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Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear is a French singer, songwriter, painter, television presenter, actress and former model.
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entertainment · French singer, actress, television presenter · painter · singer · actor · model · lyricist · film actor · television presenter · musician · also Amanda Lear, Amanda Tapp, Lear
Born 18 June 1939 · Q454010
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2026· 4 entries
Published video “Your Yellow Py Jama”.
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Published video “Look At Her Dancing”.
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Published video “When I Was Your Favourite Singer (Chris Cox Remix)”.
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2025· 8 entries
Published video “Strangers In The Night”.
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Published video “Amour(s)”.
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Published video “Le silence”.
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Published video “Mon amour triste”.
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Published video “Done With Love”.
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Published video “Rendez-vous”.
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Published video “When I Was Your Favourite Singer (Chris Cox Remix - Extended)”.
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Released album “Looking Back”.
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2023· 1 entry
Amanda Lear's hit "Follow Me" plays as soundtrack for Chanel's Coco Mademoiselle commercial
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2021· 3 entries
Released album “Tuberose”.
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Published video “Amanda Lear - More (Mondo Cane Remix) [Official Music Video]”.
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Appears in TV drama Camping Paradis in France
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2020· 1 entry
Lear starred in Si Muore Solo Da Vivi directed by Alberto Rizzi and in Miss directed by Ruben Alves
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2019· 1 entry
Lear joined the judging panel of the Italian TV show Sanremo Young on Rai 1
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2018· 1 entry
Worked on the dubbing for French and Italian versions of Incredibles 2, hosted the TV show Voulez-vous coucher avec moi
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2017· 3 entries
Published video “Amanda Lear - Catwalk (Country Club Martini Crew Remix) (Official video)”.
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Published video “Amanda Lear - Catwalk (7th Heaven Remix Preview)”.
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Published video “Amanda Lear - Catwalk [Official Music Video]”.
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2016· 8 entries
Published video “Amanda Lear - Let Me Entertain You [Official Music Video]”.
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Published video “Amanda Lear - Couleurs [Official Music Video]”.
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Published video “Amanda Lear - Fashion Pack [Official Dvd Video ]”.
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Published video “Amanda Lear - La belle vie (Teaser)”.
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Published video “Amanda Lear - Good to be bad [Official Music Video]”.
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Published video “Amanda Lear - Can't Take My Eyes Off You [Official Dvd Video]”.
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Released album “Let Me Entertain You”.
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At the Théâtre de la Michodière and was subsequently taken on tour across France
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2015· 1 entry
Recorded the duet "Mai più" with Italian singer Gianluca De Rubertis for his album L'universo elegante
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “My Happiness”.
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2013· 1 entry
Started playing the leading part in the play Divina at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “I Don't Like Disco”.
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2010· 4 entries
Released ep “I'm Coming Up”.
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Released album “Brief Encounters Reloaded”.
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Released album “...Give A Bit Of Mmh To Me”.
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Released album “My French Italian Songbook”.
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2009· 4 entries
Released album “Brand New Love Affair”.
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Released album “Brief Encounters”.
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Lear accepted the part of Cécile in the comedy Panique au ministère, which debuted at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris
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Released album “Brief Encounters Acoustique”.
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2008· 4 entries
Released album “My Baby Just Cares for Me”.
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Hosted several TV shows in Italy and France
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Released album “Disco Queen of the Wild 70's”.
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And 2011 and a 2016 article in La Stampa included alleged passport details and an alleged reproduction of a copy of Lear's birth certificate, which states that she was born and given a masculine name on 18 June 1939 in S
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “The Sphinx”.
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Released album “With Love”.
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Released album “Forever Glam !”.
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Lear opened an art exhibition in New York, titled Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's Amanda Lear, and was decorated with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres in reco
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “Sings Evergreens”.
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The singer became a judge on Ballando con le stelle, the Italian version of Dancing with the Stars, and released two dance singles, "Paris by Night" and the remake of Barry Manilow's "Copacabana", as well as two compilat
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Released album “Paris by Night: Greatest Hits”.
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “The Queen Is... Amanda”.
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “Living Legend”.
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Released album “The Lady in Black”.
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Released album “Tendance”.
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2002· 7 entries
Released album “I Am a Photograph / Sweet Revenge”.
