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“I felt that I had to do it”: a singer performed the American anthem in Spanish, before a Dodgers game in Los Angeles

Before the opening of a baseball game, a representative of the Los Angeles Dodgers team told him that his performance should take place in English.

The song will also be involved this Saturday, June 14, Noseza, an American singer of Dominican and Colombian origin, was invited to sing during the opening of the baseball party between the Los Angeles Dodgers to the Giants of San Francisco. In support of the demonstrations against the anti-immigration policy of the government and in tribute to its origins, the 30-year-old artist wanted to sing The Star BannerThe National Hymn of the United States, in Spanish.

An application that was finally rejected, as shown in Nossza in a video shared on Tiktok and approaches 12 million visits. “Today we are going to sing the song in English, I don’t know if the information was transmitted to you,” said a Dodgers representative just before the meeting. Despite the ban, the singer, dressed in a T -shirt of the Dominican Republic, entered the stage and sang the hymn in Spanish.

A version controlled by Franklin Roosevelt

In another video about Tiktok posted a little later at night and greater than 4.8 million visits, Noseza says thatThe starry bannerThe Spanish version of Star banner, Composed of Peruvian composer Clotilde Arias had won a competition organized by the United States.

“He was officially commissioned in 1945 by the US State Department as part of the Good Neighborhood’s policy of President Franklin Roosevelt with the aim of promoting better relations with Latin America.”

Under this, the singer explains that she did not think about being rejected. “Especially because we are in Los Angeles and that with everything that is happening … I sang the national anthem [en anglais] Many times in my life. But today, more than ever, I couldn’t, I’m sorry, “he said in reference to the repression led by Donald Trump towards the mobilizations against his migration policy.

“I felt that I had to do it (…) and I am proud of myself today. Because my parents are immigrants and that they were citizens all my life,” he explains, tears in his eyes, the singer whose real name is Vanessa Hernández. “They have had their papers for a long time, but I can’t imagine we can start them. Even at this age, and even less when I was little. What’s happening?”

The singer also declares sure that she can “never put feet” at the Dodger stadium. Information denied the next day by a baseball team representative in the Los Angeles Times. According to the Sports Columnist of the Dylan Hernández newspaper, the club is still very discreet in current events in the city and in the state, despite the fact that 40% of its followers are Latin.

Author: Arthur Hachez
Source: BFM TV

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