Lin-Manuel Miranda

Released: June 3, 2008

Featuring: Eliseo Román

Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

[PIRAGUA GUY]
Oh, qué calor, qué calor, qué calor, qué calo-o-or!
Piragua, piragua
New block of ice, piragua
Piragua, piragua
So sweet and nice, piragua

Tengo de mango
Tengo de parcha
De piña y de fresa!
Tengo de china, de limón
De peso y de peseta, hey!

Piragua, piragua
New block of ice, piragua
Piragua, piragua
So sweet and nice, piragua

It’s hotter than the islands are tonight
And Mister Softee trying to shut me down
But I keep scraping by the fading light
Hey pana, this is my town

Piragua, piragua
Keep scraping by, piragua

Piragua, piragua
Keep scraping by, piragua

Keep scraping by, keep scraping by…
Lai lo le lo lai! Lai lo le lo lai!

Keep scraping by, keep scraping by…
Lai lo le lo lai!

Keep scraping by…

Oh, qué calor, qué calor, qué calor, qué calo-o-or!

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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In The Heights (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

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In The Heights (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2008)

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