Lin-Manuel Miranda is about to make history: If on March 27 he wins the Oscar for best original song for two caterpillarswill enter the select group of so-called EGOTpeople who have won a Emmy (television), a grammys (music), a Oscar (cinema) and Tony (theater).
“I remember when my first musical premiered I thought: ‘You will succeed or you won’t, but then I return to my normal life’ and… I never came back”, explains the composer, director and playwright originally puerto rican In an interview.
Only 16 people have that EGOTthe grand slam of the arts in the United States. Rita Moreno she is the only Latina who has achieved it.
Miranda (New York, 1980) entered the entertainment world stepping on Broadway with two musicals, In the Heights Y hamiltonwho accumulated 16 Tony Award nominationsthe maximum distinction of the theatrical circuit.
“With In The Heights we were on Broadway almost 3 years and I was famous in my neighborhood, 46th street and in Puerto Rico“, remember. “And with hamilton it changed my whole life“, Add.
Both stories celebrated the immigrant experience in the United Statesinfected their characters with Latino pride and shared with the public the lives of people who left their homes to seek a new opportunity.
“It was my way of ensuring a life in this world that I wanted, because there was only West Side Story and that was it,” he says.
If her stories worked, Miranda would accept responsibility for “give more opportunities to our artiststo our people, to Latinos.”
hamilton (available in Disney+) popularized the biography of one of the founders of the USA, Alexander Hamiltonthe first US Secretary of the Treasury, a man who was born in 1757 in the Caribbeanpoor, without family and emigrated to New York until he became the first Secretary of the Treasury of the North American country.
when in 2015 The Government wanted to replace Hamilton’s face on the $10 billsthe popularity of the musical stopped the plans.
In The Heightshis first work (can be seen in hbo max), narrated the life of the Manhattan neighborhood where Miranda grew up, washington heights, a little piece of the Caribbean in the Big Apple. He wrote it as a musical in 2002, and this summer, almost 20 years later, its film adaptation was released.
“The story came from a fear that told me ‘If I don’t write these characters, they won’t exist’”he maintains.
A round year in Hollywood
For Miranda, the jump from broadway to hollywood It has been tall.
In the same year, he has released four different projects: the film Tick, Tick… Boom! as director, the adaptation of In the Heights as a producer and actor, and animated films Alive Y Charm as composer of its soundtrack.
“This summer I took my first vacation with my wife in 13 years,” says the musician. Although the break did not last long, because when he returned to the United States he discovered that one of the songs he composed for Charm, We don’t talk about Brunohad become a worldwide phenomenon.
“I got an email from a friend I knew in college but hadn’t heard from in 15 years,” he recalls. “And it was a video of his daughter singing the song for days and days and days.”
Author of Disney’s biggest hit in three decades
A few weeks ago, We don’t talk about Bruno was done with him #1 on Billboard Hot 100the main music popularity chart in the United States.
Since 1993, with A whole new world of the tape Aladdinno other Disney song had done it.
The theme, which talks about the taboo topics of a family, has crossed borders with a virality among children that has not been seen since the famous let it go from Frozeneven if will not compete for the Oscar because Disney decided to present the ballad as a candidate two caterpillarssung in Spanish by Sebastián Yatra.
It will be this issue that gives Miranda the key to the EGOT club, but he has another award almost more inspiring, that of receiving messages of gratitude when there are Latino actors who find him and say that they found work with their characters. “I take that very seriously,” he says.
Source: Eluniverso
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