Singer claims Dodgers didn’t want her to sing Spanish rendition of US national anthem amid anti-ICE riots

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Vanessa Hernández, known by her stage name Nezza, sang a Spanish rendition of the United States national anthem at Dodger Stadium on Saturday night, and she claimed the team wished she didn’t. 

"El Pendón Estrellado," the official Spanish rendition of the national anthem commissioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, was sung by Nezza during Saturday’s Los Angeles Dodgers game against the San Francisco Giants. 

Nezza, wearing a Dominican Republic shirt while performing, posted a video on TikTok of a team employee telling her, "We are going to do the song in English today."

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"I’m not sure if that wasn’t relayed," the employee said in the video. 

Nezza decided to sing the Spanish version anyway, saying in a later TikTok video that it was in response to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) presence in Los Angeles that has led to protests and unrest in the city. 

"I didn’t think I’d be met with any sort of no," Nezza said in her video. "Especially because we’re in L.A. and with everything happening. I’ve sang the national anthem many times in my life, but today, out of all days, I could not. 

"I just felt like I needed to do it. Para mi gente (for my people)."

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