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lin manuel miranda

By bavella
  • birth place

    birth place
    Born in 1980 in New York City
  • Childhood

    Childhood
    Miranda and his sister grew up in a musically-oriented family. Both siblings taking piano lessons and were encouraged by their parents who loved the music of Broadway. (Luis particularly adores the show The Unsinkable Molly Brown.) While the Mirandas weren’t able to routinely see live performances, they were nonetheless able to listen to cast recordings.
  • first job

    first job
    first job was at McDonalds.
  • collage

    collage
    graduating from Hunter College Elementary School[
  • started hip hop

    started hip hop
    During his time there, he co-founded a hip hop comedy troupe called Freestyle Love Supreme.
  • Broadway

    Broadway
    In 2002, Miranda and John Buffalo Mailer worked with director Thomas Kail and wrote five successive drafts of In the Heights, which he had begun to write in his time at Wesleyan.[4][7] After success off-Broadway, the musical went to Broadway in 2008.[4] It won the Tony Award for Best Musical and for Best Original Score
  • Creating Hamiton

    Creating Hamiton
    n July 2008, Miranda read Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton on vacation and, inspired by the book, wrote a rap about Hamilton for the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on May 12, 2009, accompanied by Alex Lacamoire. Miranda later said he spent a year writing the Hamilton song "My Shot".
  • Hamilton rewards

    Hamilton rewards
    In 2015, Chernow and Miranda received the 2015 History Makers Award by the New York Historical Society for their work in creating Hamilton.