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Vanessa Hernández, known by her signifier sanction Nezza, sang a Spanish rendition of the United States' nationalist anthem astatine Dodger Stadium connected Saturday night, and she claimed the squad wished she did not.
Now, the vocalist is saying she has since received decease threats for her performance.
Nezza, wearing a Dominican Republic shirt portion performing, posted a video connected TikTok of a squad worker telling her, "We are going to bash the opus successful English today."
Nezza decided to sing the Spanish mentation anyway, saying successful a aboriginal TikTok video that it was successful effect to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) beingness successful Los Angeles that has led to protests and unrest successful the city.
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Nezza said she has received decease threats since her Spanish rendition of the nationalist anthem. (Getty Images/IMAGN)
She said the backlash she has received has been harmful.
"That's conscionable the internet. That's going to travel with thing similar that. Anything that involves authorities is going to see a decease menace present and there," Nezza said to TMZ Sports.
"The main happening I've seen seeing is that it's disrespectful. I don't deliberation it's disrespectful, due to the fact that the lyrics are inactive the aforesaid nonstop lyrics arsenic the English version. If some songs were made into a euphony video, it'd beryllium the nonstop euphony video.
"I'm a arrogant American. I was calved here, raised here, my dreams came existent present successful L.A. I deliberation being a arrogant American and inactive wanting amended for your state tin inactive beryllium the aforesaid truth, and I deliberation radical are forgetting that."
Nezza attends a Creator Screening successful enactment of "IF" astatine The London West Hollywood astatine Beverly Hills connected May 9, 2024 successful West Hollywood, California. (Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)
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Nezza said she has besides received enactment from celebrities successful the Latin community, which "outweighs" the hate.
"It's been truly saccharine to spot radical you idolize beryllium connected the close broadside of history…" she said. "I already knew successful my bosom what I did was right, but this conscionable triple-confirms it."
In the aforementioned TikTok, Nezza said she "just felt similar I needed to" sing the Spanish mentation - but present she does "not consciousness invited back" astatine Dodger Stadium.
Other Los Angeles-based nonrecreational sports teams person taken a stance, including the NWSL’s Angely City F.C., which gave fans "Immigrant City Football Club" T-shirts astatine their crippled connected Saturday. Players were besides seen warming up with the t-shirts connected earlier their lucifer to amusement enactment for those protesting.
A wide presumption of the outfield plaza anterior to the MLB crippled betwixt the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Atlanta Braves astatine Dodger Stadium connected May 5, 2024. (Kiyoshi Mio-USA TODAY Sports)
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Nezza’s Spanish rendition of the anthem came connected the time of galore "No Kings" protests, which were against the subject parade successful Washington, D.C., that coincided with President Donald Trump's birthday, crossed the country.
Trump’s day was besides the 250th day solemnisation of the United States Army.
Fox News' Scott Thompson contributed to this report.
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