Nezza, whose full name is Vanessa Hernández, went on TikTok after the game, clipping together videos of a Dodgers representative telling her the song would be sung in English and her performing the anthem in Spanish.
“Watch the Dodgers tell me I can’t sing the Spanish ‘Star Spangled Banner’ that Roosevelt literally commissioned in 1945,” showing her smile fading as the representative tells her, “We are going to be singing it in English today. I don’t know if that was communicated.”
The video then cuts to her singing the anthem in Spanish with the words, “So I did it anyway.”
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In a follow-up post, she said she was “shaken up” and “emotional” and that she did not think she would be told not to sing
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