Original sentence: Amanda was probably born in 1939 in Provence, France or Saigon from an English/French father who served for the French army in Indochina and an Asian/Russian mother.At the age of 16, Amanda went to Paris to study painting and then in 1964 to the famous St Martins School in London.His sex change operation, carried out in Casablanca, was probably paid for by Salvador Dali.One says that Dali met Peki at Le Carrousel, a transvestite revue in Paris, in 1959.Peki d'Oslo was the stage-name for Alain Tapp, who later would become Amanda Lear.The transexuality of Amanda looked attractive to the eye of Salvador Dali when she was publicly noticed in 1960 as an exotic showgirl and stripper known as “Peki d’Oslo”.“Dali was a genius who liked ambiguity and he used to talk to women as they were men”