Amanda Lear was born on November 18, 1946 in Hong Kong, is a French model, adult model, polyglot, painter, novelist, actress, media personality, composer, lyricist, singer and gay icon who was a Disco Queen in Continental Europe, the Eastern Bloc and most other parts of the world in the mid 1970s to the early 1980s.

She first came to the public's attention as the fetishistically clad model on the cover of Roxy Music's album For Your Pleasure in 1973.

In 2001, a year after having tragically lost her husband of twenty-one years in a much publicised accident, she threw herself back into work and released the aptly titled album Heart.

It was obvious that this was a serious effort with Lear's own heart and soul involved and both time and money invested in the project by record company Le Marais Prod.

The album offered club-friendly tracks like "I Just Wanna Dance Again", remixed by the likes of French electro-house DJ Laurent Wolf, Pumpin' Dolls and Junior Vasquez, and cult seventies TV theme song "The Love Boat", both issued as singles.