Get the latest gossip
Nezza Speaks Out on Defying Dodgers’ Rules by Singing National Anthem in Spanish: ‘I Think God Entered My Body at That Moment’ (EXCLUSIVE)
In a Variety Q&A, Nezza talks about why she went against the Dodgers' wishes and sing "The Star Spangled Banner in Spanish, and the polarized response.
But the 30-year-old singer tells Variety that, to her, it truly had to be a God thing that she was booked to sing the national anthem at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, a day when a large number of Americans were on the streets to, at least in part, protest the recent treatment of Latinos in this country. This may mark the first time that she attracted the kind of attention that leads dozens or hundreds of commenters to argue that she needs to be “deported back to Mexico.” (For the record, she is of Columbian and Dominican descent and was born to U.S. citizens in the Bay area.) I don’t want anyone to think that we went in there with this scheme, like “This is what we’re gonna do and we have this plan and let’s catch her on camera.” The beginning of that video was just my boyfriend recording my rehearsal for BTS, and she just happened to walk into frame and say the things that she did.
Or read this on Variety
