Latest Release
- OCT 18, 2024
- 27 Songs
- Hamilton: An American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) · 2015
- Hamilton: An American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) · 2015
- Hamilton: An American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) · 2015
- Hamilton: An American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) · 2015
- Moana (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack/Deluxe Edition) · 2016
- Hamilton: An American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) · 2015
- Hamilton: An American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) · 2015
- Hamilton: An American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) · 2015
- Hamilton: An American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) · 2015
- Hamilton: An American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) · 2015
Essential Albums
- Disney takes us back to the sea for an adventure about home, tradition, and growing up. Composed by the Samoan musician Opetaia Foa’i, Mark Mancina (who helped put a South African spin on Elton John’s songs for The Lion King), and Hamilton mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda, the movie’s soundtrack is an uplifting mix of Disney storytelling and traditional Oceanian music, sung both in English and the Polynesian language of Tokelau. It also features beautiful performances by Hawaiian actress Auli’i Cravalho, who voices the film’s heroine, Moana.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash Broadway show celebrating the life of Founding Father and American icon Alexander Hamilton winds its tale ingeniously around a series of sinuous hip-hop and R&B grooves. The twists and turns of Hamilton’s complex story mirror the deft, sometimes tongue-twisting turns the performers take in their delivery. It’s not all hip-hop; the ’60s-influenced pop of “You’ll Be Back” and the classical influence of “Take a Break” underline Miranda’s range, and it all adds up to a visionary redefinition of musical theater.
Albums
Artist Playlists
- Gems large and small from a renowned crossover dreamer.
- “I’m just readjusting to the new rules.”
Compilations
Appears On
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About Lin-Manuel Miranda
For acclaimed composer, actor, and director Lin-Manuel Miranda, creative inspiration comes from a range of sources: His Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Hamilton, for example, was a groundbreaking epic that retold the history of America’s first Secretary of the Treasury via old-school braggart hip-hop (“My Shot”) and powerhouse R&B (“Satisfied”) with the flair of a well-studied musical-theater nerd. Born in 1980 in New York City to Puerto Rican parents, Miranda creates cross-cultural work inspired by the communities he was surrounded in. His first Broadway musical, In the Heights, was based on the Washington Heights neighborhood he spent time in and reflected a desire to bring Latino characters and Latin music front and center, such as in the salsa-driven “The Club” and the heart-wrenching immigrant ballad “Paciencia Y Fe.” Miranda brings his talents beyond the theater as well, having written soaring music for heroines (“How Far I’ll Go”), and ear-wormy Colombian pop (“We Don’t Talk About Bruno”) for the Disney hits Moana and Encanto.
- HOMETOWN
- New York, NY, United States
- BORN
- January 16, 1980
- GENRE
- Musicals