Amanda Lear has a mysterious birthplace. AKA Amanda Tapp, was born in Hong Kong (or in Saigon) November 18, 1939 (although some speculate on June 18, 1946)
At the peak of the disco era in the late 1970s, Amanda Lear, who had established herself as a singer after 15 years of being a Vogue model and muse to everyone from Salvador Dalí to Bryan Ferry, had a bone to pick. “Disco music is a fantastic medium, and it’s a pity not to use it intelligently:
She came to notoriety in 1973, after having posed as a fetish model on the cover of Roxy Music's album For Your Pleasure, thanks to which she begins the love story with David Bowie, who drove her to the showbiz. 
When Bowie got struck by her beauty, Amanda is just a young model. “He fell in love with a photo of me. I had posed for the cover of a Roxy Music record. It was 1973: I was a bit of a Hitchcockian, aggressive and with a panther on a leash. Bowie saw that photo and stared at me. He wanted to know me. " Amanda cannot resist the charm of the rockstar and the two begin a relationship.
It was very stimulating, not only sexually but also culturally. I couldn't believe he didn't know the movie director Fritz Lang so, as a gift for his first birthday together, I took him to see Metropolis, in a suburban cinema. "
The love story between Amanda Lear and David Bowie has been fueled in this way for two splendid years: with Lear's tales of surrealism and German directors, while he initiates her into singing, paying for her lessons.
The man with the most make-up I've slept with and the first to believe in me as an artist. He was tender, attractive, intelligent, but also tormented. I went with him from London to New York. And then in Berlin. In the end I got tired of following him. Besides, he was addicted to drugs, it wasn't easy. However, I owe him a lot. It was peculiar: mysterious, reserved. I'll never forget it. It has upset my life. "
Amanda grows up with the conviction of being "ugly" because far from the beauty standard of that period,like Brigitte Bardot to be clear. Amanda is too tall, too thin, flat breasts, asian eyes, marked cheekbones and a mouth too big for the aesthetic canons of the 50s. Thanks to the change of pace imposed by Françoise Hardy everything is upset in a short time and Amanda Lear, just twenty, become a model.
"However, I owe him a lot. It was he who told me: You have an exceptional voice, you have to sing". I would never have thought of it. But he really believes in it. He paid me singing and dancing courses. Then I started singing with him, I learned a lot. In the end, it was in Germany that I recorded my first album. And there we parted"."At that time David was still with his wife Angie I didn't even know. A few days later I was at my house with Bowie. The phone rings and it was her. She says to me: "I'm David's wife, will you pass it on to me?" There I discovered Angela. However their marriage was ending."
Throughout her life, Amanda Lear has had many important flirts and relationships and has never hidden that she is attracted to men much younger than her. In addition to David Bowie and Salvador Dalì, she had a relationship with the Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, with Brian Ferry (Roxy Music) and, more recently with actor Anthony Hornez, with the model Manuel Caselle and with the Venezuelan Ricardo Perna. She has been married since 1965 to Morgan Paul Lear (from whom she kept her surname).
