Amanda Lear

Was once engaged to Roxy Music lead singer Bryan Ferry.

Is the model with the black panther on the cover of the Roxy Music album, "For Your Pleasure."

During the 60s painter Salvador Dal was her companion

Now lives in south of France

Amanda Lear was told by her mentor Salvador Dal to pretend to be man. The rumor still goes on today and Amanda played with it throughout her career.

Amanda was born in Hong Kong from an English-French father and a Asian-Russian mother. She later moved to Europe. She studied at the Saint Martins college in London and later became a successful singer. Besides being Salvador Dals protge she also became David Bowie s lover.

She has had a successful career in Italian tv. Amongst her tv programs "Premiatissima" , "Viva le donne" (with Andrea Giordana ), "Il Brutto anatroccolo", "Cocktail damore" (with Balestri).

Beginning early in her career, Amanda Lear was rumoured to be transsexual. This is absolutely untrue but the rumour lingers on today.

She is the voice of Edna E Mode, with her funny French accent, in the Italian dubbed version of The Incredibles .

Was formerly in a relationship with Manuel Casella from 2002 to 2008.

(January 2006) In the jury of the Italian version of the TV show"Dancing with the star".