Lin-Manuel Miranda

Released: June 12, 2016

Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Producer: Lin-Manuel Miranda

This envelope says Lin, but it's not entirely Lin's
Cause when you work with Tommy Kail, the best idea wins
When Alex finds a place to cut, or Andy needs more bars
You can't think this is mine, you can only think this is ours
Is it 'are's or is it 'owr's, well it's hours of re-writing
You talk Burr with Oskar and Jeffrey and keep igniting
That spark into a flame, make a mark, arrange the frame
Hit your target and change the game, earn the hyphen in your name
You let Daveed Diggs turn your couplet into a triplet
You give him the mic, he grips it and spits it, rips it and flips it
You turn back to this envelope that says you win
You think about your father and how scared he must have been
When he came to New York City and he didn't speak the language
So you give Hamilton all his hunger, genius, and anguish
And you vanquish self-doubt by perfecting your lines of text
Then you call Tommy Kail and you say, "What's next?"

Thank you so much

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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