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Released album “Never Trust a Pretty Face / Diamonds for Breakfast”.
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Released album “Follow Me: The Greatest Hits”.
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Lear starred in Le Défi, a musical movie written and directed by choreographer Blanca Li about an 18-year-old dropout who dreams of becoming a star in breakdancing and the ensuing conflicts with his conservative mother
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Released album “Tam-Tam / Secret Passion”.
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Released album “Je t'aime”.
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Released album “Divin Amanda”.
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “Heart”.
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Released album “28 Golden Hits”.
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Released album “I'm a Mistery: The Whole Story”.
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Released album “Essential”.
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Made of Blood & Honey”.
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Queen of Chinatown”.
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Released album “Amanda '98 - Follow Me Back In My Arms”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Amanda Lear”.
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1996· 1 entry
As a model for Paco Rabanne during an annual charity event Life Ball
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “Alter Ego”.
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Released album “Hits and More”.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “Indovina chi sono”.
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Modelled for the fashion house Grès in Paris and again for Thierry Mugler in Berlin the following year
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1993· 4 entries
Released album “Télégramme”.
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Released album “Cadavrexquis”.
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Released album “Golden Stars”.
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And featured heavily club-oriented material, including "Fantasy" and re-recordings of three songs from the disco era
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “The Collection”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “The ★ Collection”.
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1990· 3 entries
Released an up-tempo, promotional-only single, "Do You Remember Me
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Released album “Uomini più uomini”.
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Released album “Follow Me”.
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1989· 3 entries
Released album “Tant qu'il y aura des hommes”.
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DJ Ian Levine remixed "Follow Me" and "Gold" in a Hi-NRG fashion, while Lear hosted Ars Amanda on Rai 3, an Italian chat show where she interviewed both Italian and international celebrities and politicians in bed
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Released album “Super 20”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Поет Аманда Лир”.
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “Secret Passion”.
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1985· 1 entry
Released ep “AL”.
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1984· 1 entry
Followed by "No Credit Card" and "Women" in 1985
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Tam-Tam”.
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1982· 2 entries
Another Italian language single, the ballad "Incredibilmente donna", was released on the greatest hits compilation Ieri, oggi
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Released album “Ieri, Oggi”.
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “Incognito”.
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When Lear had become increasingly uncomfortable with the expectations and pressures of the music business in general and her own record label in particular
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1980· 3 entries
Released ep “Amanda Lear”.
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Released album “Diamonds for Breakfast”.
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Released ep “La chat de gouttière”.
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1979· 3 entries
Released album “Golden Hits”.
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Released album “Nunca confies en una cara bonita”.
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Released album “Never Trust a Pretty Face”.
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1978· 4 entries
Released album “Sweet Revenge”.
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Lear and Monn teamed for Never Trust a Pretty Face
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Lear posed nude for Playboy
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Lear continued her line of disco hits with Sweet Revenge, an album that opens with a concept medley about a Faustian fairy tale of a girl who sells her soul to the devil for fame and fortune, and in her eventual revenge
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1977· 3 entries
Released album “I Am a Photograph”.
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Was recorded in Munich with most songs composed by Monn who later produced majority of her material in the disco era
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Released album “Pretty Boys”.
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1976· 2 entries
Lear stated that it was "a crazy idea from some journalist" and later claimed that the rumour had been started by Dalí or even herself
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“a crazy idea from some journalist”
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1974· 1 entry
Disillusioned by a shallow and conservative fashion industry and encouraged by her boyfriend Bowie, who paid for singing and dancing lessons, Lear decided to launch a career in music
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1971· 1 entry
Lear modelled for a special Christmas issue of the French edition of Vogue, edited entirely by Salvador Dalí, and was photographed by David Bailey
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1967· 2 entries
And in 1968 played a minor role in the French comedy film Ne jouez pas avec les Martiens and also in the 1968 British psychedelic film Wonderwall
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By the police with drugs belonging to the Rolling Stones
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1965· 1 entry
Lear moved to London and began working as a cabaret artist
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1963· 1 entry
Carried out by Georges Burou and also that Dalí invented the stage name for her, a pun of the Catalan language "L'Amant de Dalí" ('Dalí's lover') ; this is contradicted by the fact that Lear's surname is a real one that
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1939· 2 entries
Born 1939-06-18.
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Whatever she might declare to the contrary
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