The life of Amanda Lear is a myth … to which she has largely contributed! And his true identity has always been questioned. How old is she really? Was she born man? So many questions that still shape his character today.
Will we really have the truth about the identity of Amanda Lear? An exciting documentary from Arte, entitled Call me misstries to unravel the mystery of the star. Would she be born man under another name? Clues suggest that it could actually be called Piki from Oslo, transgender artist with little notoriety in Germany in the 60s …
Could Amanda Lear and Oslo Peki be the same person?
Singer, actress, presenter, model, painter… Amanda Lear has always been multiple. Both in his activities, and in his identity elsewhere. All his life has been punctuated by questions about his age, real origins and even his gender. She gave several dates of birth, to the point of getting lost herself and having concerns with the pension fund. But, questioned by Eric Dahan, for Release In 2010, she then presented her passport to him with her date of birth: 1950, in Saigon.
In Arte’s documentary, it’s not just her real age that questions. His genre too. The one who was the Muse of Savaldor Dali has been associated since 1969 in Oslo Peki. That year, Le Parisien liberated Published an article on this 27 -year -old young woman stopped for providing drugs to Rolling Stones. “”Her name is Amanda Lear, better known, writes the daily, under the name of Oslo Peki“, Relates the documentary, archive photos for proof.
And this famous Oslo Peki would be a transgender artist of Eurasian origin … “Scene name of a certain Alain TAPP (The supposed real birth name of Amanda Lear according to a tenacious legend, editor’s note) ? Nothing to do with him she says “, Add the documentary. The report does not fail to add that it denies having the slightest link with the transgender artists of that time, “These men returned from a trip to Morocco with other skins …“”
This loved one who gives his screw on the identity of Amanda Lear
Confirmed statements by Galia Salimo for Arte. “Peki of Olso I heard about it, let’s be frank. I heard about it compared to Amanda. But I saw the photos … it has nothing to do … but it is Not the same, finally I do not believe it.she said.
However, when Amanda Lear was made knight of the arts and letters in 2006, the Minister of Culture at the time decorated it as an Amanda Tapp, which could therefore be his real name. Questioned by Marc-Olivier Fogiel on the subject in stride, the main interested party had then dodged the answer …
Is Amanda Lear a man? She is playing the rumor
All his life, Amanda Lear cultivated the myth of her identity. Until the rumor runs on the advice of Salvador Dali. “Let you say that you are a man (…) We will make you even more court”would have advised him the artist. “Forty years ago, the ‘neither man nor woman’ intrigued a lot, we started to discover all this, but this rumor served me”had also declared the singer to Point.
In January 2024, she even confessed that the construction of this character had served her a lot. “It helped me a lot. I thank them elsewhere. I owe them everything to these people, who for some still continue today (…) So let’s go advertising, rumors …”she said to 50 ‘inside. What go in the direction of Arte’s documentary: “Amanda has froze anything from her past, she mixed countries, and in the years, she multiplied them and then erased the traces. She scraped the tracks that could have led to her “.
