Lin-Manuel Miranda

Released: June 3, 2008

Featuring: Mandy Gonzalez Christopher Jackson

Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

[NINA]
Are you ready to try again?

[BENNY]
I think I’m ready

[NINA, spoken]
Okay. Here we go.

[sung]
Esquína

[BENNY]
Corner

[NINA]
Tienda

[BENNY]
Store

[NINA]
Bombilla

[BENNY]
Lightbulb

[NINA]
You’re sure?

[BENNY]
I’m… sure

[NINA]
Three out of three, you did alright!

[BENNY]
Well teach me a little more…

[NINA]
Calor

[BENNY]
Heat

[NINA]
Anoche

[BENNY]
Last night

[NINA]
Dolor

[BENNY]
Pain

[NINA]
That’s right
Llámame

[BENNY]
Call me

[NINA]
Azul

[BENNY]
Blue

[NINA]
Ámame

[BENNY]
Love me

[NINA]
Perhaps I do—

[BENNY]
Well, how do you say "kiss me"?

[NINA]
Bésame

[BENNY]
And how do you say "hold me"?

[NINA]
Abrázame
Al amanecer. At sunrise

[NINA/BENNY]
Anything at all can happen just before the sunrise

[NINA]
Al amanecer

[BENNY]
Al amanecer

[SONNY]
Sunrise

[CARLA]
Sunrise

[VANESSA]
Sunrise

[DANIELA]
Sunrise

[PIRAGUA GUY/MEN]
Sigue andando el camino por toda su vida

[CARLA]
Sunrise

[VANESSA]
Sunrise

[DANIELA]
Sunrise

[PIRAGUA GUY/MEN]
Respira

[DANIELA/CARLA/VANESSA/SONNY]
Sunrise

[KEVIN]
Nina…

[BENNY]
I don’t know

[NINA]
Yo no sé

[BENNY]
What to do

[NINA]
Qué hacer

[BENNY]
Now that I’ve found you

[NINA]
Ahora que te encontré

[BENNY]
What will he say?

[NINA]
Qué dirá?

[BENNY]
When he sees me around you?
So how do you say "help me"?

[NINA]
Ayúdame

[BENNY]
And how do you say "promise me"?

[NINA]
Prométeme

[NINA/BENNY]
Promise me you’ll stay beyond the sunrise
I don’t care at all what people say beyond the sunrise

[NINA]
Promise me you’ll stay

[BENNY]
I’ll stay

[SONNY/PIRAGUA GUY/MEN]
Sunrise

[CARLA/VANESSA/WOMEN]
Sunrise

[DANIELA/WOMEN]
Sunrise

[USNAVI/GRAFFITI PETE/SONNY/MEN]
Sunrise

[BENNY]
And how do you say “kiss me"?

[NINA]
Bésame

[BENNY]
Bésame

[NINA]
Bésame

[BENNY]
And how do you say "always"?

[NINA]
Para siempre…

[BENNY]
Para siempre…
[SONNY/PIRAGUA GUY]
Sunrise
[CARLA/VANESSA]
Sunrise
[DANIELA/WOMEN]
Sunrise
[USNAVI/GRAFFITI PETE/MEN]
Sunrise

[COMMUNITY]
Al amanecer

[NINA]
Al amanecer

[BENNY]
Al amanecer

[COMMUNITY]
Al amanecer

[NINA/BENNY]
I will be there…
Al amanecer

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.

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