Vanessa Hernndez, known by her stage name Nezza, sang a Spanish rendition of the United States national anthem at Dodger Stadium on Saturday night, and she claimed the team wished she didn't. "El Pendn Estrellado," the official Spanish rendition of the national anthem commissioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, was sung by Nezza during Saturday's Los Angeles Dodgers game against the San Francisco Giants.
Seems some people didn't appreciate it. I think it was awesome.
I'm old enough to remember the brouhaha over Jim Hendrix's rendition of The Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock in 1969.
Hendrix and Woodstock: 10 Little-Known Facts about the Performance That Defined the '60s
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... On Aug. 18, 1969, legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix stepped onto the stage at the Woodstock, N.Y., Music Festival and embarked upon an uninterrupted set lasting nearly two hours -- -one of the longest performances of his career. It concluded with a long medley that included the solo performance of the Star Spangled Banner that would become emblematic not only of Woodstock, but of the 1960s themselves. ...
4. Hendrix did not perform for half a million people. In fact, when he took to the stage at 9 a.m., the crowd, which once numbered 500,000, had dwindled to fewer than 200,000. With the demands of work and school weighing on them, many fans waited just long enough to see Hendrix begin his set, and then departed. ...
Jimi Hendrix - The Star Spangled Banner - Woodstock - 1969
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@#9 ... If she did it to "protest", she was wrong. ...
Why would she be wrong if she did it in protest? Is protesting illegal?
And what might you think about this rendition?
Ray Charles - America The Beautiful (1972)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
...
[Verse 1]
Oh beautiful, for heroes proved
In liberating strife
Who more than self, our country loved
And mercy more than life
[Chorus]
America, America, may God thy gold refine
'Til all success be nobleness
And every gain devined
And you know when I was in school
We used to sing it something like this, listen here
[Verse 2]
Oh beautiful, for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain
But now wait a minute, I'm talking about
[Chorus]
America, sweet America
You know, God done shed his grace on thee
He crowned thy good, yes he did, in a brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
You know, I wish I had somebody to help me sing this
[Outro]
(America, America)
America, I love you America, you see
(God shed his grace on thee)
My God, He done shed his grace on thee
And you oughta love Him for it
Because He, He, He, He, crowned thy good
He told me He would, with a brotherhood
(From sea to shining sea)
Oh Lord, oh Lord, I thank you Lord
(Shining sea)
...
And then there is this ...
Kate Smith "God Bless America" on The Ed Sullivan Show (1956)
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