Latin-R&B singer Nezza grew emotional as she revealed a shocking fact about her performance of The Star Spangled Banner at the Los Angeles Dodgers game.
A clip showed how a representative was telling her to give her performance in English, before cutting to the show itself where she sang in Spanish instead.
Being well received by the audience, her caption read, “Watch the Dodgers tell me I can’t sing the Spanish ‘Star Spangled Banner that Roosevelt literally commissioned in 1945… So I did it anyway.”
The video showed the representative telling her, “We are gonna do the song in English today. I’m not sure if that wasn’t relayed,” which led to her smile dropping.
In a follow up video, Nezza looked tearful as she explained, “Safe to say I’m never allowed in that stadium ever again.”
However, a representative told the Los Angeles Times that “there were no consequences from the club regarding the performance and that Nezza would be welcome back at the stadium in the future.”
The singer continued in the follow up video, “Bear with me ’cause I’m still very shaken up and emotional. You can Google it, (but) I’ll just read it to you really quick: ‘It was officially commissioned in 1945 by the U.S. State Department as a part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s good neighbor policy to foster a better relationship with Latin America.”
She added, “Because of this, I didn’t think I would be met with any sort of, like, no, especially because we’re in L.A., and with everything happening. And I’ve sung the national anthem (in English) many times in my life, but … today out of all days I could not, I’m sorry.”
“I just could not believe when she walked in and told me no. I just felt like I needed to do it. For anyone who’s been following me for a while, you know everything I do is out of love,” she continued. “And I am proud of myself for doing that today. Because my parents are immigrants and they’ve been citizens my whole life at this point. They got documented really early, but I just can’t imagine them being ripped away from me, just even at this age, let alone (as) a little kid. What are we doing?,” concluded the singer.
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