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Lin-Manuel Miranda
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American songwriter and composer (born 1980)
OverviewAI-generated
Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American male artist born on January 16, 1980. His work period began in 2005, and he has two children. His musical genres include broadway, disney, hip hop, musical, and theatre. Notable works listed include *In the Heights*, *In the Heights Songbook*, *You'll Be Back*, *Comedy Bang! Bang! the Podcast*, and *We Don't Talk about Bruno (Disney Encanto)*.
Miranda has been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, the Pulitzer Prize collection, and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. He maintains an official website and has 3,607,025 social media followers. On Last.fm, his music has been played 28,973,508 times by 758,789 listeners.
Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1980
- Works
- 51
Top works
- You'll Be Back
- Comedy Bang! Bang! the Podcast
- We Don't Talk about Bruno (Disney Encanto)
- In the Heights Songbook
- In the Heights
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1980-01-16
Discography
- Warriors2024
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 758,789
- Total plays
- 28,973,508
Tags
Lin-Manuel Miranda (born January 16, 1980 in New York, NY) is an American actor, singer, songwriter, rapper, director, producer & playwright, best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals In the Heights & Hamilton. Miranda wrote the music and lyrics for the musical In the Heights, which opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in March 2008. Miranda's written work for the show earned him numerous accolades, including the 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score and the
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,562x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,422x
- Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 29,434x
- Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context
· 2014 · cited 26,194x
- Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection
· 2017 · cited 24,411x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I think that if we’ve done our job well and we articulate this individual’s life well, the themes inherent in that translate…It’s about legacy, about how much do we do with the time we’re given? And then there are themes that wrestle with the American character, but only in that Hamilton’s life is a rough-draft version of the arguments we still have as a country.”
- “There are a few people who only like hip-hop music, and a few who only like theatre music, and the rest of us just like good shit. It doesn’t matter what form it comes in. I think we’re all a lot more eclectic than we give ourselves credit for…”
- “…I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time, and that's a great way to make a writer…”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1980-01-16 ) January 16, 1980 (age 46) , New York City , U.S.
- Education
- Wesleyan University ( BA )
- Occupations
- Songwriter actor filmmaker librettist
- Years active
- 2002–present
- Spouse
- Vanessa Nadal ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2010 )
- Parents
- Luis A. Miranda Jr. (father) Luz Towns-Miranda (mother)
- Relatives
- José Miranda (cousin) Eduardo Cabra (cousin) Residente (cousin)
- Awards
- Full list
- Website
- linmanuel .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Lin-Manuel Miranda (/mænˈwɛl/ man-WELL; born January 16, 1980) is an American songwriter, actor, filmmaker and librettist. He created the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton, and the soundtracks for the animated films Moana, Vivo, and Encanto. He has received numerous accolades including a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, three Tony Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Emmy Awards, and five Grammy Awards, along with nominations for two Academy Awards. He received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2018.
Miranda made his Broadway debut in 2008, writing the music and lyrics for and starring in the musical In the Heights, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. It was later adapted as a 2021 film of the same name. Miranda returned to Broadway in 2015, writing the script, music, and lyrics, as well as starring in the musical Hamilton, which was praised by critics and became a popular culture phenomenon. Hamilton won the Pulitzer Prize and was nominated for a record 16 Tonys and won 11, including Miranda's first win for the Best Book of a Musical. The Hamilton cast recording spent 10 weeks atop Billboard's Top Rap Albums chart and became the eleventh-biggest album of the 2010s.
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