"I remember a young playwright of Puerto Rican descent named Lin-Manuel Miranda, who told us in the photo line before an evening of poetry, music, and the spoken word that he planned to debut the first song of what he hoped would be a hip-hop musical on the life of America's first Treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton. We were politely encouraging but secretly skeptical, until he got up onstage and started dropping beats and the audience went absolutely nuts."
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Composers from the United StatesActors from New York CitySinger-songwriters from the United StatesPlaywrights from the United StatesHispanic Americans
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Barack Obama A Promised Land (2020)
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