Singer defied Dodgers, belted anthem in Spanish

Latin vocalist Nezza said she is "super proud" of performing the nationalist anthem successful Spanish astatine Dodger Stadium connected Saturday nighttime and that she has "no regrets."

Her astonishing 90-second rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" anterior to the Los Angeles Dodgers' crippled against the Giants -- and a behind-the-scenes video she shared connected societal media of squad representatives discouraging it beforehand -- rapidly went viral and person go a flashpoint for Dodgers fans frustrated by the team's deficiency of vocal enactment for migrant communities impacted by the deportation raids crossed the U.S., including galore neighborhoods successful and astir Los Angeles.

"This is my infinitesimal to amusement everyone that I americium with them that we person a dependable and with everything that's happening it's not OK," Nezza, 30, told The Associated Press. "I'm ace arrogant that I did it. No regrets."

Nezza said she hadn't yet decided whether to sing successful English oregon Spanish until she walked retired onto the tract and saw the stands filled with Latino families successful Dodger blue. Prior to that, arsenic shown successful the singer's TikTok video, a Dodgers worker had told Nezza that "we are going to bash the opus successful English today, truthful I'm not definite if that wasn't transferred oregon if that wasn't relayed."

The Spanish-language mentation Nezza sang, "El Pendón Estrellado," is the authoritative translation of the nationalist anthem and was commissioned successful 1945 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Peruvian-American composer Clotilde Arias.

Nezza says her manager instantly received a telephone from an unidentified Dodgers worker saying their clients were not invited astatine the stadium again, but the squad denied that successful a connection to the AP.

"There were nary consequences oregon hard feelings from the Dodgers regarding her performance," the Dodgers said successful the statement. "She was not asked to leave. We would beryllium blessed to person her back."

Despite the Dodgers' statement, Nezza said she does not deliberation she volition instrumentality to the stadium but hopes her show volition animate others to usage their dependable and talk out.

"It's conscionable shown maine similar however overmuch powerfulness determination is successful the Latin community," Nezza said. "We gotta beryllium the dependable close now."

The Dodgers person not gone connected the grounds regarding the arrests and raids made by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents successful the areas conscionable a abbreviated thrust from Dodger Stadium, but subordinate Enrique Hernandez posted astir it connected Instagram implicit the weekend.

"I americium saddened and infuriated by what's happening successful our state and our city," Hernández posted successful English and Spanish. "I cannot basal to spot our assemblage being violated, profiled, abused and ripped apart. ALL radical merit to beryllium treated with respect, dignity and quality rights."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.