The public of the Los Angeles Dodgers stadium, the current champion of the United States Baseball League, stood up to listen, with the accustomed respect, the country’s anthem. Hand in the chest and absolute silence.
The singer in charge of interpreting it approaches the microphone located on the pitch and begins to sound the letter: “Look, you can see, to the subtle clear, what Erect rose when the sun clarified …” Before the surprise of the spectators, the hymn of the United States I was ringing … in Spanish. And, as expected, he went viral on social networks.
The person responsible for this “boldness” was the singer and influencer of Domincano origin Vanessa Hernández, known as Nezza’s artistic name, and her gesture was a sample of protest against the policy of mass raids against immigrants undertaken by the president of the USA, Donald Trump, and who has raised numerous criticisms and caused mobilizations in much of the country.
The hymn of the United States, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’, is known in its Spanish version as ‘The star ban of’, and its translated version is the best form of the Latin community of the United States of claim that it feels as statodunense as the rest without giving up its roots.
Nezza performed the official Spanish version of the Anthem against more than 55,000 fans in the moments before the match this Saturday between the Dodgers and the San Francisco Gigants, although it was not scheduled to do this interpretation.
In a video of Tiktok put after her interpretation, the singer explained that the Dodgers did not give her permission for her to interpret the Spanish version: “Look how the Dodgers tell me that I cannot sing the American flag in Spanish that Roosevelt literally commissioned.”
Hernández declared himself surprised by the refusal of the team, especially by the migratory raids that hit the city of Los Angeles, who have detonated mass demonstrations.
The influencer also stressed that a large majority of the followers of the Dodgers are Hispanic.
“I have sung the national anthem many times in my life, but I couldn’t. I’m sorry … I couldn’t believe it when he entered and said ‘No’, but I felt that I had to do it, for my people,” the influencer justified in the video that accumulates more than 10 million views, Efe reports.
The Dodgers did not issue a public comment on the situation, but a team official said there were no consequences by the club regarding the performance and that Hernández would be welcome again in the stadium in the futureaccording to information cited by Los Angeles Times.
The Hispanic influencer video, which He carried a T -shirt of the Dominican Republic at the time of interpretationhe has promoted other publications of choirs and children singing ‘The starry banner’.
However, Hernández has also been criticized, especially among conservatives who recalled on social networks that President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order establishing English as the official US language.
Written by Clotilde Arias, a Peruvian composer who worked in New York, the Spanish adaptation of the American national anthem was ordered in 1934 by the then President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as part of the policy known as Good Neighbor (good neighbor) to strengthen ties with Latin America.
This is the full letter of the United States anthem in Spanish:
Yo
Look! Can you see the subtle clear
What erect was won when the sun hid?
And its stripes and stars in the rude fight,
About Recio Baluarte Gallardo undulaba!
And the bomb when launching its reddish explosion,
At night he gave to see that there was the banner.
The Happy Tremola star banner
In the land of value, in free country?
II
On the coast, veiled in misty extension,
Where enemy host in silence rests,
What is that which undulas on lift rocks,
that the breeze when playing is going to be capricious?
Pray radiates in the light of the early dawn,
Pray in glory in the waters it is reflected:
The Happy Tremola Star Pendon
In the land of value, in free country!
III
Be like this: Forever the man of honor,
Defending his home from the fury of the war!
In victory and in peace of the supreme in the or,
It lifts his voice blessing this earth.
And swearing from good and justice go in post,
Our motto today is: “We trust God.”
And the Happy Tremola Star Pendon
In the land of value, in free country!