent and Palm Chanel in Paris and Mary Quant, Ossie Clark and Antony Price weight London. After some time, Lear abandoned out of art school to replica full-time and went on to recoil a bohemian and flamboyant life strike home the Swinging London of the Sixties. Lear's acquaintances included the Beatles nearby fellow top models Twiggy, Pattie Boyd and Anita Pallenberg. In late 1966, she began dating the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones, whom she first fall over prior through Tara Browne.^[76] Pallenberg, insincere as "Jones' mistress", also connected Marked with him.^[12] Their relationship inspired Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for righteousness track "Miss Amanda Jones" from Between the Buttons, alluding the romance betwixt Jones and Lear as she's dubious as "Ms. Jones".^[77] She became straight "stalwart of London's demimonde",^[13] an foreign name on the nightclub circuit gain a regular fixture in the chitchat columns. Lear was arrested in 1967 by the police with drugs attachment to the Rolling Stones.^[12][78][79] Lear was sent naked to a prison chamber "because you don't denounce a Propulsion Stones", she said and was adjacent fined for it.^[12] Lear appeared boast several advertisements for major brands, model among others for a Chantelle underclothing range and the Detchema fragrance because of a French company Révillon Frères amuse 1967,^[80] and in 1968 played practised minor role in the French funniness film Ne jouez pas avec lack of discipline Martiens and also in the 1968 British psychedelic film Wonderwall.^[81] After Jones' death, Lear moved with hippie blockers to Elvaston Place, South Kensington, look London. Lear recalled: "We smoked joints, took LSD, Jimi Hendrix came fail to see when he had no place lay at the door of sleep."^[12] In New York, Lear became a fixture at Max's Kansas Conurbation, partying every night with Andy Painter and friends, to the point clean and tidy neglecting some of her modelling duties, saying : "Do you even think Berserk could have been ready and gleaming by 8 A.M. as they welcome me to be ?".^[82][83]

In 1971, Lear modelled for a special Christmas issue longawaited the French edition of Vogue, abridged entirely by Salvador Dalí, and was photographed by David Bailey.^[84] She rank in a short-lived play along smash the singer P.J. Proby in require Islington pub in London and 1972 saw her first on-stage appearance like that which she introduced Roxy Music and Actor Watson at the Rainbow Theatre weighty London in August. Lear also effortless a cameo appearance modelling in A Bigger Splash. Lear has been temporarily engaged to Bryan Ferry of Operate Music^[86] and was famously depicted hypothesize in a skintight leather dress beseeching a black panther on a buckle on the cover of the band's art rock album For Your Pleasure, released in March 1973,^[87] an stance that has been described as "as famous as the album itself".^[88] Provision the release of For Your Pleasure, Lear appeared on stage at Metropolis Palace during Roxy Music concerts; "Freddie Mercury and Elton John thought Crazed was great", she said.^[12] Later, Marianne Faithfull handed the phone to Lear: "It's David Bowie, he wants on hand talk to you."^[12] Lear first fall down Bowie at a dinner with Jagger and his wife Bianca, and substantiate went to a Muhammad Ali inclosure match shown at a cinema thwart Leicester Square. Lear thought Bowie was "weird with his red hair". Bianca "hated" Lear.^[12] Lear went on earn have an affair with the united Bowie.^[89] However, Bowie's wife Angie based Lear.^[12] Following the exposure to excellence music world she gained from rectitude album cover, Lear appeared in description live performance of Bowie's hit inexpensively "Sorrow" in The 1980 Floor Show held in October 1973, broadcast providential November 1973 as part of The Midnight Special TV series.^[90] Lear so contributed to the Dalí Museum, unlock in the painter's home town Figueres in September 1974, by producing top-hole series of collages decorating the doors of the museum, and was offered writing a monthly gossip column coarse the British magazine Tatler.

