Rosita Serrano
Rosita Serrano (actually Maria Martha Esther Aldunate del Campo, born June 10, 1914 in Viña del Mar, Chile, † April 6, 1997 in Santiago de Chile, Chile ) was a Chilean singer and actress, to her greatest successes in Germany in was able to record 1930s and early 1940s. Because of her bell-like voice, she received the nickname " Chilean Nightingale".
Life
Rosita Serrano was the daughter of diplomats Héctor Aldunate and the opera singer Sofia del Campo, with whom she moved in the 1930s to Europe. After she had initially lived in Portugal and France, she moved to Berlin in 1936 about. She appeared there in the conservatory and in the Metropolitan Theatre and wowed the audience with Chilean folk songs. The German composer Peter Kreuder she discovered and she got a record deal Telefunken. From now on she sang mainly in German language and songs like " Red Poppies " ( Red Poppy, why do you welkst already? ), "Good music ", " Kiss me, please, please, kiss me ", " And the Music plays to, " " Uncle Jonathan ", and " The Little Love birds " were successful hits. In 1938 she got roles in films such as Revue Bel Ami, It lights the stars, The wise mother and heartfelt joy - heartbreak. She also went with two of the then most successful dance orchestra - Kurt Hohenberger and Teddy Stauffer - on tour. In 1939, she got under intercession of Joseph Goebbels appearances on the radio program " request concert for the Wehrmacht ." In 1940, their recording of the classic " La Paloma ", in Wolfgang Petersen's movie Das Boot and 1993 in the successful Isabel Allende adaptation found, for example, 1981 The haunted house use.
1943 ended a warrant their careers. During a concert tour in Sweden, she was denounced in Germany for spying. In reality, however, she has been helping Jewish refugees with the proceeds from a charity event. Rosita Serrano did not return to Germany and thus escaped their arrest. Her songs and movies were to the end of the war on the black list of the Nazi regime. From Sweden they initially returned to Chile and then tried to make in the U.S. career. Since they also had German songs in her repertoire, she was exposed to many attacks.
In 1951 she returned to Germany, but had only moderate success. She appeared in the German films " Dark Eyes " and " Season in Salzburg" with and after she was booed in 1953 at the Berlin Sports Palace, the Telefunken announced a record deal. In the following years she had only a few appearances in the German entertainment programs. A comeback attempt in 1957 on a tour with a newly formed band under their old musical companion Kurt Hohenberger had only moderate success. In 1961 she reached with the single There were two royal children number 39 in the German charts.
1989, the press reported that Rosita Serrano lived in osthessischen Hohenroda. However, their last days she spent in the municipality of La Reina, Santiago de Chile. There she died in 1997 then in extreme poverty.