Lin-Manuel Miranda

Released: June 3, 2008

Featuring: Eliseo Román

Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

[PIRAGUA GUY]
It's hotter than the islands are today
And Mister Softee's truck has broken down
And here come all his customers my way
I told you, I run this town!

Piragua, piragua
One-twenty-five, piragua!
Piragua, piragua
Two-twenty-five, piragua!
New block of ice, hike up the price
Lai lo le lo lai, lai lo le lo lai
Blackouts are nice, blackouts are nice
Lo le lo lai
Keep scraping by
Piragua!

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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