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Nezza Says Dodgers Told Her She’s No Longer ‘Welcome’ After Singing National Anthem in Spanish

Nezza said that the Dodgers told her she is no longer "welcome" at their games after she defied the team by singing the national anthem in Spanish.

Nezza took a big risk when she sang the national anthem in Spanish at a recent Los Angeles Dodgers game, despite being instructed not to — and as a result, the musician says she is no longer “welcome” at the stadium. In an interview with Variety published Tuesday (June 17) — two days after Nezza performed the anthem in Spanish out of solidarity with the immigrant families who have been targeted by recent ICE raids in L.A. — the singer said that she was asked not to return before she even “set foot out of” Dodger Stadium. The California native would go on to perform in Spanish anyway, later telling followers that she’d done so with respect to the struggles much of L.A.’s Latin population is facing amid the Donald Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns and explaining that the version she sang was commissioned by the U.S. government in 1945.

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