Lin-Manuel Miranda or better known as Alexander Hamilton, the starring role of the hit musical Hamilton: An American Musical. At the moment Miranda’s net worth is about ten million dollars. (https://www.celebritynetworth.com) He is set to make about six million dollars in this year alone, which is about sixty times what his cast members make. Though before he was making millions and becoming a household name he was just a little boy.
On January 16, 1980 Lin-Manuel Miranda was born in Manhattan, New York City, NY. His parents are Luis A. Miranda, Jr. and Dr. Luz Towns-Miranda.
His father is a Puerto Rico native and an author. “In the 1980s he was a special advisor for Hispanic affairs to Mayor Edward I. Koch, and served as Director of the
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Mayor’s Office for HIspanic Affairs from 1987 to 1989.” (http://www.mirramgroup.com/luis-miranda-jr/) He was very involved in Hispanic Affairs for the Mayor and was delegated for the Board of NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation by Mayor Koch in the year 1989. He was involved in politics for a lot of years, mainly residing in NYC. He was a strong advocate for Hispanics and Hispanic rights. He came out with first (and only) book in 1980. It is titled: Chasing the American Dream: Jobs, Schools, and Employment Training Programs in New York State. While you might only see him in cameos on Lin’s social media, he still works hard as publisher for the MirRam Group, Manhattan Times and Bx Free Press. Lin’s mother was also born in Puerto Rico. She seems to be out of the spotlight when it comes to Lin’s fame. She may not make feature cameos on twitter, mostly because she works as a doctor in the field of psychology. And she was named People en Espanol’s Most powerful women. (http://peopleenespanol.com/chica/lin-manuel-mirandas-mom-talks-about-her-son/) Both of Lin’s parents are of Puerto Rican descent, which makes Lin Puerto Rican, but his ancestry is much more complicated than that. His mom’s side has some black ancestors. And his history is quite confusing. For the most part he prides himself on being Puerto Rican and embraces his hispanic side. Lin has 1 older sister Luz Miranda-Crespo. Whom has a different father than Lin. He grew up in a Hispanic neighborhood in northern Manhattan. (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lin-Manuel-Miranda) “After attending Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School, Miranda graduated from Wesleyan University in 2002.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin-Manuel_Miranda) “As a child, Miranda wrote jingles, including one later used for Eliot Spitzer's 2006 gubernatorial campaign.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin-Manuel_Miranda) He started finding his passion for music very early on. “He was in nearly every school play and his love of music was fostered at home as a child.” (http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/things-hamiltons-lin-manuel-miranda/story?id=38842029) His mother also said “He loved to sing.” Lin’s passion for for making and performing music got him to where he is in his career today. His degree from Wesleyan University was Theater Major. Lin graduated with honors. This quote was from Lin’s speech at the 183rd Commencement ceremony on May 24. (Located at Wesleyan University.) “I came to Wesleyan intending to double major in theater and film, but I fell in love with the instant gratification of student theater. You’re telling me I can write something in the fall, apply to Second Stage, get a budget and put it up in the spring?! I am not throwing away my shot! By the end of freshman year, I’d been in two musicals, a play and directed my own 20-minute musical in the Westco Café. My future collaborator, Tommy Kail, is directing a series of one acts on the same weekend: He’s a senior and I’m a freshman. He graduates that year and we never meet.” All throughout his early childhood and teens, all the way up to his years at college. He was constantly learning, writing, and practicing music. Lin had his first start on Broadway with his own musical In the Heights. It was first played on April 20, 1999. It went on to last until 2016. (Having a world tour, but not with the original broadway cast.) It was a long process and it doesn’t really feature Lin’s best voice, but what it did have was his culture and diversity. The musical has some songs in spanish and features a predominantly hispanic cast.(In the original broadway cast.) The story takes place in a hispanic neighborhood in New York. Similar to Lin’s upbringing. The musical is set to shed light on the subject of racism. It talks about a young latina woman who struggles to find herself after moving back home. The musical went on to win the Tony award for best musical, Tony award for Best Original Score, Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music. The next musical that Lin started to work on was Bring it on: The Musical. He didn’t actually have a role in this musical. He did help with writing the lyrics and composing the music. Although he didn’t have a physical character in the story, his genius still brought together this musical in a refreshing way. The musical was not as successful as the movie, but still had a lively audience. Although it was only a partial area of work, it is still a noticeable piece on Lin’s portfolio. 21 Chump Street, one of history's shortest musicals. With a run time of about only 15 minutes. The play-right and music was composed by Lin. It was based off a true story better known as “The American Life.” It showcases some comedic anecdotes, but it also gives viewers a deeper view. It depicts love and pain and the corrupt justice system. It is still a Lin favorite. Next, We will talk the hit sensation, Hamilton.
