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My Take
Amanda Lear might be the greatest act of self-invention in European pop culture. Dalí's muse for two decades, a Paco Rabanne model, then a disco queen with that unmistakable smoky voice on Follow Me, then a painter honored by the French state — and through it all she kept her own biography deliberately blurry, which I consider part of the artwork. What I admire is the control: she understood decades before social media that a persona is something you author yourself. Most performers have careers; Lear built a myth, and she is still curating it past eighty. That takes intelligence as much as glamour.
Overview
Amanda Lear (French pronunciation: [amɑ̃da liʁ]; née Tap or Tapp) is a French singer, songwriter, painter, television presenter, actress and former model. 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 almost 20 years.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Amanda Lear
- Name (Japanese)
- アマンダ・リア
- Reading
- あまんだ・りあ
- Born
- June 18, 1939 (age 86)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Rabbit
- Origin
- Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 175 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- painter / singer / actor / model / lyricist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Follow Me | — | |
| Notable work | Queen of Chinatown | — | |
| Notable work | Fashion Pack | — | |
| Notable work | Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me) | — | |
| Notable work | Diamonds | — |
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://www.amandalear.com/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/amanda.lear/
- Xhttps://x.com/reinelear
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda%20Lear
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.