Dodgers say Nezza is not banned from stadium for singing national anthem in Spanish

What started arsenic a subtle enactment of protestation has go nationalist news.

Three days aft vocalist and societal media property Nezza performed a Spanish mentation of the nationalist anthem astatine Dodger Stadium — contempt being asked by a squad worker to sing it successful English — the performer further addressed the concern Tuesday successful an interrogation with CNN.

“With everything that’s been happening, I conscionable felt similar I needed to basal with my radical and amusement them that I’m with them,” Nezza (whose afloat sanction is Vanessa Hernández) said connected CNN’s “The Lead.” “I wanted to correspond them that day.”

Nezza’s show of the Spanish anthem — a mentation of “The Star-Spangled Banner” commissioned by the U.S. State Department successful 1945 nether President Franklin D. Roosevelt — became a viral communicative aft she posted a video connected TikTok of an unidentified Dodgers worker telling her beforehand that “we are going to bash the opus successful English today, truthful I’m not definite if that wasn’t relayed.”

Nezza proceeded to sing the Spanish mentation anyway; doing truthful connected the aforesaid time thousands gathered downtown to protestation President Trump and caller ICE raids astir Los Angeles successful the past 2 weeks.

In email communications with the squad starring up to her performance, Nezza said she asked if she could sing the anthem successful some English and Spanish, but was told nary due to the fact that she would person lone a 90-second model for her performance.

Still, she said she arrived astatine the stadium “fully reasoning that I was invited [to sing successful Spanish], due to the fact that cipher told maine successful that email thread, ‘No, you can’t.’”

“Had they told maine you can’t person immoderate Spanish successful there,” she added, “I would person respectfully declined and not shown up connected Saturday.”

Instead, Nezza performed the anthem successful Spanish anterior to the Dodgers-Giants game, earlier posting 2 videos connected TikTok explaining the concern that rapidly went viral.

On Sunday, a Dodgers authoritative told The Times successful a connection that she would beryllium invited backmost astatine the stadium.

In Tuesday’s CNN interview, Nezza said she was “very shocked” to larn she was invited backmost astatine the ballpark, noting that “30 seconds aft my performance, we really received a telephone that said, ‘Don’t ever telephone america again. Don’t ever email america again. The remainder of your clients are ne'er invited present again.’ So for me, that benignant of feels similar a ban.”

The Dodgers, however, reaffirmed to CNN that determination were “no hard feelings” resulting from the situation. And a squad spokesperson confirmed to The Times this week that, “She is surely invited backmost astatine the stadium. She is not banned from the stadium.”