Lin-Manuel Miranda Channels Rafael Nadal When he’s Writing Songs – Billboard

Lin-Manuel Miranda has a superpower. He collects awards like no-one else.

The multi-hyphenate musicals grasp has two Emmys, three Grammys, three Tonys, and a Pulitzer Prize. Along with his latest Academy Award nomination for Encanto, he may attain EGOT standing, all at age 42.

On Monday evening (March 14), Miranda stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Stay for a chat and to poke enjoyable at his personal success.

The animated Disney movie’s “Dos Oruguitas,” for which which Miranda composed the music and lyrics, is nominated for greatest unique track on the 2022 Oscars. 

How a lot does he need that EGOT? Absolutely he’d kill for a shot at glory, Kimmel pressed on the high of their spot.

“It’s like stats,” Miranda explains. “When (Spanish tennis champion) Rafa Nadal broke the report for many Opens, he wasn’t serious about breaking the report. He was simply serious about, ‘there’s a ball coming at me very quick. And I’ve to hit the ball again.’ And that’s how I really feel once I’m writing the tune. It’s like any person throwing a ball at me.”

Good volley.

Talking of smashes, Kimmel additionally requested concerning the magical components that went into “We Don’t Discuss About Bruno.”

Miranda had no thought it could be the worldwide hit that it has turn out to be. “Group numbers are by no means the hit, you may’t sing them,” he explains. “It’s often the ballad or the villain track of one thing else. The group numbers are the issues that theater youngsters like and nobody else likes, as a result of they get to sing it at their solid occasion.”

“Bruno” has solid a spell on gross sales charts across the globe.

The ensemble track – by Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz and the Encanto Solid – logged a number of weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100, changing into simply the second No. 1 ever from a Disney animated movie, and the primary chief for Miranda, for the track’s sole author.

Additionally, it’s the primary unique Disney launch to hit No. 1 on the Official U.Okay. Singles Chart, the place it stayed for seven weeks.

Throughout his stint on Kimmel, the pair talked Andrew Garfield, and reminisced concerning the loopy finale of the 2017 Oscars, which the speak present star hosted. Miranda additionally taped a sketch for the late-night present, selling a “miracle treatment” for these struggling underneath the fixed rotation of Encanto songs, a “first of its type tablet,” dubbed Encantix. It’s like magic, simply stick the tablets in every ear canal. Unwanted side effects embody exploding jazz arms. 

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