Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear , born Amanda Tapp , is a Chanteuse, Actrice, French TV host and painter born with HongKong, of a father officer French of British origin and of an Russo-Asian mother. In addition to its two native tongues (the French and the English), she usually speaks the German , the Italian and the Spanish . She was also the egery of El Salvador Dalí.

Biography

Raised between the south of France and Switzerland, it is registered at the 16 years age to courses of painting in Paris before moving for London where it enters to the Saint Martins College off Art and Design. At 18 years, it is located by an agency of mannequins and takes part in various processions, in particular for Paco Rabanne. It meets the painter Surréaliste El Salvador Dalí in 1965, who in fact his model and with which it will maintain a relation which will last fifteen years, as it could tell it in its book devoted to the painter. El Salvador Dalí then affirmed with its interlocutors that Amanda Lear was in fact a man. Then unknown, Amanda Lear included/understood all the party which it could draw, in the media, of these sulfurous revelations and was presented in the form of a “egery of El Salvador Dalí”.

In the years 1970, she attends the musical avant-garde of the time, posing for the small pocket of the album of Roxy Music For your pleasure , and decides into 1975 to launch out in the song on the councils of David Bowie. She on television starts an activity of presenter in the years 1980, in Italy and France. She also tests herself with painting and appears in films and televised series. It is it which lends its voice to " Edna Mode" , the designer of the supermen of cartoon film Indestructibles .

Musical career

It is in 1975 that Amanda Lear leaves its first individual, Trouble (a resumption of Elvis Presley), on the English label Creole records. The title will leave to France under the title the brawl in 1976 and will be a certain success in discotheque. It is the same year that Amanda obtains its first tube, Blood and honey . In 1977 its first album I amndt has photograph (reference to its career of mannequin) remains classified 33 weeks in the German charts and two large tubes are extracted from it: Tomorrow and Queen off chinatown . Queen off chinatown will be even gold disc in Japan, a rather rare exploit for a foreign artist.

In 1978 individual the Follow is to me a new European tube. It precedes the exit by the second album of Amanda, Sweet revenge . The album is sold to 2 million specimens and is classified in the charts of 41 countries. The same year, Amanda Lear gives an exceptional concert to the Palace in Paris in front of 2.000 people. Encouraged by this reception, Amanda Lear leaves a third album, Never trust has pretty face , carried by individual the Fashion pack and considered by her fans as the best.

Its fourth album, Diamonds for breakfast , leaves in 1980 and meets a great success in Eastern Europe where Amanda Lear is true a star.

In 1981, Amanda already sold nearly 20 million discs and wishes to turn over to its first love, the Rock. She records demonstrations in London with Trevor Horn but its recording company is not convinced and obliges it to leave another album Disco. It will be Incognito , which will not be discounted success, except in its Spanish version which will be sold very well in South America.

Continuous Amanda Lear to record albums in the years 1980 and 1990 with more or less of success, and it is in 2001 that it makes her great return with the album Heart . Two individual will be extracted from it: the resumption of Coils boat , and I just wanna dance again , formatted for the discotheques.

In 2005 leaves Forever glam a " best off " recalling all its career.

October 30th 2006 Amanda is of return with her thirteenth album, entitled With coils , collection of 12 standards among its preferred ( My baby just cares for me , Déshabillez me , Bambino …).

Career of stimulating

Amanda Lear carries out the essence of her career of stimulating in France and Italy, but she also worked with the German Télévision (presentation of the show Peep! of 1995 with 1996) and appears in television programs in Spain.

In France

Amanda Lear holds of the headings or fact of the regular appearances in various emissions, where she plays a part of charming lady of men. She is chroniqueuse regular Famous persons, at the sides of Philippe Bouvard; she appeared with almost all the emissions of the televised version of this program of entertainment.

In 1986, it takes part in the launching of the chain the Five, directed by Silvio Berlusconi, and then animates on this same chain the emission Cherchez the woman .

She presents the emission rascal Méfiez of the blondes , on TF1, at the beginning of the Années 1990.

In 1993 - 1994, it is chroniqueuse emission Sacrée Evening, at the time of the last season of the emission: Jean-Pierre Foucault called it, like Laurent Baffie, to save an audience in fall. It took part in the first season of the daily program of Canal+ 20:10 pétantes , in 2003-2004.

In Italy

Amanda Lear worked a long time for Silvio Berlusconi (who besides directly contacted it). She in particular presented Viva gives it (Italian version of Cherchez the woman ) which obtained a price of better variety programme; Buonasera on Rete 4 and more recently It brutto anatroccolo where she knew her current promised in marriage Manuel Casella.

