Back in June, singer Vanessa Hernandez, known professionally as Nezza, staged a one-woman protest at Dodger Stadium in response to the federal immigration crackdown in Los Angeles.

She sang “El Pendón Estrellado,” the official Spanish-language version of the "Star-Spangled Banner" — even after a member of the Dodgers organization explicitly told her to sing the national anthem in English.

“It was scary,” she said. "I still don't know how I got myself to do it, but I just keep saying that I feel like God was just with me in that moment and just gave me a little push forward.”

Nezza said she wanted to honor L.A.’s immigrant community, as well as Peruvian-American composer Clotilde Arias, who wrote a translation in 1945. It was commissioned by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of an e

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