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USA Today
10 hours ago
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- USA Today
¿Por qué Nezza cantó el himno nacional en español en el juego de los Dodgers? 'necesitaba hacerlo'
The feels are real when a student choir sings the Star Spangled Banner 3,000 students gathered to sing the Star-Spangled Banner at the Hyatt Regency in Louisville during the Kentucky Music Educators Conference.
USA Today
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Singer Nezza performs national anthem in Spanish at Dodgers Stadium after team axed it
Singer Nezza performs national anthem in Spanish at Dodgers Stadium after team axed it Show Caption Hide Caption The feels are real when a student choir sings the Star Spangled Banner 3,000 students gathered to sing the Star-Spangled Banner at the Hyatt Regency in Louisville during the Kentucky Music Educators Conference. Rising R&B singer Nezza is going viral for her choice to sing the "Star Spangled Banner" in Spanish at a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball game, apparently despite the team's request not to. In a TikTok the singer posted on Sunday, June 15, Nezza can be seen sporting a Dominican Republic jersey as an unseen woman, presumably with the Dodgers front office, confirms the national anthem should be sung in English. While being told this, Nezza says, "Oh," as her face immediately falls, before the video cuts to the 30-year-old singing in Spanish in Dodger Stadium. "watch the dodgers tell me i can't sing the spanish star spangled banner that Roosevelt literally commissioned in 1945," Nezza wrote in the onscreen text. "so i did anyway." Midway through the clip of Nezza singing, she appears to cover her face out of emotion, before gathering herself to finish out the anthem, to cheers. She captioned the TikTok: "para mi gente (for my people) i stand with you." The video has been seen over seven million times. In a separate TikTok later that day, Nezza explained the official "Star Spangled Banner" translation in Spanish was commissioned by President Franklin Roosevelt to build a better relationship with Latin America. "Because of this, I didn't think I would be met with any sort of 'no.' Especially because we're in LA. And with everything happening." USA TODAY has reached out to the Dodgers and Nezza's rep for comment. Nezza is likely referring to nationwide protests over the federal government's immigration enforcement, which first erupted in Los Angeles earlier this month. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is carrying out a directive from President Donald Trump to find immigrants living in the United States without legal status. His goal is to deport 1 million undocumented immigrants annually. This has sparked a series of sometimes-violent protests in the greater Los Angeles area. A team official told the Los Angeles Times that there were no hard feelings over the move and that Nezza would be welcome back in the stadium in the future.
Yahoo
23-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Video showing thousands singing 'Star-Spangled Banner' in Kentucky hotel goes viral
A Bullitt County Public Schools choir director's video showing thousands of students singing the national anthem in a Louisville hotel's cavernous atrium is going viral. The video was captured during the Kentucky Music Educators Conference Feb. 5, but it's just now gaining traction. Several news outlets have picked up the video, and it has amassed more than 500,000 likes on TikTok. Singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in the atrium is an annual tradition for students staying at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Louisville during the multi-day Kentucky Music Educators Conference, Bullitt East High School Choir Director Carrie Ann Gary told The Courier Journal. In 2022, CBS News reported the tradition started in 1987 after a group of students hanging out in the atrium extemporaneously started singing. "It was just student-inspired," Gary said. "There's not a person that starts it. There's not a conductor. It's just students joining together." Gary has gone to the conference with students each year since 2008. She always looks forward to seeing her students experience it for the first time, which was the case for five of her six students who attended this year. "It really is such a cool thing to be a part of. So, that's kind of why I just like to kind of get their expression," Gary said. Why it went viral this year? She's not sure. One reason, she suspects, is that the video was taken from the hotel's 17th floor, giving a unique vantage as she pans from the ground floor all the way up to her floor. Another explanation could be that people are hungry for "something positive," Gary said. Whatever the reason might be, she's glad it's resonating with people. "It's just such a unifying thing that everybody knows, a unifying song, a unifying symbol that everybody's familiar with," she said. Contact reporter Killian Baarlaer at kbaarlaer@ or @bkillian72 on X. This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Star-Spangled Banner sung by thousands of students at Louisville hotel
Yahoo
23-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Video showing thousands singing 'Star-Spangled Banner' in Louisville hotel goes viral
A Bullitt County Public Schools choir director's video showing thousands of students singing the national anthem in a Louisville hotel's cavernous atrium is going viral. The video was captured during the Kentucky Music Educators Conference Feb. 5, but it's just now gaining traction. Several news outlets have picked up the video, and it has amassed more than 500,000 likes on TikTok. Singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in the atrium is an annual tradition for students staying at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Louisville during the multi-day Kentucky Music Educators Conference, Bullitt East High School Choir Director Carrie Ann Gary told The Courier Journal. In 2022, CBS News reported the tradition started in 1987 after a group of students hanging out in the atrium extemporaneously started singing. "It was just student-inspired," Gary said. "There's not a person that starts it. There's not a conductor. It's just students joining together." Gary has gone to the conference with students each year since 2008. She always looks forward to seeing her students experience it for the first time, which was the case for five of her six students who attended this year. "It really is such a cool thing to be a part of. So, that's kind of why I just like to kind of get their expression," Gary said. Why it went viral this year? She's not sure. One reason, she suspects, is that the video was taken from the hotel's 17th floor, giving a unique vantage as she pans from the ground floor all the way up to her floor. Another explanation could be that people are hungry for "something positive," Gary said. Whatever the reason might be, she's glad it's resonating with people. "It's just such a unifying thing that everybody knows, a unifying song, a unifying symbol that everybody's familiar with," she said. Contact reporter Killian Baarlaer at kbaarlaer@ or @bkillian72 on X. This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Star-Spangled Banner sung by thousands of students at Louisville hotel
