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Born in 1980 in New York City
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Miranda and his sister grew up in a musically-oriented family. Both siblings taking piano lessons and were encouraged by their parents who loved the music of Broadway. (Luis particularly adores the show The Unsinkable Molly Brown.) While the Mirandas weren’t able to routinely see live performances, they were nonetheless able to listen to cast recordings.
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first job was at McDonalds.
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graduating from Hunter College Elementary School[
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During his time there, he co-founded a hip hop comedy troupe called Freestyle Love Supreme.
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In 2002, Miranda and John Buffalo Mailer worked with director Thomas Kail and wrote five successive drafts of In the Heights, which he had begun to write in his time at Wesleyan.[4][7] After success off-Broadway, the musical went to Broadway in 2008.[4] It won the Tony Award for Best Musical and for Best Original Score
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n July 2008, Miranda read Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton on vacation and, inspired by the book, wrote a rap about Hamilton for the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on May 12, 2009, accompanied by Alex Lacamoire. Miranda later said he spent a year writing the Hamilton song "My Shot".
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In 2015, Chernow and Miranda received the 2015 History Makers Award by the New York Historical Society for their work in creating Hamilton.
