Lin-Manuel Miranda

Released: June 3, 2008

Featuring: Lin-Manuel Miranda Mandy Gonzalez

Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Producer: Joel Moss Kurt Deutsch Andres Levin Bill Sherman Alex Lacamoire Lin-Manuel Miranda

[USNAVI]
She was found and pronounced… at the scene
She was already lying in bed
The paramedics said
That her heart gave out…
I mean, that’s basically what they said. They said
A combination of the stress and the heat…
Why she never took her medicine, I’ll never understand
I’d like to think she went out in peace
With pieces of bread crumbs in her hand
Abuela Claudia had simple pleasures
She sang the praises of things we ignore
Glass Coke bottles, bread crumbs, a sky full of stars
She cherished these things, she’d say: “Alabanza.”
Alabanza means to raise this
Thing to God’s face
And to sing, quite literally: “Praise to this.”
When she was here, the path was clear
And she was just here, she was just here…

[NINA]
Alabanza
Alabanza a doña Claudia, señor
Alabanza, alabanza

Alabanza
Alabanza a doña Claudia, señor
Alabanza, alabanza

[NINA/DANIELA/CARLA]
Alabanza
Alabanza a doña Claudia, señor

[+SONNY]
Alabanza, alabanza

[+CAMILA/BENNY]
Alabanza
Alabanza a doña Claudia, señor

[+VANESSA/KEVIN]
Alabanza, alabanza

[CAMILA/PIRAGUA GUY/
SONNY/KEVIN/BENNY/MEN & NINA/DANIELA/CARLA]
Alabanza (Alabanza)
Alabanza a doña Claudia, señor
Alabanza (Alabanza)

[CAMILA/PIRAGUA GUY/SONNY/KEVIN/BENNY/MEN & MEN]
Alabanza
Paciencia y fe

[CAMILA/PIRAGUA GUY/SONNY/KEVIN/BENNY/MEN & WOMEN]
Alabanza
Paciencia y fe
Alabanza a doña Claudia (Alabanza a doña Claudia)

[CAMILA/PIRAGUA GUY/SONNY/KEVIN/BENNY/MEN & NINA]
Alabanza
Paciencia y fe Doña Claudia
Alabanza
Alabanza

[COMMUNITY]
Alabanza
Alabanza
Alabanza

[USNAVI]
Alabanza

Lin-Manuel Miranda is an award-winning American writer, composer, playwright, and actor. He created and starred in two hit musicals, In the Heights and Hamilton (2015), an epic adaptation of Ron Chernow’s biography of the American founding father. Miranda also co-wrote the music and lyrics for Disney’s Moana (2016). The film’s main theme, “How Far I’ll Go”, was nominated for the 2017 Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Personally, Miranda has received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Hamilton), three Tony Awards (Best Original Score for both ITH and Hamilton, Best Book of a Musical for Hamilton), two Grammys (Best Musical Theatre Album ITH, Hamilton), and an Emmy (Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for “Bigger”). He was the recipient of the 2015 MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant”. He has a star on the Puerto Rican Walk of Fame and will receive a Hollywood star in 2018.

Awards for musicals

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