In 2001, it passes finally to the Rai where it animates in particular Cocktail of amore , emission centered on the Années 1980, and large the notte on Rai Due. After its ousting of the emission of Télé reality the talpa it is devoted especially to painting.

In spite of that it continues its regular appearances on television Italian: in 2004 - 2005 it belongs to the jury of the emission of dance Ballando idiot the stele ; in 2006 it Co-animates one of the famous evenings of Miss Italy . And it is in 2007 that it belongs to the jury of Miss Italy , fascinating share with each great evening of the program.

Transsexual or not?

A tough rumor introduces Amanda Lear like a Transsexuel it, which she always contradicted. According to it, this rumor was launched by David Bowie, and was only one “trick” to promote its first album.

Other sources allot the doubt about the female identity of Amanda Lear to El Salvador Dalí, which had been the companion of Amanda starting from 1965, and one wants to sometimes see in his name the presence of a “Dalí lover”. Dalí would have located Amanda Lear in a review of transvestites and its operation of change of sex in Casablanca would have paid him.

In her memories (not published in France), the transsexual April Ashley tells that the cabaret the Carousel, where it gave itself of representation, accommodated at the end of the years 1950 " a novel member, Peki of Oslo, alias Alain Tapp, known later under the name of Amanda Lear" after having changed sex and having married a Scot of the name of Lear, the December 11th 1965, with a single aim of acquiring British nationality. These assertions are taken again and supplemented by other sources. Amanda Lear repeated in several interviews with English newspapers, where was born this rumor, not to be neither Peki Of Oslo nor Alain Tapp.

In Spain, the little girl of the general Free, Carmen Martinez Bordiu, who was the wife of Alphonse of Bourbon, claiming with the crown of France, written in her memories published by the Spanish magazine Hola in 1996, qu ' it knew Amanda Lear in Figueres with the return of her honeymoon when Dalí invited the couple to spend the summer there. She specifies that Amanda Lear was not operated yet and that Dalí tested a true fascination for the transsexual and lived a strange love affair with the Frenchwoman .

Criticisms continue to maintain the doubt, insisting in particular on its very serious voice, its size (1,76 meter) and its original physique. They also underline that Amanda Lear did not have children and that it bound to men with ambiguous sexuality, like David Bowie, Andy Warhol, her husband (lower cf) or even Dalí.

Lastly, the words of its song Fabulous (To coil, Coils Me) (1979) are often quoted like index: " Suckers built me so well/Nobody could Tel./That I ounce was somebody else " (“the surgeons built me so well that nobody can say that I was formerly someone else”).

The opponents with this theory underline however that the past of mannequin of Amanda Lear and her photographs naked are enough to show that it is well a woman.

The Saint-Etienne-of-Sandstone drama

The March 13rd 1979, Amanda Lear marries with Las Vegas, in the United States, Alain-Philippe Malagnac d' Argens de Villele, former secretary and friend very close to the writer Roger Peyrefitte.

The December 16th 2000, whereas Amanda is in Italy, a fire devastates the farmhouse couple, with Saint-Etienne-of-Sandstone in the Rhone delta. 51 years old, her husband finds death in the flames. The other victim of the fire is a 20 year old young man, Didier Dieufis, present this night at Alain Philippe Malagnac. Goods of great value were destroyed on this occasion, inter alia masterpieces of which about fifteen signed fabrics El Salvador Dalí.

Painter

Amanda Lear is also painter, with a certain predilection for the naked masculine. Several of its own tables were destroyed in the fire of its house.

Distinctions

2006 : Knight about Arts and of the Letters

Iconography

Small pocket of the album For Your Pleasure , of Roxy Music, in 1973. Amanda Lear was one of the most famous mannequins English, of 1967, date of her beginnings, with 1974, where it decides to launch out in the song.

She made the cover of magazines as famous as Marie-France, NOVA, Daily Telegraph; Stern and much of others… and was the MUSE of Ossie Clark and Mary Quant.

