Amanda Lear

Despite frequent album releases Amanda Lear failed to achieve success on charts with her music. She relocated to Paris at the end of elementary school to study at Académie des Beaux-Arts before joining Central Saint Martins in London in 1964. Both the single and the album failed to enter any mainstream charts.

Lear is also a widely recognized gay icon. In the mid-1980s Lear positioned herself as one of the leading media personalities in mainland Europe especially in Italy and in France where Amanda Lear hosted many popular TV shows. Around that time Amanda Lear met the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and would remain his closest friend and muse for the next 15 years.