Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear – “Le Crazy Horse de Paris” Show Paris Premiere – Arrivals – Crazy Horse – Paris, France – Keywords: – 0 – – Photo Credit: Pixplanete / PR Photos
Birth Name: Alain Maurice Louis René Tapp
Place of Birth: Saigon, French Indochina (now Vietnam)
Date of Birth: 18 June, 1939
Ethnicity: publicly unclear
Amanda Lear is a French actress, model, singer, lyricist, painter, and television presenter. She gained European success from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s as a disco music star.
Amanda’s origins are unclear, with her herself providing different information about her birth date and place, birth gender, names and nationalities of her parents, and the location of her upbringing.
Her surname is from her first husband, Paul Morgan Lear, a Scottish architecture student.
Amanda’s father possibly was André Tapp, a retired Captain of the French army, with British ancestry.
Amanda’s mother background is usually described as Russian-Asian.
Amanda speaks French, English, and Italian fluently.
Source: Birth certificate of Amanda Lear – http://www.astro.com
“Amanda’s father was André Tapp, a retired Captain of the French army, with British ancestry.”
Okay, so… why is her ancestry unclear?
I should have written “Amanda’s father was possibly/evidently/likely André Tapp”