Biography
Lin-Manuel Miranda was born in 1980 in New York City as the son of Puerto Rican parents and has revolutionised American music theatre in the twenty-first century. His musical Hamilton tells the story of founding father Alexander Hamilton with hip-hop, R&B, and Broadway traditions and became a cultural phenomenon in 2015. Already with In the Heights he won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2008 and brought the stories of the Latin American community in Washington Heights to the Broadway stage. Miranda has been honoured with the Pulitzer Prize, several Tony Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship. As actor, composer, lyricist, and rapper, he unites a diversity of talents that makes him the formative theatrical voice of his generation. His work for Disney, including the music for Moana and Encanto, reached a million-strong audience. Miranda lives in New York and is strongly engaged for Puerto Rico.
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