![]() Trump said he wants to bail out Puerto Rico. “I am longing and waiting and jumping up and down for a federal response to match the response of our people.” They have not yet gotten an unprecedented federal response,” Miranda said. “This was an unprecedented disaster and requires an unprecedented federal response. Many communities there are still waiting for power and clean water. Miranda has been critical of President Donald Trump’s response to Hurricane Maria but had nothing but praise for the ordinary Americans who have sent diapers, baby formula, batteries and money and other aid to the island. The Tony, Emmy and Grammy-winning Miranda has long used his megaphone for social causes, including asking Congress to help dig Puerto Rico out of its debt crisis, performing at a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton on Broadway, lobbying to stop gun violence in America and teaming up with Jennifer Lopez on the benefit single “Love Make the World Go Round.” I’ve never seen such mobilization in my life,” Miranda said. (Ricky Martin and Daddy Yankee were too busy with relief efforts to join in). “That gives you an example of the effort and the cooperation involved.”Īlso featured on the song are Ruben Blades, Pedro Capo, Dessa, Juan Luis Guerra, Alex Lacamoire, Ednita Nazario, Joell Ortiz, Anthony Ramos, Gina Rodriguez, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Tommy Torres and Ana Villafane. Hailed by USA Today as Pure Genie-Us, ALADDIN features all your favorite songs from the film as well as new music written by Tony and Academy Award winner Alan Menken (Newsies) with lyrics penned by the legendary Howard Ashman (Beauty and the Beast), Tony Award winner Tim Rice (The Lion King, Aida), and book writer Chad Beguelin. We screamed, ‘We got this verse out of Puerto Rico!'” said Miranda. ![]() On Monday night, while Miranda was working on the song in Miami, Estefan sent him a photo of her holding a memory stick - containing the missing verse. Estefan, who was flying to Puerto Rico the next day on a relief mission, volunteered to pick it up. Sin Suela found one in San Juan and recorded the verse but couldn’t get enough bandwidth to email it to Miranda. He offered to help and Miranda asked if there was a studio nearby where he could record a verse. Sin Suela finally answered on Saturday, saying he was on the island and had just gotten power. ![]() Miranda reached out to the rapper PJ Sin Suela but never heard back. One verse turned out to be exceedingly hard to get. “I cannot wait for Puerto Ricans to hear Luis Fonsi sing the name of their town or J.Lo to sing the name of their town.” “This song is designed so that those towns never feel forgotten again,” he said. Miranda said he didn’t want inland and mountainous communities to be ignored as bigger cities get power and food. The song’s lyrics list all of the 78 towns of Puerto Rico. The song borrows from “Maria,” the classic song from Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s “West Side Story” and Miranda said the song popped into his head after the hurricane by the same name devastated Puerto Rico on Sept.
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