Three days after singer and social media persona Nezza carried out a Spanish model of the nationwide anthem at Dodger Stadium — regardless of being requested by a group worker to sing it in English — the performer additional addressed the scenario Tuesday in an interview with CNN.
“With everything that’s been happening, I just felt like I needed to stand with my people and show them that I’m with them,” Nezza (whose full identify is Vanessa Hernández) mentioned on CNN’s “The Lead.” “I wanted to represent them that day.”
Nezza’s efficiency of the Spanish anthem — a model of “The Star-Spangled Banner” commissioned by the U.S. State Division in 1945 beneath President Franklin D. Roosevelt — grew to become a viral story after she posted a video on TikTok of an unidentified Dodgers worker telling her beforehand that “we are going to do the song in English today, so I’m not sure if that wasn’t relayed.”
Nezza proceeded to sing the Spanish model anyway; doing so on the identical day hundreds gathered downtown to protest President Trump and up to date ICE raids round Los Angeles within the final two weeks.
“Had they told me you can’t have any Spanish in there,” she added, “I would have respectfully declined and not shown up on Saturday.”
As a substitute, Nezza carried out the anthem in Spanish previous to the Dodgers-Giants recreation, earlier than posting two movies on TikTok explaining the scenario that shortly went viral.
On Sunday, a Dodgers official instructed The Instances in a press release that she can be welcome again on the stadium.
The Dodgers, nonetheless, reaffirmed to CNN that there have been “no hard feelings” ensuing from the scenario. And a group spokesperson confirmed to The Instances this week that, “She is certainly welcome back at the stadium. She is not banned from the stadium.”