If you have been living under a rock for the last 2 years you wouldn’t know what or maybe even who “Hamilton” is. This is the point in Lin-manuel Miranda’s career that he finally gets noticed. This musical took the nation and even the world by storm. It first premiered on September 25, 2015, but didn't really get any recognition until early 2017. The musical is based off the true events of and the leading of the American Revolution. The characters include: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, Eliza Schuyler, and Thomas Jefferson. There are so many more historic characters, but the list just goes on. The musical first got attention when Lin performed the song “Hamilton Mixtape” at a poetry night at the White House. Even President Obama admits that “we all laughed at first.” Lin goes on to say that he loved how Hamilton used his words. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5VqyCQV1Tg) This is his first performace at the White House - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnE. It took Lin a astounding 6 years to write the musical. His inspiration came from reading the book Alexander Hamilton, a book by Ron Chernow. “Lin-Manuel Miranda, precocious Tony-winning playwright and composer, lyricist and actor, takes a well-deserved vacation from his hit musical In the Heights. This is 2008. He is not yet 30 years old. Looking for a beach book, he buys Ron Chernow’s immense 2004 biography of Alexander Hamilton. In a white hammock under a blue sky beneath a hot yellow sun he reads the defining work of popular scholarship about our most mysterious founding father, and long before he’s 50 pages into it he’s wondering to himself who might have already made this extraordinary story into a play. Into a musical. He searches. Finds nothing. No
one.” (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/lin-manuel-miranda-ingenuity-awards-180957234/) He started wroking on some few songs inspired by Hamilton and the book. He ends up posting them to YouTube and they go viral. With that he began his journey to perform at the White House. It becomes January 2015 and before we know it, Hamilton becomes a sensation. President Obama and Vice-President Pence have seen the musical. With the controversy of the week. Usually you wouldn’t be allowed to record a play or musical, but during the end of the musical they encouraged people to take out their phones and record their choice words for the (then) Vice-President Elect Mike Pence. “And I encourage everyone to pull out their phones, and tweet and post, because this message needs to be spread far and wide, Okay?” Brandon Victor Dixon also said “We, sir -- we are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights.” The crowd started to boo and cheer. Dixon later exclaimed that "We truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us." The issue did not sit well with President Trump. He released a statement on twitter stating that “The cast and producers of Hamilton, which I hear is highly overrated, should immediately apologize to Mike Pence for their terrible behavior.” The issue eventually got swept over by a wave of more news, but it obviously showed the views of both sides. The musical has made over $100 million a year. It is making about $1.9 million a week. The show is on a world tour without the original Broadway cast. Lin has promised that the tour with be shown in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2019. Where he himself will get back into the character and play as the lead Alexander Hamilton again. If you didn’t know already San Juan is the birthplace of his father and mother. The musical has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and Lin himself has won over 19 awards with the musical Hamilton. Lin has about 37 awards in total and 73 nominations. He has a star on the Puerto Rico Walk of Fame and is set to have his own star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2018. He has recently kept busy by working with Disney and their recent movie Moana. Lin wrote a song used in the film and helped write the entire music score. He is also working on a “secret” Disney film. “He’ll soon fly to London to start filming the studio’s sequel Mary Poppins Returns.” (http://www.vulture.com/2016/11/lin-manuel-miranda-making-a-secret-disney-film.html) For now he is awaiting the arrival of his second child with wife of 7 years, Vanessa Nadal. They have one son already, Sebastian Miranda. Sebastian is 3 years old and not many fans have ever seen his face, Lin is constantly posting pictures. Yet, somehow a very intricate placed object gets placed just in the view of the child’s face. And with no doubt they will do the same with their next child. Lin’s wife Vanessa Nadal was born in New York City, New York. She is 35 years of age. “She has worked as an associate for the international law firm Jones Day in New York City.” (https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/vanessa-nadal.html) She is expecting her second child with Lin and is very supportive of his work. Lin-Manuel Miranda is a lyrical genius, he loves music and his voice is spectacular. He spent years trying to write and compose his musicals. Combing hip-hop with the founding father. Mixing his hispanic background with a lively musical. He works tirelessly and he brings light into issues happening to in the world. And personally I feel as if we need more artists like this in this generation. I believe Lin will keep making way in the musical world until he is a household name. (Though most people in the music industry already know this brilliant man.)