Discography

Albums

1977 : I amndt has Photograph (#25 Austria)
1978: Sweet Revenge (#8 Austria)
1979: Never Trust has Pretty Face (#20 Sweden)
1980: Diamonds for Breakfast (#4 Sweden, #10 Norway, #11 Austria)
1981: Incognito (#19 Norway, #28 Sweden)
1982: Ieri, Oggi
1983: Tam Tam
1985 : Amanda Lear
1987: Secret Passion
1989: Uomini più uomini
1990 : As long as there will be men
1993: Cadavrexquis
1995 : Alter ego
1998: Back in Your Arms
2000: Follow Me… Back in My Arms
2001: Heart
2003 : Tendency
2003: Living room Legend
2005: Forever Glam!
2005 : Sings Evergreens
2006 : The Sphinx - Das Beste aus den Jahren 1976 - 1983 (3 CD)
2006: With Coils

Individual

1975 : Disorder
1976: the Brawl
1976: Blood and Honey (#5 Italy, #12 Germany)
1976: Alphabet
1976: Alphabeto
1977 : Queen off Chinatown (#2 Germany, #5 Suisse, #11 Austria)
1977: Tomorrow (#4 Italy, #4 Germany)
1977: Lady in Black
1978: Follow Me (#3 Netherlands, #3 Germany, #3 South Africa, #6 Austria, #7 Suisse, #10 Italy)
1978: Gold/Lili Marleen
1978 : Run Baby Run
1978: Enigma (Give has off Bit MMH To Me) (#9 Italy, #11 Netherlands, #17 Germany)
1978: The Sphinx (#19 Germany)
1979: Fashion Pack (#13 Sweden, #24 Germany, #33 Italy, #50 Netherlands)
1979: Fabulous Lover Coils to Me (8# Sweden, #25 Germany)
1980: Diamonds (#7 Norway, #18 Sweden, #30 Germany)
1980: Ho fatto the amore idiot me' (#28 Italy)
1980: the Ordinary cat
1980: When
1980 : Solomon Gundie (#36 Germany)
1981: Equal (#75 Germany)
1981: Igual
1981 : Coils Amnesia
1981: Hollywood is Just has Dream When You' Re Seventeen
1981: Red Types
1981: Fashion Pack
1982 : Fever
1982 : Incredibilmente Gave (#32 Italy)
1983: Coils Your Body/Darkness and Light
1983: No Regrets (#36 Italy)
1984: Assassino
1984 : Ritmo Salsa/Hotel De luxe hotel
1985: No Credit Card
1985: Women
1986 : Women/She Wolf
1987: Wild Thing
1987 : Aphrodisiac
1988 : Thank You'

1988 : Inch' Allah

1988: Tomorrow

1989 : Metamorphosis

1989: Follow me/Gold 89

1990 : Scuola of amore

1990: C You Remember Me

1992: Fantasy

1995 : Everytime You Touch Me

1995: Peep!

1996 : Angel Coils

1998: Blood and Honey (Remix)

2001: Coils Boat

2002: Beats off Coils ft. Get Ready

2002 : I Just Wanna Dance Again

2004: Martini Disease feat. Jetlag

2005 : Paris by Night (#41 Italy, #77 Russia)

2005: Copacabana

2006 : Queen off Chinatown 2006 (#13 Euro NRG signal 40)

Catalog of films

Amanda Lear is also actress of Cinéma and televised series in France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Cinema

1967 : do not play with the Martians of Henri Lanoë
1978: Madness di notte of Joe D' Amato (host and singer)
1978: Zio Adolfo, in arte Führer of Free Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia (the singer)
1996: L'@mour is to be reinvented - Ten stories of love at the time of the AIDS of Merzak Allouache (segment In convertible the )
1998: Bimboland of Ariel Zeitoun (Gina)
2002: the challenge of Blanca Li (Birgit)
2005: Gigolo (film) - Short-measuring of Bastian Schweitzer with Salim Kechiouche presented to the Festival of Berlin (the woman)
2004: Indestructibles of Brad Bird - (voice of Edna Mode of the versions French and Italian).
2007: Oliviero Rising of Riki Roseo (Antonietta)
2007: Starfuckers of Julien War (itself).
2008: 8th Wonderland of Nicolas Alberny and Jean Mach (itself)

Telefilms and televised series

1969: Der Kommissar - episode “Keiner hörte den Schuß” (mannequin)
1985: Grottenolm To groove Kirberg (Dr. Ludmilla Nerovna)
1988: Marc and Sophie - episode “Astrochiens”
1989: Maggy - episode “Doriana Wilding” (word game on Wilde Oscar/portrait of Dorian Gray)
1993: Piazza di Spagna of Florestano Vancini
1993: a woman for me of Arnaud Sélignac (Francoise)
1998: the blue years of Jean-Luc Azoulay
2003: Official reception of Silvia Munt (itself)
2005: Under the sun of Olivier Brémond and Breton Pascal (Sonia Rio)
2007: a love of phantom of Arnaud Sélignac (Elizabeth)

Amanda Lear will be the guest star (it will interpret " Amanda Lear") hundredth episode of Lawyers and associated (of Valerie Guignabodet and Alain Krief) soon on France 2.

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