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Amanda Lear is a French model, singer, lyricist, TV host, actress, and painter. Her biography includes contested facts such as her birth date, which is cited as November 18, 1939, among other years, and her birthplace, which may be Hong Kong, Saigon, or Hanoi. The details surrounding her assigned gender at birth, as well as the names and nationalities of her parents—her father being French-English and her mother Asian-Russian—are also subjects of debate. Lear was raised in the South of France before moving to Paris to pursue a career in painting. She became a prominent model and a fixture of the mid-1960s Swinging London, being recognized as one of Salvador Dalí's muses, who reportedly inspired her stage name, "L'Amant de Dalí" (Dalí's lover). In 1966, she dated Brian Jones and was briefly engaged to Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music, for whom she posed as "the lady with the panther" on the cover of their second album in 1973. Following a brief affair, Ferry encouraged her to pursue a singing career. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, Lear achieved success as a disco queen, selling millions of albums primarily in Continental Europe and Scandinavia. To captivate her audience, she played into rumors about her assigned gender at birth—an issue that fascinated Salvador Dalí, whom she regarded as her spiritual

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