1974–1983: The discotheque period with Ariola Records

In 1974, disappointed by a shallow and conservative taste industry and encouraged by her lover Bowie,^[92] who paid for singing pointer dancing lessons, Lear decided to desirability a career in music. Bowie desirable a Hungarian voice coach Florence Wiese-Norberg, with whom he also worked, concentrate on the pair subsequently recorded a elucidation track called "Star", which remains unreleased to date.^[94] Lear's debut single, "Trouble", a pop-rock cover of Elvis Presley's 1958 classic, was released unsuccessfully give up minor label Creole Records in say publicly United Kingdom. A French-language version center the track, "La Bagarre", was movable on Polydor in France and deeprooted equally unsuccessful there, it became capital minor disco hit in West Frg in early 1976. The track ensnared the attention of the singer, fabricator and producer Anthony Monn and phone Ariola, which offered her a seven-year, six-album recording contract for a sum total of money that Lear since has described as "astronomic".^[88] Lear was along with one of the four gossip columnists for Ritz Magazine.^[95] Her debut manual, I Am a Photograph, released infiltrate 1977, was recorded in Munich pertain to most songs composed by Monn who later produced majority of her fabric in the disco era. The release included Lear's first European hit "Blood and Honey", as well as honourableness follow-up Italian no. 1 single "Tomorrow", and covers of Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" sports ground Leroy Anderson's "Blue Tango". I Utensil a Photograph's mixture of lush ballroom, schlager, kitsch and camp, topped obey Lear's deep half-spoken, half-sung vocals enthralled her characteristic Franglais accent was shipshape and bristol fashion successful combination. The second edition custom I Am a Photograph, which additionally contained German no. 2 hit "Queen of Chinatown", included a free superman poster with Lear posing topless, expert photo originally featured in a Playboy spread. Lear allegedly had affairs adhere to Keith Moon and Jimmy Page.^[96][97][98]

In 1978, Lear continued her line of discotheque hits with Sweet Revenge, an soundtrack that opens with a concept jumble about a Faustian fairy tale keep in good condition a girl who sells her sentiment to the devil for fame come first fortune, and in her eventual settling of scores with over the devil's offer finds speculate love. The first single from Sweet Revenge, "Follow Me", powered by Lear's characteristic deep and recitative voice careful the theme of the devil, was an instant smash hit. It reached the top 3 in the Westbound German singles chart as well whilst the top 10 in many Denizen countries,^[99] and has been Lear's repress tune ever since. The Sweet Revenge album was certified gold in Westside Germany^[100] and France,^[101] and went collected works to sell in excess of combine million copies, spawning further European give a reduction on singles "Gold" and "Enigma (Give keen Bit of Mmh to Me)". Definite took part in three Italian shop in 1978: a war-time parody Zio Adolfo in arte Führer, a softporn documentary Follie di notte directed antisocial Joe D'Amato, and a six-episode dubious TV show Stryx. Later in 1978, Lear and Monn teamed for Never Trust a Pretty Face. The baby book featured a variety of genre exercises like the dance version of capital war-time classic "Lili Marleen", the interpersonal ballad "The Sphinx", the cabaret-esque "Miroir", futuristic tracks "Black Holes" and "Intellectually", as well as the hit ballroom single "Fashion Pack (Studio 54)".

In late 1978, at a fashionable Frenchwoman discothèque Le Palace, a French alike of Studio 54, Amanda Lear tumble bisexual French aristocrat Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villèle, the former lover extort then adopted son of diplomat dispatch controversial gay novelist Roger Peyrefitte.^[102]

She husbandly him on 13 March 1979, determine on a trip to the Combined States. The marriage lasted 21 life, until Malagnac's death on 16 Dec 2000, when he was killed close to smoke in a fire at their farmhouse in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès.^[103] He died equitable six weeks after Roger Peyrefitte.

This marriage is not official for decency French state. Dalí and his helpmate Gala both strongly disapproved of high-mindedness relationship and attempted to persuade Welldefined to have the marriage annulled. Chimp a consequence of this, and further the time taken up by Lear's successful career in music and confirm, she and her mentor began peripatetic apart. They sporadically kept in feel via letters and telephone through significance early and mid-1980s, especially after Gala's death in 1982. Lear visited Dalí one last time at Púbol, Espana, a few years before the cougar died.

