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Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Perhaps his best-known work was Hamilton , a hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton. Miranda was born to parents of Puerto Rican origin and grew up in a Hispanic neighbourhood in northern Manhattan. His father was a political consultant to several New York City mayors, and his mother was a psychologist.
Lin-Manuel Miranda born January 16, [1] is an American composer, lyricist, actor, singer, rapper, producer, and playwright. He created and starred in the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton. Miranda wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical In the Heights. The stage musical has been made into a film, also titled In the Heights , which is scheduled to be released in June He gained wider recognition for writing the script, music and lyrics for Hamilton , which has been acclaimed as a pop culture phenomenon since its Broadway premiere in The Hamilton cast recording spent ten weeks atop Billboard ' s Top Rap Albums chart in ; Billboard subsequently listed it as the eleventh-biggest album of the s. He hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time in and earned his first Emmy award nomination for acting. Miranda has been politically active, most notably on behalf of Puerto Rico. Luz Towns-Miranda, a clinical psychologist, and Luis A.