Adam Kidron

Adam Kidron [British-born] ex-music producer and serial entrepreneur is the Chief Executive Officer of Urban Box Office [“UBO”], a Reggaeton and urban Latino label in New York. Along with Eduardo Reyes he produced [in 2006] the controversial Spanish version of the American national anthem "Nuestro Himno", (dubbed by media as “The Spanish Star-Spangled Banner”). The recording was closely based on the U.S. Government’s own 1919 sanctioned translation of the famous poem by Francis Scott Key that would twelve years later become the National Anthem. Recorded to give recent Spanish language immigrants that have not yet learned English an equal opportunity to understand “The Star Spangled Banner” and ideals of freedom that the U.S. flag represents. The controversy surrounding the recording received blanket media coverage around the globe and even provoked a rare public disagreement between President Bush, who declared at a White house Rose Garden press conference:

'The Star Spangled Banner' does not have the same American 'value' sung in Spanish as English... And I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English. And they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English.'

While the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, told CBS's "Face the Nation" that she believed that:

"The individualization of the American national anthem is quite under way."

Adam Kidron's father Michael Kidron was a Marxist economist, best known for his book "Western Capitalism Since the War", a fact that has been noted as significant by many conservative [blogs http://www.heretical.com/ofarrell/coonkike.html]; Adam is the brother of the movie director Beeban Kidron.