It’s good to be Lin-Manuel Miranda. He has three songs on the Disney soundtrack to Encanto, which currently sits at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Album Charts. He’s up for a Best Original …
; Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, co-writers of “No Time to Die” from; SHOF inductee and Johnny Mercer Award winner Van Morrison, writer of “Down To Joy” fromRelated Story“When they make a movie, it becomes a lot of people’s first glimpse at that culture, for better or worse. And so they take it really seriously. And so I, you know, I had a good experience on and I said, ‘If you’re making a Latin-themed, Disney musical, like, I’ve been waiting all my life for the call.
Miranda also created original tracks “The Family Madrigal,” “What Else Can I Do,” and “Waiting On A Miracle.” forOscar track is one of the first times Miranda has written a song in Spanish. “I think every artist on here will agree with me. I think a lot of the road to writing the right song is like figuring out what is not the right song first. And this moment in the film is kind of the foundational story of this family. It’s a deeply traumatic story. And it kind of needed to be in Spanish. It’s a weird song for me, not just because of the Spanish. I’ve written in Spanish before, never a full-length song like this.
He continued, “And so, the job kind of became to write a folk song that feels like it’s always existed, that can hold what’s happening on screen. And so again, how do you write a song that feels like it’s always existed without outright copying a song? And the answer for me was, like, find a, like a really perfect nature metaphor for it.
The virtual event will also be available to watch for a limited time on the Songwriters Hall of Fame website
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