at the Met Gala<\/a> for the first time on Monday night, alongside his girlfriend, architect Ana Amelia Battle Cabral. <\/p>\nThe pair exchanged pleasantries with livestream host La La Anthony in Spanish, before Hernandez not only spotlighted a South Florida business, but also introduced viewers to a part of his culture.<\/p>\n
As Anthony asked the comedian about his ensemble, he replied that it was made by Thom Browne\u2014”shoutout to Thom Browne”\u2014embellished with details made by his mom. <\/p>\n
“My mom made me this with Sammy jeweler [on] Calle Ocho in Miami,” he said with enthusiasm, pointing to a pin with stones on his breast pocket. <\/p>\n
He went on to describe the accessory in his signature Spanglish. <\/p>\n
“I have [my guardian angel charm], [an] azabache, a stone for protection, and larimar, which is a Dominican stone,” he said, before turning to his right arm. “And this is the traditional azabache with [God bless you] in Spanish.”<\/p>\n
An azabache is an onyx stone used as a protective amulet in several Latin American cultures, particularly associated with Hernandez’s own Cuban roots. <\/p>\n
Stay with NBC6 for more on the business that made the accessory, coming up on Tuesday evening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcello Hernandez keeps on repping Miami. The Cuban-Dominican comedian and SNL star walked the red carpet at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226,112364,123],"class_list":["post-259590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-met-gala","tag-miami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}