Nezza performs the national anthem of the USA in Spanish.

[Swede]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/sport/video/nezza-national-anthem-spanish-dodgers-game-digvid

[travelingthrulife]

1. I saw an interview with her. She was told to sing in English. She did it in Spanish

anyway because the stadium is filled with hispanic people. She said she was really frightened of public disapproval and kept her eyes shut the entire time. She was crying at the end of the song, "land of the free.."

[aggiesal]

5. I'm Hispanic too, and when I first saw that rendition, I also cried ...

That's not the first time I've cried during the National Anthem. I was sent to Germany for 2.5 years, back in 1992, I arrived on New Year's Day. In July, 1992, the Olympics that year was in Barcelona, Spain. I hadn't heard our National Anthem in 7 months. When watching a gold medal ceremony, an event won by an American (Sorry I don't remember the event or the medalist), my emotions took over and I couldn't stop crying.

The 11th Hour w/Stephanie Ruhle has a Friday Nightcap with a round table of guests, discussing the events of the week.
At the end, each guest picks an MVP of the week and why.
Last Monday, I sent a Tweet & a BlueSky message to Stephanie Ruhle for my MVP of the week. I choose Nezza, for singing this rendition & the Dodgers for allowing her to sing the our National Anthem in Spanish. (Yes I knew that the Dodgers had told her to sing in English, but they didn't turn off the 🎤.)

@SRuhle @11thHour @stephruhle.bsky.social @11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social
I know this is early because we still have 4.5 days until Friday Nightcap, but my co-MVP's are Vanessa Hernández (AKA Nezza) who sang the National Anthem in Spanish on Sat. nite & Dodgers (& I'm not a Dodgers fan) for allowing her to.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/singer-dodger-stadium-national-anthem-spanish-nezza-rcna213236

Last night Stephanie Ruhle's MVP was Nezza. I'd like to think she took my cue, from my message. Here is that announcement. (I hope you can view it).
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLJmxmuM9Ao/

To finish this, I would like to say that I now carry my Passport Card everywhere I go.
I never used to carry this, unless I needed it crossing into Mexico &.Canada.
With all the racial profiling that ICE is doing, rounding up anyone that's brown or looks different than northern European, there is no "Land of the Free".
Going to Home Depot or 7-Eleven & rounding up all brown people regardless of citizenship, should be a warning to everyone. Just speaking & criticizing publicly, against this administration, while exercising your right to "Freedom of Speech", might invite a visit from the masked ICEtapol goons.
How free does that make you feel?

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. THAT makes a statement. BRAVO! n/t

[Walleye]

3. That was one of the best performances I've ever heard of the anthem. Heartfelt.

[twodogsbarking]

4. Spanish is a beautiful language. Wish I could speak it. Hola.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, understood...

“To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse—German."

[MineralMan]

6. Many Americans Are Outraged When They Hear Other Languages

It's weird as hell, as far as I'm concerned.

I have a story from my own life about that. I was back in my home town on Christmas, 1966. I was on leave between assignments in the USAF.

I visited the church I had attended when I lived there, as I usually did. The choir director asked me if I would sing a solo for Christmas a week later. I was a favorite vocal soloist at that church when I was still in high school. So, I said yes. I chose to sing "O Holy Night" or "Cantique de Noel" as it was named in its original French version.

I met with the church organist that week to run through it. She was the only one who knew what plan was for it. Lovely person, she was, and thought it was a good idea.

My plan, which I briefly explained before singing was to sing it three languages, French, it's original language, English, and in my own translation into Russian. I had just finished almost a year of a total immersion USAF Russian program at Syracuse University. I sang in the men's chorus of that school and did the translation for our graduation ceremony. It was vetted by and approved of by the head of the Russian language program.

So I sang that trilingual interpretation at church, in my dress blue USAF uniform. After the service, one of the church's elders approached me and gave me a "How dare you!" lecture. How dare I sing that song in any language but English? Especially Russian! I was not longer a high school kid, nor was I going to listen to his bullshit, so I explained it in no uncertain terms and suggested what he could do with his objection.

A couple of days later, I was on my way to my nest USAF base.

Some people cannot stand to hear a language they don't understand. It is offensive to them, because they don't understand it and someone else does. It's also very, very weird that so many people feel that way.