Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, painter, television presenter, actress and former model.

Despite Lear herself contradicting transsexual rumours already in the 1970s and explaining they were a part of strategy to draw public attention, they have persisted to date. When asked by Carmen Thomas in a 1976 interview whether it was true that she was born a male, Lear replied that it was a crazy idea from some journalist. She would later claim in Interview magazine that it was David Bowie who started the rumour. She would also address these rumours in her songs Fabulous and Im a Mistery . Despite some sources claiming her transsexual background is an open secret, she would always flatly deny it, even when confronted by the Dal biographer Ian Gibson during a TV show. However, an excerpt from an article from an Italian newspaper surfaced online in November 2011, including a reproduction of a copy of Lears birth certificate, which states that she was born Alain Maurice Louis Ren Tap onJune 1939 in Saigon, and a picture of Lear as a young man.

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