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El Pendón Estrellado - Official Spanish Version of the National Anthem

Performed by: Jeidimar Rijos www.hispanicstar.org ABOUT THE ANTHEM In 1945, the State Department under President Franklin D. Roosevelt commissioned an official Spanish version of the National Anthem as part of his ‘Good Neighbor Policy’ to secure allies in Latin America during World War II. Musician and composer originally from Peru, Clotilde Arias was commissioned by the U.S. State Department to write a translation that could be sung to the tune of the “Star-Spangled Banner.” “Franklin Roosevelt once said that one of the great regrets of his life was that he could not converse in Spanish,” said David B. Woolner, Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and author of The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace. “Had he lived but a few more years, there is little doubt that this beautiful rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner would have inspired him to recommit himself to learn Español to speak with the American Hispanic community in their first language This rendition reminds us— as FDR did —of the important role that Hispanics across the nation are playing in helping us meet this crisis.”