Amanda Lear

Also known as Amanda Tapp, Alain Maurice Louis René Tap

French singer, actress, television presenter

Person · Open Library

Works: 8

Top works

Le Dali d'Amanda
Dali glazami Amandy
Dali
El Dali De Amanda/Amanda's Dali
La Persistencia de La Memoria

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: France
Active from: 1939-11-18

actressdiscoeasy listeningfrenchitalian popitalo-disco

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 148,570
Total plays: 1,591,819

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,861x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,518x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,384x
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,144x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,764x

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Quotes

“I don't care when I was born, if I'm 50, 60 or 70. It's important that I am alive.”
“I hate to spread rumours: but what else can one do with them?”
“I knew nothing when I first met him. He taught me to see things through his eyes. Dalí was my teacher. He let me use his brushes, his paint and his canvas, so that I could play around while he was painting for hours and hours in the same studio. Surrealism was a good school for me. Listening to Dalí talk was better than going to any art school.”
“In Italy I'm big because they're all so sex-obsessed. In Germany I succeeded because they've been waiting for someone like Marlene Dietrich to come along ever since the war. I played on their need for a drunken, nightclubbing vamp. And I've won the gays, who are crucial because they have all the best discos, entirely because of the extraordinary legends about me.”
“The Germans told me "We're going to conquer the world!" and I don't regret working with a German record company at all, because for my career it was great, but they wanted to control me, direct me and restrict me. They wanted absolute discipline and that's not the life for me, so after a few years of that I wanted out.”
“People only know me as a celebrity and don't realize how much more important art is to me than makeup and set costumes. Show business pays the rent, but painting is my only true passion, so I define myself as a painter who works in show business. Art is a kind of therapy to me, thanks to which I can interpret my feelings. An empty canvas before my eyes is synonymous with the absolute freedom of expression.”

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Key facts

Born: Amanda Tap or Tapp , c. 1939–50 , ( various dates given – see § Early life ), Saigon , French Indochina , (present-day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Occupations: Singer songwriter painter television personality actress model
Spouse: Alain-Philippe Malagnac ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1979 ; died 2000 )
Height: 176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Hair color: Blonde
Eye color: Brown
Genres: Pop dance Euro disco pop rock new wave Eurodance jazz
Instrument: Vocals
Years active: 1965–present
Labels: Ariola Records Five Records Carrere Records Ricordi International Chène Music ZYX Music Le Marais Productions Edina Music Just Good Music for Your Ears Little Boom Records
Website: www .amandalear .com

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Described at

Amanda Lear: The pop star who made up her life story

We all like a bit of mystery surrounding our favourite artists, but Amanda Lear truly dove head first into the allure of mystique.

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The first time a large portion of the world saw Amanda Lear was on the cover of Roxy Music ’s For Your Pleasure. There she stood, clad in leather with a black panther on a lead. It was a pretty cool gig for any model to land, standing on the cover of one of the biggest bands in the world’s record, looking cooler than anybody has ever looked; however, Amanda Lear wasn’t satisfied. She started her career as a model, a job she got to fund her fine art education, but she hated the role. “Before singing, I used to be a fashion model, the most boring job in the world,” she said when discussing her disdain for it, “People give you money because you’re beautiful: It’s immoral, and stupid… I’ve done nothing, I am a coat hanger.” Lear had a deep appreciation for art and wasn’t satisfied with being a model. She started making music and intended to champion a more intellectual version of disco. She was always very vocal about how the genre dumbs itself down, and intended to create a variation of the sound which used lyrics with more nuance. Her willingness to try and evolve a genre which was already established and loved is a reflection of her commitment to art. “Disco music is a fantastic medium, and it’s a pity not to use it intelligently: we used rock to communicate with youth,” she said. “What shocks me is seeing my colleagues, who sing well, sing idiocies. The music is good, the production is good, the singer is good. The lyrics are aberrant.” She always said that she wanted to be the Juliette Gréco of the ‘80s, which meant creating a more complicated style of disco music. She didn’t stop there, though; her entire life became a work of art, as her career existed outside of modelling and music. A mystery began to surround Lear, one that onlookers couldn’t permeate, and which only added to this beautiful enigma, who was taking disco music to new heights. Her relationship with Salvador Dalí helped to encourage such an approach to her image. The two were friends, and while Dalí wasn’t the most supportive of her art, he did help expand upon the mystery surrounding Lear by making the public question her gender. There were many rumours which circulated about whether Lear was born a man or a woman, all of which had been orchestrated by Dalí when he said, “You’re neither a girl nor a boy. You’re angelic, an archetype.” Lear helped stir these rumours within her music with lines like, “The surgeon built me so well, that nobody could tell, I was somebody else”. She also contributed to her mystery by constantly changing where she was born and who her parents were; she also never revealed her true age. Having this beautiful stranger singing intellectual disco was a truly unique artistic concept, and one that meant she was considered one of the highest forms of art when discussing her merit. The writer and director of the documentary Queen Lear , Gero von Boehm, described her approach to art best as her willingness to make up an entire persona, all boiled down to her hatred of two things, two things which she shied away from her whole career.

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.amandalear.com
Image: Amanda Lear 2010 a.jpg
Height: 175

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Commons category: Amanda Lear
name in native language: Amanda Lear
start of work period: 1965-00-00
date of birth: 1939-11-18
birth name: Tap
described at URL: faroutmagazine.co.uk/amanda-lear-the-pop-star-who-made-up-her-life-story

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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. 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 Sweet Revenge (1978). Her 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".