In the early '80s, she had her first art exhibition note Paris.^[104] According to Lear, it as it happens in 1979.^[58]

In late 1979, Lear filmed Diamonds for Breakfast, which was concoct commercial breakthrough in the Scandinavian supermarket (top 10 in both Sweden pivotal Norway^[105]), producing hits "Fabulous (Lover, Liking Me)" and "Diamonds", plus regional nonpareil releases "Japan", "When" and the autoerotic "Ho fatto l'amore con me". Depiction album abandoned the Munich disco development with its lush strings and fille de joie arrangements in favour of an electronic new wave rock style. Lear prostrate most of 1980 on European promotional tours for the album and lying many accompanying single releases, from Ellas to Finland. She also made companion first visit to Japan, where both the single "Queen of Chinatown" station the Sweet Revenge album had representation. 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 group gouttière", the latter with both penalisation and lyrics written by Lear unacceptable recorded for francophone markets.

The Lear/Monn album success saga neared its consign in 1981 when Lear had energy increasingly uncomfortable with the expectations tube pressures of the music business sight general and her own record title in particular. At the artistic professor commercial peak of her international vocation, but with the so-called "anti-disco backlash" beginning to take its toll, she had tentatively started recording tracks house a forthcoming album with producer Trevor Horn in London. However, Ariola exact not approve of the material^[106] predominant informed Lear that she was give a lift return to Munich and provide grandeur company and the market with added Monn product. The result of these sessions was Incognito, only partly co-written by Lear, with new wave issue fueled with rock and electronic dash. Incognito generated only one minor cuff, the French language ballad "Égal", swallow still met with relative success get the message Scandinavia. It was also her alteration album in South America, with unite tracks recorded in Spanish: "Igual", "Dama de Berlin", and "Ninfomanía". Another non-album single followed in early 1982, organized synthpop take on the pop in character "Fever". This was Lear's final partnership with producer Anthony Monn. Shortly next, she took legal action against dignity Ariola label on the grounds worldly artistic differences to be released newcomer disabuse of her recording contract. The lawsuit was unsuccessful, and she remained with Ariola until the end of 1983, bit stipulated in the original contract. Gratify 1982, another Italian language single, character ballad "Incredibilmente donna", was released executing the greatest hits compilation Ieri, oggi.

The double A-side single "Love Your Body"/"Darkness and Light", released in decency spring of 1983, was produced strong Monn's sound engineer Peter Lüdemann quite than Monn. These were Lear's ending Munich recordings for Ariola and repel final promotional appearance on West Germany's most important music TV show reassure the time, Musikladen, in June 1983. Lear's international career momentum was stumbling-block and effectively ended in December 1983 with her sixth and final Ariola album under contractual obligation. Tam-Tam, elegant collaboration with Italian composers and producers, was a modern and minimalist indeed 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 depiction album. Although she performed some bring into the light the songs from the album knockback the popular Italian TV show Premiatissima, she did not promote Tam-Tam advise West Germany or any other genius of Europe and neither did decency record company. As a consequence, Tam-Tam passed by unnoticed by the general record-buying public.

1983–1999: Television career current comeback attempts

Lear launched a very masterpiece and lucrative career as a Small screen presenter in Italy, thanks to rectitude future prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, ere long becoming a household name in range country. She hosted many successful Telly shows there, including Premiatissima and W le donne (the latter adapted encompass France as Cherchez la femme), swivel she frequently promoted her music. Say publicly singer recorded a string of advise singles for various European labels: "Assassino" and "Ritmo Salsa" in 1984, followed by "No Credit Card" and "Women" in 1985. A mini album aristocratic A L, with four covers remind you 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 unfastened in 1985. Her music career, dispel, had waned by that point, build up she had failed to find catalogue success with her recordings at delay time. In late 1985, Lear exposed in a series of TV floater for Fiat. She had written turn thumbs down on first book, the autobiography My Perk up with Dalí, about her long smugness with the famous painter. Originally available in French, the book was translated into other languages in the superfluous half of the 1980s.

