Place the face (naughty)!
Update: Goed kennelijk is het nog steeds te makkelijk. Toch nog enige uitleg voor de bezoekers die niet net zoals ArchEnemy in de middeleeuwen zijn geboren.
Amanda Lear has always been very enigmatic about her youth. She was probably born Alain Tapp in Saigon (or France) in 1939, but it might have been Hong Kong in 1941 or 1945 or even (as she now claims) November 1948. She's apparently of mixed parentage, at various times she's claimed to have British, French and Indonesian fathers, and English and Russo-Oriental mothers. The only thing really certain is that she was destined to become another of the gorgeous young transsexuals to emerge in France during the '60's, and was later was an icon of the 1970s'.
After an education [supposedly] in Switzerland and England, by 1959 at latest Amanda had moved to France - still a tall, gangly and rather Asian looking boy. Radically transformed by hormones and a nose job, she first became publicly noticed in 1960 when working as an exotic showgirl and stripper known as Peki d'Oslo at the Le Carrousel revue in Paris. Her looks attracted the eye of Salvador Dali, and she was to became his regular companion for many years.
In 1963 she had her sex change operation, carried out in Casablanca by Dr Bourou, it was probably paid for by Salvador Dali. She soon afterwards moved to England where she soon became part of the trendy "Chelsea Girl" set. Her hair now a bleached blond, in 1965 she was signed by a model agency and was soon catwalking for top designers and appearing on magazine covers, but her modelling career was eventually to be hampered by rumours of her transsexuality.
In early 1973 Bryan Ferry saw the supposedly 25-year old (making her pre-teen in her showgirl days!) Amanda on stage modelling a collection for fashion designer Ossie Clarke, and invited her to feature as the cover girl for Roxy Music's new album "For Your Pleasure". Amanda was soon mixing with the likes of the Rolling Stones and Elton John, and in 1974 met David Bowie and became one of several beautiful transsexual women (Romy Haag was another) featuring large in his love life at that time, indeed they lived together for a year and he is one of her few admitted "lovers".
Oh ja en ze zong af en toe dus ook, zoals hier