He accuses Jefferson of being “off getting high with the French” while “we — (being Hamilton and other true Americans, in this case directly associating him with George Washington, who was with Hamilton in the situation referred to here, the siege at Yorktown) — almost died in a trench.” In a final contrast to Hamilton himself, he describes Jefferson as “hesitant” and “reticent.” Hamilton, neither of those things, finishes with the mature “Damn, you’re in worse shape than the national debt is in / Sittin’ there useless as two shits / Hey, turn around, bend over, I’ll show you where my shoe fits.” By that point, the Congress is so involved that they don’t wait for a pause to laugh and they even provide a chanted accompaniment to the last lines before erupting into chaos. It takes George Washington to calm everyone down, and though Jefferson taunts that Hamilton doesn’t “have the votes,” Hamilton walks away from the battle the clear
You may of heard about the musical Hamilton, witch is about the great founding father Alexander Hamilton. Do you know all the other facts about his life? Here are some of his biggest facts.
The discourse of America, a nation built upon the foundations written by men, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton contributed a great ordeal of their lives into the creation of it. From similar childhoods to conflicting perceptions of government, Jefferson and Hamilton paved the way for the future of the nation. Through the comparison of Jefferson and Hamilton, by using factors of character, politics, and legacy, it is beyond question that Hamilton’s ambitious personality, politically involved nature, and estate truly resonates with history on a higher account compared to Jefferson.
Of the many figures in American History, Alexander Hamilton has proven himself one of the most versatile and influential. His policies and ideals have helped the United States blossom into a prosperous world power. Through his power as secretary of Treasury and his convincing intellectual efforts, he was able to dominate the nations early political environment. Hamilton’s patriotic endeavors have proven themselves to be durable and in the best interests of the United States.
Alexander Hamilton was born a bastard child in the West Indies and demonstrated great intellectual potential at an early age. He was sent to New York City for schooling and studied at King’s College, now Columbia University. His vision of America took a more capitalistic tone and “he was determined to transform an economically weak and fractious cluster of states into a powerful global force” (Tindall & Shi, 2010). Hamilton advocated a strong central government. He was bold and persuasive and his philosophies quite extraordinary for his time.
Lin-Manuel Miranda was born January 16, 1980, to Puerto Rican parents in the Latino neighborhood of Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan, New York. He grew up as a cultural outsider with a deep understanding of his
After his death, Hamilton’s legacy was mainly carried on by his wife, Eliza, who dedicated her life to preserving his legacy and making sure that he was not forgotten while she was alive. After Alexander’s death, Eliza told his story through doing things such as helping raise money for his mentor and friend, George Washington’s, memorial, and founding the first private orphanage in New York City which paid respect to her late husband who was an orphan. She also made Hamilton’s life and letters accessible, so that Alexander’s history would be easier to trace back to. She also spoke out about issues that Hamilton felt strongly about, such as slavery. Eliza made it her life goal to continue Hamilton’s legacy onto generations to come, which, indeed it has. Since Alexander’s death, his life has been documented through several biographies, most popularly, Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow which inspired the Grammy and Tony award winning Broadway show, Hamilton: An American Musical. Since Hamilton first came to Broadway, Alexander and Eliza Hamilton have been given the recognition that they had not been given, but rightfully deserve.
Did you know that Alexander Hamilton is on the 10 dollar bill? The american revolution started when the english redcoats fired into a crowd of unarmed innocent people. The news spread around america quicker than it got to the king. This was a very big point in history. Alexander Hamilton grew up on the island of Nevis, British West Indies on January 1755 or 1747. During the revolution Hamilton was appointed first secretary of the treasury where he helped a lot with the debt that the revolution caused. In 1777 hamilton became George Washington's assistant. Hamilton was also promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the Continental Army. When he was washington's assistant he wrote a lot of washington's letters and wrote reports on
This book may be aimed towards the audience of adults, but I hope that soon teenagers will soon become interested in History. I have alway been a huge fan of American History, but I do not like to read. This book though I do want to read, because of the amazing explanations of “The Duel.” Ever since this broadway show Hamilton by Lin Manuel Miranda I have wanted to learn more about the life of Alexander Hamilton,. Whenever I find a book that describes Hamilton’s life I want to read it, and i'm glad I read Founding Brothers. Within this book Ellis uses many quotes from Hamilton and Burr which is personally one of my favorite parts. The quotes of Hamilton is one of my favorite parts of the book because of Hamilton's amazing skills with a paper and pen. Another element of the book I enjoyed is the still problematic conclusion of Hamilton's death. In “The Duel” there were two shots fired, one by Hamilton and one by Burr. There are two hypothesis’ shared in the book on who shot first. This is important to me because the author was not biased and did not only include one option, I feel like in doing this they gave the reader a choice of which conclusion they want. Joseph J. Ellis did not only stay unbiased he also included some fun and interesting little tidbits throughout the story. When I say this I mean when he described the connection between the weapons used in “The Duel.”
