“The money they have made off of immigrants, especially Latino players, and then to have the nerve to ban you for singing in Spanish is mind-blowing to me.”View Entire Post ›
Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Good Neighbor” foreign policy, the State Department called for submissions for a singable Spanish-language version of the national anthem to distribute in Latin America. A Peruvian immigrant composer named Clotilde Arias penned the winning song, called “El Pendon Estrellado,” in 1945. It remains the only Spanish version of the national anthem allowed to be sung.
