Jully Black’s changed Canada’s national anthem at Sunday’s NBA All-Star game from “our home and native land” to “our home on native land,” emphasizing “on.” She says the anthem should be permanently changed.
“I wouldn’t have sung it if I didn’t believe it should be this,” she told The Canadian Press.
The R&B singer gave the performance at the game in Salt lake City, Utah, and told TSN afterward that she had talked to her indigenous friends beforehand.
“So I really dissected the lyrics to really sing it with intention. … Now I’m singing it in a whole other meaningful way,” she said. She has often sung the anthem in her career, but had taken a pause on doing so in recent years out of concerns about indigenous rights….