- Carmen Barros was known for being the first to portray the character Carmela in the Isidora Aguirre play 'La pérgola de las flores' in 1960.
- In 2015, she starred alongside Gloria Münchmeyer, Ana Reeves, and Consuelo Holzapfel in the television series Los años dorados , directed by Ricardo Vicuña . This role earned her a nomination at the Caleuche Awards for Best Leading Actress in a TV Series in 2016.
- Her brother was the one who spurred her interest in theater. He was an actor and creator of the Pocket Theater, and invited her to participate in the play Carlos y Ana, which she starred in.
- She worked at Radio Agricultura, Corporación, and Minería.
- She also worked with the writer Luis Alberto Heiremans, combining her talents for singing and the theater.
- Barros had the opportunity to become an international opera star. She entered the Trial Theater of the Catholic University and was invited to participate in Esta Señorita Trini, which was the prelude to La pérgola de las flores.
- In 1965 she had a musical group, Los Gatos, which was very successful.
- Her first series was Los títeres (1984), which together with her role on El amor está de moda (1995) was her greatest pride.
- After the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, she went to Kenya and worked as a UN official for nine years.
- When her father was named ambassador to Italy she went to Italy with her husband and three children to see what happened there. She continued with her "operatic" work, went to live in Vienna, and was invited to take a leading role in the Opera of Brussels, Belgium.
- Barros' daughter, Loreto Amunátegui Barros, was governor of Chacabuco Province from 2000 to 2006.
- When she was 14, her father was assigned as Chilean ambassador to Germany, and that change marked her life. As a counterpoint, the cultural opportunities of Berlin influenced her future career: concerts, opera, theater. She tried to resume her basic education, in a German school, but could not stand being in a co-educational one, so she chose to retire and take private classes at home. However, she never finished her studies.
- At age 19, Barros returned to Chile and she was offered to sing on the radio. The journalist Santiago del Campo gave her the pseudonym Marianela.
- She lived between Santiago, other cities of the country, Peru, and Europe, and learned to speak German before Spanish.
- Carmen Barros was a Chilean actress and singer of jazz, popular music, and opera.
- She was also a professor of acting perception, diction, and vocal projection, and a theater and opera director.
- In 1946, when a company of New York's Metropolitan Opera House came to Chile with the Beethoven opera Fidelio, Barros was invited to participate. It was one of the great successes of the Municipal Theater. She was even invited to go to New York, but did not dare; she had been outside the country for too long.
- She attended the French Nuns, a women's college where she was the "wild card" of the course for any artistic competition involving dancing or acting.
- Because of her father's military profession, which caused him to be sent on missions in Germany, as well as to different garrisons in the country, Carmen never stayed more than seven months at one school.
- In 2010, she received the APES Award for her artistic career.
- On January 24, 1984, her son Jaime Amunátegui Barros married Jacqueline Pinochet Hiriart - youngest daughter of the dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte and Lucía Hiriart - in the Presidential Palace of Cerro Castillo. Carmen Barros decided not to attend her son's wedding and opted to travel to Mexico. Barros was prohibited by the Pinochet family, specifically by Jacqueline, from approaching her three grandchildren.
- The 1960s marked the arrival of television, and the actress starred there in a new encounter between acting and singing, this time with Los Gatos , a group she formed between 1964 and 1968, with Octavio Espinoza, Gonzalo Herranz and Carlos Larraín, and who performed on the program El Tejado Musical on Channel 13 .
- Barros debuted as a composer in the play Esta Señorita Trini (1958) at the Teatro Ensayo of the Catholic University, recognized as the first Chilean musical comedy. She created it together with Luis Alberto Heiremans, in which she is the author of the music, with arrangements by the pianist and orchestra director Pedro Mesías.
- In 2016, Barros told CNN Chile that her daughter-in-law Pinochet Hiriart (youngest daughter of the dictator Augusto Pinochet) "believed that I was a communist for being an artist.".
- Carmen Barros defined herself as a Bacheletista - a supporter of President Michelle Bachelet.
- In January 2020, she received the Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit for her outstanding career and contribution to culture and art as an actress, singer, teacher, and pioneer of Chilean musical theater.
- In 2017 she was honored as a Distinguished Public Person by the Municipality of Providencia.
- Being over 90 years old was not an impediment to continuing working. She recorded albums with which she gave live performances. With the work 'My Marilyn Monroe' she had performances in several cities in the country and abroad.
- In 2017, she received the Caleuche Award for her career from the Minister of Culture, Ernesto Ottone, and Chileactores.
- Between 1967 and 1968 the singer worked in Buenos Aires .
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