Singer and social media character Nezza sang the nationwide anthem in Spanish at Dodger Stadium on Saturday night time.
And, in response to a video the performer later posted to social media, she did so towards the desires of the group.
In a video Nezza, whose full title is Vanessa Hernández, , an unidentified Dodgers worker is heard telling her earlier than Saturday’s efficiency that “we’re going to do the track in English in the present day, so I’m unsure if that wasn’t relayed.”
Then, the video cuts to Nezza — who was sporting a Dominican Republic shirt — signing a Spanish model of the Star-Spangled Banner on the sphere forward of the Dodgers’ win towards the San Francisco Giants.
The video’s caption: “So I did it anyway.”
, Nezza mentioned the model of the track she sang was commissioned in 1945 by the U.S. State Division beneath President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and that she needed to sing it amid the current unrest in Los Angeles stemming from raids by ICE brokers.
“I didn’t suppose I’d be met with any kind of no, particularly as a result of we’re in LA and with all the pieces occurring,” she mentioned. “However in the present day out of all days, I simply couldn’t imagine when she [the Dodgers employee] walked in and instructed me ‘no.’ However I simply felt like I wanted to do it. Para mi gente.”
The Dodgers didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Normally, the Dodgers have largely been quiet concerning the raids and ensuing protests within the metropolis over the past week.
Supervisor Dave Roberts has been requested concerning the scenario twice. On Monday, he mentioned that, “I simply hope that we is usually a optimistic distraction for what individuals are going by way of in Los Angeles proper now.”
On Friday, he provided little additional remark: “I do know that if you’re having to deliver individuals in and deport individuals, all of the unrest, it’s actually unsettling for everybody,” he mentioned, “However I haven’t dug sufficient and may’t converse intelligently on it.”
Veteran on Saturday, writing that “I can not stand to see our group being violated, profiled, abused and ripped aside. ALL individuals should be handled with respect, dignity and human rights.”
The Dodgers, nonetheless, haven’t issued any team-level assertion, and a membership govt that they didn’t plan to make any remark.
