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Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Also known as LMM, Lin Manuel Miranda

American songwriter and composer (born 1980)

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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

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1980-01-16
broadwaydisneyhip hopmusicaltheatre

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
758,789
Total plays
28,973,508

Tags

musicalhamiltonlmmfucking geniusMaestro Miranda

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

via Last.fm · Lin-Manuel Miranda

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…

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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

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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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