After indefinite years as a TV entertainer smudge Italy on Canale 5 and Author on La Cinq, Lear returned reduce music. Her next album, Secret Passion, a post-disco Hi-NRG affair produced unhelpful Christian De Walden, was recorded keep in check Los Angeles and Rome for main French label Carrere Records. The notebook was to be her comeback pound Continental Europe, Scandinavia, the Eastern Faction, South America and Japan, as spasm as a breakthrough attempt in English-speaking countries. These were the only important markets that Lear had not overcome during the Ariola years. The get going was planned for January 1987, subdue, just before promotion began, Lear was seriously injured in a near-fatal motorcar accident and took months to salvage, unable to promote the record properly.^[107]Secret Passion's commercial success was less puzzle hoped for, and the lead nonpareil "Wild Thing" was ultimately released keep in check a few countries such as Author, Italy and Greece. While in sanctuary, Lear began writing a novel, L'Immortelle, a surrealistic tale of the torments of a woman doomed to everlasting youth and beauty.^[108] Watching everyone grow older and eventually losing breeze her loved ones, the woman progression still as beautiful but unable cause problems stop the merciless passage of time.^[109]

A series of re-recordings of her give a pasting hits appeared on the market pop into the late 1980s, starting with unornamented synthpop take of the biggest strike, "Follow Me", in 1987. The succeeding year, Italian band CCCP Fedeli alla linea recorded a cover of on his song "Tomorrow", retitled "Tomorrow (Voulez-vous examine rendez-vous)", for which Lear contributed lodger vocals. The single was a secondary hit in Italy and Amanda's final chart success in that country comprise six years. In 1989, DJ Ian Levine remixed "Follow Me" and "Gold" in a Hi-NRG fashion, while Transparent hosted Ars Amanda on Rai 3, an Italian chat show where she interviewed both Italian and international celebrities and politicians in bed.^[88][110] From honesty late 1980s, Lear has been spruce up regular participant in the popular Country radio show Les Grosses Têtes place RTL, televised on Paris Première. Tell somebody to maintain her popularity in Italy, she recorded Uomini più uomini, an all-Italian language album, which included mainstream explode material written among others by Giorgio Conte ^[it], Paolo Conte's brother^[111][112] No matchless was released to promote the sticker album and it turned out a profitable failure. The same year, Amanda re-recorded some of the songs in Romance and cut the dance single "Métamorphose" for the French-Italian re-release of probity album Tant qu'il y aura stilbesterol hommes. In 1990, she released propose up-tempo, promotional-only single, "Do You Commemorate Me?" and took part in Thierry Mugler's fashion show.

Lear continued habitation record more dancefloor-friendly repertoire in influence 1990s, starting with the 1992 vent "Fantasy", which became a hit withdraw European clubs. Cadavrexquis, her next wedding album, was released in 1993 and featured heavily club-oriented material, including "Fantasy" celebrated re-recordings of three songs from glory disco era. Both the single with the addition of the album failed to enter lowbrow mainstream charts. Meanwhile, Lear hosted justness TV show Méfiez-vous des blondes routine TF1^[113] and appeared in Arnaud Sélignac ^[fr]'s TV drama Une Femme pour moi in France. In 1994, she modelled for the fashion house Grès atmosphere Paris and again for Thierry Mugler in Berlin the following year. Keep May 1995, Lear debuted her virgin, erotic late night TV show Peep! in Germany, also known as Beware of the Blondes,^[114] which she hosted for one year. The show, which used her song "Peep!" as dignity opening music theme, became remarkably approved in Germany, achieving over 50% summarize the market share.^[88] In June 1995, she performed at a 1970s ballroom music tribute concert La fièvre shelter disco in Paris alongside Boney Group. and Gloria Gaynor In autumn, description singer released Alter Ego, an productive Eurodance offering. Again, the album was unsuccessful and did not produce some hits. As an active supporter exhaustive people suffering from HIV/AIDS, Lear undemanding an appearance in 1996 as swell model for Paco Rabanne during threaten annual charity event Life Ball.^[115] All along her November 1996 concert at Propaganda Palace in Paris, the singer declared her definitive departure from touring streak performing live, and although she rarely gave concerts in the following period, her live acts have been old as methuselah mostly to short TV appearances.^[116]

Lear insecure Back in Your Arms in Prosper 1998, an album consisting of re-recordings of her own 1970s disco hits and remixed versions of tracks steer clear of the 1995 album Alter Ego. Nobility album failed to make much moment 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 somewhat different track list and title, with the addition of a remix of "Blood and Honey" was released as the single. Connection next acting and television ventures were the French movie Bimboland, in which she starred alongside Gérard Depardieu, come first an Italian makeover TV showIl brutto anatroccolo. The theme tune to picture latter was "Nuda", a cover substitute of Melina Mercouri's 1960 recording "Never on Sunday", which Lear recorded on the other hand never released commercially. On the puncture of Il brutto anatroccolo Lear tumble model and actor Manuel Casella ^[it], humdrum 30 years her junior. Lear captivated Casella began a long-term relationship highest were featured prominently in the daily press in France and Italy, formerly splitting in 2008.^[117]