Leonard Bernstein was born on August 25, 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. Leonard's father, Samuel immigrated to America in 1908 at the age of sixteen from the Russian province of Volhynia where he came from a long line of rabbis. (Gradenwitz 1987: 20)
Alexander Hamilton was disliked by many people but, he is now popular because of a hit Broadway show created by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Hamilton was born on January 11, 1755 or 1757 in Charleston, Nevis in the British West Indies. He was abandoned by his father which made him an orphan at the age of 13. Hamilton started attending school in Elizabethtown, New Jersey but, plans changed, and he entered Kings College. At the age of 17 he was already interested in government. Later, in 1776 he was introduced to George Washington. He became Washington’s advisor not long after that. Some main events that changed Hamilton’s life were his family, his accomplishments, and George Washington.
Alexander Hamilton was born as a British subject on the island of Nevis in the West Indies on the 11th of January 1755. His father, James Hamilton -- Scottish merchant of St. Christopher – was the younger son of a minor Scottish noble. His mother, Rachel Fawcett Levine was married a Danish proprietor of St. Croix named John Michael Levine. Ms. Levine left her husband John and was later divorced from him on June 25, 1759, two years after Alexander was born. His parents soon separated. However, Alexander grew up with his mother and his brother James, living on the ragged edge of poverty. He had no further contact with his father, and when his mother died in 1768, he became an orphan at the age of 11 (Hamilton).
Alexander Hamilton was a great man that will be remembered for being a great major general of the armed forces of the United States of America. As well as the secretary of the treasury. In 1769, at twelve years old he had a job as a clerk in a general store and Alexander dreaded spending the rest of his life there. He wanted something more for his future. He wished for a war to occur. He wanted to prove himself to be more worthy then a clerk. To his thinking, only some brilliant and heroic act on the battle field would give me a chance to achieve his hopes. He seemed to be doomed to a life of clerking. For one thing, he was at the bottom of a social ladder. His parents, who never married, separated when Hamilton was nine, and his mother was forced to support her two sons by running a grocery from one of the rooms in their tiny home. When she died two years later, the boys were all alone. There was not even a cousin who could afford to take them in.
The broadway hit play Hamilton, written by Lin Manuel Miranda, is viewed as an educational play about Alexander Hamilton, one of the United States’ founding fathers and the first Secretary of the Treasury. The play captures the spirit of Alexander Hamilton’s ambition, eloquence, and mistakes in a revolutionary format-as revolutionary as Hamilton himself! Combining rap, musical theater, and history, Hamilton is an enthralling and entertaining play that is mostly accurate to the real Alexander Hamilton. The details of Hamilton’s life and relationships that were misrepresented in the play to achieve the theatrical flair.
True to Miranda’s description, Hamilton tells the story of Alexander Hamilton so that Americans of today can relate. For instance, Hamilton uses modern hip-hop music style to amplify a better interpretation for the everyday American. For many Americans this style of music rings true to their struggles in daily life and is easily understood compared to the traditional form of music in musical theater. As shown throughout Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton went through similar struggles throughout his life. He is an immigrant who lost his mother, is not recognized by his father, and came to America for a better life. A pretentious rendition would not have done the justice to his story compared to how hip-hop/rap does. Additionally, Hamilton’s need for modern skills opens the door for non-traditional student performers. When many people go to try out for a musical they will find themselves performing a song, dance, monologue or a mixture of the three. Hamilton allows a wider spectrum of talent to be requested for the show. Thus, the requirements will encourage new talent. Many are intimidated by traditional theater and discourage themselves from auditioning. It is scary to try something new and easy to do something you are used to. Hamilton’s style will be more relatable to those who may have a bit of an interest in musical theater but never bothered trying because they felt like they could not compete. After