Amanda Lear (born November 18, 1946 in Hong Kong) is a singer and was a disco queen in the 1970s. She was engaged to the lead singer of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry. She was also the model on the cover of the Roxy Music album For Your Pleasure .
During the 1960s painter Salvador Dali was her companion and although she was Dali's protege she also became David Bowie's lover. In 1979, she married the aristocrat Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villele , French writer Roger Peyrefitte's lover and adoptive son. Malagnac, aged 51, perished in a fire in the couple's home in Saint-Etienne-du-Grès near Avignon on December 17, 2000.
Nowadays she resides in Southern France.
Some of her hits
- Diamonds
- Enigma (Give a bit ot mmh to me)
- Fashion Pack (Studio 54)
- Follow Me
- Queen of China-Town
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