- In her native Chile, where she spent the last years of her life, the public never forgave her for performing in Nazi Germany.
- Her mother was the famous singer Sofia del Campo.
- Between film shoots, she went on tour with two popular dance orchestras, one led by Kurt Hohenberger and the other by Teddy Stauffer.
- Rosita Serrano went to Berlin with her mother at the beginning of 1937 where she was able to gain a foothold as a singer.
- In 1940 she recorded the very popular song La Paloma, heard throughout Germany.
- Some of her songs were recorded with a few words whispered or spoken, and she occasionally emphasized words with a gritty, growling jazz style reminiscent of African-American blues singer Ethel Waters.
- Her voice style was mainly operatic coloratura soprano with a deep, fast vibrato. She added frequent embellishments such as soaring arpeggiation and melisma.
- She was a pitch-perfect whistler in the manner of Bing Crosby.
- When she got a role in the movie "Es leuchten die Sterne" (1938) she had her great breakthrough.
- The songs she recorded in German and Spanish varied from folk to pop, including flamenco, rumba, tango and mambo.
- But in 1943 she left Germany of a sudden and went to Sweden, because of political reason in all probability.
- After that her popularity took off. She had different appearances in TV talk shows in the next decades but the glorious time from earlier days was over.
- In 1951 she returned to the country of her successes and continued her singing career. Morever she also took part in two more movies - "Schwarze Augen" (1951) and "Saison in Salzburg" (1952).
- Records praised her as the Chilean Nightingale. Triumphes followed on different stages and with her great German tour.
- Due to the intercession of Minister Joseph Goebbels, she got gigs in the radio show Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht (musical request programme for the Wehrmacht).
- With her mother Sofía del Campo who was a popular opera singer she moved to Europe in the early 1930s. Initially they lived in Portugal and France but by 1936 they moved to Berlin.
- By 1938 she received roles in the revue films as: Es leuchten die Sterne (1938) and Bel Ami (1939).
- In Germany she was discovered by German composer Peter Kreuder who managed that she got a record contract at the German Telefunken. Henceforth she performed in the German language including popular songs like Roter Mohn (Red poppy), Schön die Musik (Beautiful Music), Küß mich, bitte, bitte, küß mich (Kiss me, please, please kiss me), Und die Musik spielt dazu (And the Music plays to it), Der Onkel Jonathan (The uncle Jonathan), and Der kleine Liebesvogel (The little love bird).
- Her father Héctor Aldunate was in the diplomatic service.
- Serrano had her first successes in the Wintergarten and the Metropol Theater where she performed Chilean folk songs.
- In 1951, she went to West Germany to take part in the film Schwarze Augen (Dark Eyes), in which she played a Cuban singer, and the next year she sang in the film Saison in Salzburg. Beyond these appearances, she saw little success in Germany, her comeback attempt ending with a poorly received tour with Kurt Hohenberger in 1957.
- In 1943 while on tour in Sweden, Serrano was accused by Germany of being a spy-she had donated a benefit performance to Jewish refugees. Rather than returning to Germany to be arrested, she traveled to Chile. Her songs were subsequently banned in Nazi Germany.
- Serrano attempted a tour in the United States, but her German repertoire was not popular.
- She appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1950, but little came of the publicity.
- Serrano's performance of La Paloma was used in the 1981 film Das Boot by Wolfgang Petersen, and in the 1993 production of the film The House of the Spirits, after the novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende.
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