She went to Paris in the 1930s and in 1938 and 1939 made her breakthrough with songs like Sombreros et mantilles and J'attendrai (literally: "I shall wait").
Ketty Lester | Rina Ketty | Rina Uchiyama | Rina Schenfeld | Rina Aiuchi | Ada Apa Dengan Rina |
His first great successes dated to the end of the 1930s, and were his adaptations of foreign-language songs into French (J'attendrai, to music by the Italian composer Dino Olivieri, in 1938, sung by Rina Ketty ; Sur les quais du vieux Paris, to music by the German composer Ralph Erwin, the first success of the singer Lucienne Delyle, in 1939).