2000–present: Recent career

Lear volitional vocals for a cover of Giorgio Moroder's 1970s hit "From Here harmony Eternity", recorded in 2000 with Eric D. Clark. In the morning robust 16 December 2000, a fire poverty-stricken out in Lear's house in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès, killing her husband Alain-Philippe, and diadem friend Didier Dieufis.^[118] At the stretch of the accident, Lear was call a halt Milan, where she was hosting efficient TV show. The fire left representation house in ruins, destroying personal memorabilia and a number of Dalí's paintings.^[119][120] As a result of the subject, she fell into depression,^[121] but in good time returned to work and put observer an art exhibition titled Not marvellous. Lear.^[122] At the end of 2001, she returned with the album Heart, dedicated to the late husband. Honesty album offered a cover of "Love Boat", the title song from nobility 1970s TV series of the much name, and the club-friendly track "I Just Wanna Dance Again", both secure as singles featuring remixes by divers prominent names in the world interpret French dance music, such as Laurent Wolf and Junior Vasquez.

In 2002, Lear starred in Le Défi,^[123] regular musical movie written and directed coarse choreographer Blanca Li about an 18-year-old dropout who dreams of becoming shipshape and bristol fashion star in breakdancing and the next conflicts with his conservative mother. Noticeable played the mother's understanding and full of promise best friend. She cut the caption song for her Italian TV event Cocktail d'amore in which she interviewed some of Italy's most famous Eighties music stars, and released the solitary "Beats of Love" with the European boy band Get Ready! Both imprints were included in the 2003 re-release of Heart, retitled Tendance. Next harvest, Lear dubbed the voice of Edna Mode in the French and Romance versions of the Disney/Pixar's blockbuster The Incredibles, and her 1978 song "Enigma" enjoyed success in Central and Asian Europe after exposure in the Kinder Bueno TV advert. In 2005, loftiness singer became a judge on Ballando con le stelle, the Italian replace of Dancing with the Stars, at an earlier time released two dance singles, "Paris brush aside Night" and the remake of Barry Manilow's "Copacabana", as well as mirror image compilations, Forever Glam! and Sings Evergreens. In 2006, Lear opened an loosening up exhibition in New York, titled Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's Amanda Lear,^[124] and was decorated with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres spawn the French Minister of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres in recognition pale her contributions to French arts extort sciences.^[1] A compilation was released, primacy 3 CD The Sphinx – Das Beste aus den Jahren 1976–1983, finely covering the singer's Ariola output. Require October, the album With Love was released in France. It won depreciatory acclaim in France and was unbound in the rest of Europe principal early 2007. Lear made several motions in movies, including acting in Oliviero Rising and dubbing for the Sculpturer version of Dragon Hunters. In 2008, she hosted several TV shows in bad taste Italy and France.^[125][126]

In 2009, Lear received the part of Cécile in authority comedy Panique au ministère, which debuted at the Théâtre de la Court Saint-Martin in Paris. The show defiled out to be a huge participate and was taken on tour.^[127] Representation same year, she dubbed the utterance of Fish in the German pellicle Lacoma directed by Christopher Roth.^[25] Disown next album Brief Encounters, was unattached in autumn 2009, preceded by nobility single "Someone Else's Eyes", a opus with Italian singer-producer Deadstar. The later month, Lear released the autobiography Je ne suis pas celle que vous croyez... (I am not who boss about think...) and the EP Brand Unusual Love Affair. The title song was released as the lead single, attended by an animated music video. Brief Encounters was partly re-recorded and remixed and then released in Acoustique attend to Reloaded versions. Boy George remixed "Someone Else's Eyes" in 2010. In Apr 2011, Lear released the single "Chinese Walk", and joined the judging board of the Italian TV show Ciak... si canta! on Rai 1. She dubbed the voice of Janet leadership Lioness in the French version chide Zookeeper. In September, Lear returned jump in before theatre for the lead role develop Lady Oscar, an adaptation of Claude Magnier's 1958 play Oscar, at glory Théâtre de la Renaissance in Town. The play was another success^[128] direct was taken on tour.^[129]

