Hamilton Composer Lin-Manuel Miranda Writing Music for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in Disney’s Moana

Lin Manuel Miranda is Broadway’s King – bad ass and an honor for me to sing and rap the music he’s created for our movie. Creator and star of HAMILTON and IN THE HEIGHTS – as a composer and lyricist it’s been an unreal “Master Class” for me to witness and learn. I’m just trying to keep up😂. I have a feeling our animated musical is gonna be insanely dope. #Disney #MOANA #DontSleepOnMySpitSkills #NOV2016

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Lin-Manuel Miranda has skyrocketed into the hearts of fans across genres this past year, what with his smash hit musical Hamilton (with a Grammy-nominated sountrack), plus the Cantina theme he composed for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and this update from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson saying that Miranda will lend his composition talents to Disney’s Moana. YESss. The Rock plays demigod Maui in the movie, and he’ll “sing and rap” — and, as his hashtag proclaims, he has the “spit skills” to perform whatever rhymes Miranda pens. Miranda sounds confident that the Rock can pull it off:

Speaking of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rapidly rising star, the Grammy’s just announced that Hamilton cast will perform their show’s opening number during the awards. As stated, Hamilton has been nominated for the Best Musical Theatre Album award.

So do we have to watch the entire Grammy’s, just for the chance to make more Hamilton gifs? Oh, all right, then!

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Maddy Myers, journalist and arts critic, has written for the Boston Phoenix, Paste Magazine, MIT Technology Review, and tons more. She is a host on a videogame podcast called Isometric (relay.fm/isometric), and she plays the keytar in a band called the Robot Knights (robotknights.com).

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