Lin Manuel Miranda

LinManuel Miranda is a Puerto Rican actor, composer, rapper and writer, best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton.

Miranda was born in the northern Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, and grew up in the adjacent Latino neighborhood of Inwood, but would spend a month every year in his grandparents home town Vega Alta in Puerto Rico. Mirandas parents are Puerto Rican. His father is a former political advisor, who advised New York City mayor Ed Koch. Growing up, Lin helped create jingles, including one used for Eliot Spitzers 2006 campaign.

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