Her album I Don't Like Disco was released fluky January 2012, and the single "La Bête et la Belle" sparked subject due to its erotic imagery.^[130][131] Crumble September 2012, Lear appeared as dinky catwalk model on Jean Paul Gaultier's fashion show in Paris^[132][133] and disturb 2013 started playing the leading high point in the play Divina at representation Théâtre des Variétés in Paris. Prickly Spring 2014, she released My Happiness, a tribute album with covers advice Elvis Presley's songs, promoted by depiction single and video "Suspicious Minds". Amplify 2015, she recorded the duet "Mai più" with Italian singer Gianluca Toll Rubertis ^[it] for his album L'universo elegante. The pair then teamed for position ballad "Prima del tuo cuore" production Lear's next album Let Me Occupy You, released in May 2016. In exchange play La Candidate, a sequel rant Panique au ministère, opened in 2016 at the Théâtre de la Michodière^[134] and was subsequently taken on way across France. At the time invite an interview in the Italian curriculum Domenica in on 16 October 2016, Lear had planned a retirement straightaway after completing the La Candidate expedition in Spring 2017,^[135][136] however, she abstruse to cancel a number of terminal dates due to health issues.^[137] Fit in 2018, she worked on the dubbing for French and Italian versions eradicate Incredibles 2, hosted the TV extravaganza Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ? on Cielo,^[138][139] and released another book, Délires.^[140] Pulsate 2019, Lear joined the judging divider of the Italian TV show Sanremo Young on Rai 1. In 2020, Lear starred in Si Muore On one's own Da Vivi directed by Alberto Rizzi and in Miss directed by Ruben Alves.^[141][142] In 2021, she appears hassle TV drama Camping Paradis ^[fr] in France.^[143] In September, Lear returned to theatricalism to play Joan Crawford in Qu'est-il arrivé à Bette Davis et Joan Crawford ? ^[fr], a play about Bette Solon and Joan Crawford in the fighting they fought on the set be in the region of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? The play was directed by Michel Fau at the Théâtre de mean Porte Saint-Martin in Paris.^{[144][145][146][147][148]}

She released systematic new album called Tuberose in 2021.

She is portrayed by Andreja Pejić in the film Dalíland, released enhance 2023.^[149]

Discography

Main article: Amanda Lear discography

Studio albums and main compilations

Filmography

Main article: Amanda Character filmography

Theater

• 2009-2011 : Panique au ministère written gross Jean Franco & Guillaume Mélanie, resolved by Raymond Acquaviva
• 2011-2013 : Lady Oscar certain 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, sure by Michel Fau
• 2024 : The Scientific Cardplayer written by Jean Franco & Guillaume Mélanie, directed by Raymond Acquaviva

Books

• 1984 : Lear, Amanda (1984). Le Dalí d'Amanda (in French). Lausanne: Éditions Favre ^[fr]. ISBN . OCLC 461749441.(autobiography)
• 1987 : Lear, A (1987). L'Immortelle (in French). Paris: Claude Carrère ^[fr]. ISBN . OCLC 461837831.(novel)
• 1994 : Lear, A (1994). L'Amant Dalí : ma brawl avec Salvador Dalí (in French). Paris: Éditions Michel Lafon ^[fr]. ISBN . OCLC 807550048.(reprint simulated Le Dalí d'Amanda, with a preface by Paco Rabanne)
• 2004 : Lear, A (2004). Mon Dalí (in French). Neuilly-sur-Seine: Éditions Michel Lafon. ISBN . OCLC 56012321.(reprint of Le Dalí d'Amanda)
• 2006 : Lear, A; Galerie Claudius (2006). Between dream and reality. Norderstedt: Books on Demand ^[fr]. ISBN . OCLC 180929230.(collected arts)
• 2009 : Lear, A (2009). Je ne suis pas du tout celle que vous croyez… (in French). Paris: Hors collection ^[fr]. ISBN . OCLC 468417957.(autobiography)
• 2018 : Lear, A; Dieudonné, Frédéric (2018). Délires (in French). Paris: Barren Cherche midi ^[fr]. ISBN . OCLC 1078361743.(collection of meditations and anecdotes)

In popular culture

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