关于Amanda Lear的小传可能有几百个版本,但无论野史正史考证,Amanda Lear 都是出身在一个混裔的家庭。从她的父母双方归结下来的血统可以罗列为英国,法国,俄国,越南,中国,也许还要再加上印度尼西亚。下面一个关键性问题就出现了分叉。她的出生日期可能是从1936到1946任何一年。所以今天她也许是59岁,也有可能是69岁。从她的照片上你都不会对任何一种年龄质疑,因为她总是充满活力,或者人工的斧凿,或者地驻颜有术地青春长留。最常见的消息是说她是出生在香港,当然象河内这样东方神秘而欧风盛行的地方也榜上有名。又或者更加极端一点的消息说出生证上根本没有Amanda Lear这样一个人,Alain Tapp或许是填补姓名栏的唯一名字.
她身上的称谓有很多,譬如模特、艺术家、画家、歌唱家...而另一些时候,Amanda Lear则更多的被称为“谁谁谁”的情人。让我们抛开这些这一切,颠起脚尖去窥视一下她的神秘之处吧。困绕Amanda Lear迷几十年的神秘之处是;Amanda Lear,那个金发而妖娆的美丽尤物,究竟是神秘伊甸园里的夏娃,还是一个偷食禁果的男子?她好像是一缕流浪的风,在喧嚣的都市中肆意游荡,不经意间确闪出一缕亮光,照亮整个寂静而又虚伪的夜空,当世界为之喝彩时,它却悄然隐退在自己燃尽后的躯壳里睡去......
Amanda Lear first surfaced in the early '70s as a fetishistically clothed album-cover model for Roxy Music. She was said to be a transsexual but, as she told Interview magazine, that was just a ruse dreamed up by her sponsor, David Bowie, to draw attention. Her importance to disco fans, however, began in 1977, when she recorded I Am a Photograph in Germany with production help from Tony Monn. I Am a Photograph is the first of six sleazy, hard-to-find albums in which she flaunts a voice so heavy with low notes it makes one wonder if she really isn't a man after all. But Lear's slow notes are simply an exaggeration of the whiskey-voiced sultriness created by Marlene Dietrich. That isn't to say, however, that Lear's lyrics — or the music's inverted proportions — don't exploit her mythology as a kinky concoction to the bursting point.