The star-studded forged of WARRIORS, co-written by Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The Heights, Hamilton, Moana) and Eisa Davis (Bulrusher, Angela’s Mixtape) is ready to debut all over the place on October 18, 2024. The Warriors 26-song idea album is impressed by the 1979 Paramount Image cult basic, ‘The Warriors’, primarily based on the Sol Yurick novel of the identical identify.
An immersive listening expertise, WARRIORS follows a fictitious New York Metropolis gang from Coney Island to the Bronx and again when they’re framed for the homicide of a revered gang chief, Cyrus.
The WARRIORS, “THE TURNBULL AC’S” will function: MARC ANTHONY as TATO, LUIS FIGUEROA as MIGUEL, FLACO NAVAJA as JESÚS, and CHRIS RIVERS as THE BRONX. Extra voices might be introduced quickly.
WARRIORS is government produced by GRAMMY award-winning rapper New York Metropolis native NAS. It’s produced by GRAMMY award-winning musician MIKE ELIZONDO.
“We’ve spent the previous three years musicalizing the Warriors’ journey dwelling, from the South Bronx to Coney Island. Alongside the best way we’ve gotten to work with plenty of our favourite artists, and we’ll be saying their roles on the album within the weeks forward. We will’t wait to share these songs with you on October 18th.” ~Lin-Manuel Miranda & Eisa Davis
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ABOUT LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA:
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA is a Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award-winning songwriter, actor, director and producer. He’s the creator and authentic star of Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musicals, Hamilton and Within the Heights. The Unique Broadway Forged Recording of Hamilton received the 2016 Grammy Award for Finest Musical Theater Album. It was the first-ever Broadway forged recording to be licensed Diamond by the Recording Trade Affiliation of America. The Hamilton Mixtape, an idea album impressed by the present’s rating, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and acquired a 2017 MTV VMA Award for the video “Immigrants (We Get the Job Achieved).”
Miranda’s first musical, Within the Heights, acquired the Tony Award for Finest Rating. It took dwelling a 2009 Grammy Award for its Unique Broadway Forged Album. The soundtrack from the musical’s movie adaptation acquired a 2022 Grammy nomination. His further Broadway credit embody New York, New York (Extra Lyrics, Tony nomination for Finest Musical), Freestyle Love Supreme (Co-Founder, Visitor Star, Particular Tony Award Recipient), Carry It On: The Musical (co-composer/co-lyricist, Tony nomination for Finest Musical), and West Aspect Story (2009 revival, Spanish translations).
Miranda wrote eight authentic songs for Disney’s Academy Award-winning animated function, Encanto. The Encanto soundtrack spent 9 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart . All eight of Miranda’s songs from the movie appeared on the Billboard Sizzling 100 in the identical week. “We Don’t Speak About Bruno” turned the primary No. 1 tune on Billboard’s Sizzling 100 to be launched by Walt Disney Information. With 5 weeks at No. 1, “Bruno” now holds the file for many weeks on the high of the charts for any tune from a Disney movie (animated or live-action).
Miranda acquired a 2022 Oscar nomination for Finest Unique Music for “Dos Oruguitas.” Encanto received three 2023 Grammys, together with two for Miranda. He was named Billboard’s Prime Sizzling 100 Songwriter of 2022. He contributed music and lyrics to Disney’s Moana which earned him a 2017 Oscar nomination and a 2018 Grammy Award for the unique tune, “How Far I’ll Go.” Miranda is penning the songs for the upcoming movie, Mufasa: The Lion King, in theaters December 20, 2024. Charity singles embody: “Love Make The World Go Spherical” with Jennifer Lopez, a tribute to the victims of the 2016 Orlando nightclub taking pictures; “Discovered/Tonight” with Ben Platt, and composers Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, to assist March For Our Lives; and “Virtually Like Praying,” benefiting the Hispanic Federation’s UNIDOS Catastrophe Aid and Restoration Program after Hurricane Maria. He lives together with his household in New York Metropolis.
ABOUT EISA DAVIS:
EISA DAVIS is an award-winning performer, author, musician, and composer engaged on stage and display. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play Bulrusher, and wrote and starred within the stage memoir Angela’s Mixtape, named a better of the 12 months by the New Yorker. Angela’s Mixtape is now revealed with The Historical past of Mild (Barrymore nomination) in a quantity from 53rd State Press / TCG. Of her 13 full-length stage works, highlights embody Ramp (Ruby Prize winner), The Essentialisn’t (Inventive Capital Award), and Mushroom (Barrymore nomination). Notable collaborations embody Cirque du Soleil’s first ice present, Crystal, AFROFEMONONOMY, and the songs for the musical adaptation of Walter Mosley’s Satan In A Blue Gown. Davis has launched two albums of authentic music: One thing Else, and Tinctures (with Daniel T. Denver), songs from which had been featured on the Showtime sequence Soul Meals.
Davis wrote for each seasons of Spike Lee’s Netflix sequence She’s Gotta Have It, and produced and wrote for the FX sequence Justified: Metropolis Primeval. As a theatre actor, she has earned an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, an AUDELCO, three Lucille Lortel nominations, and a Drama League nomination. She is thought for her display roles on Mare of Easttown, Kindred, The Wire, Home of Playing cards, Pose, Ahsoka, The Looming Tower, Hart of Dixie, and as a member of the unique Broadway forged of the Tony-winning Passing Unusual. She’s going to quickly be seen within the movies Relay and Ex-Husbands, and on the Netflix sequence The Insanity.
Different awards embody the USA Artist Fellowship, the distinguished Herb Alpert Award in Theatre, a playwright residency at New Dramatists, and a multiyear fellowship with Black poetry group Cave Canem. An advocate and creator of hip-hop theatre since its inception, Davis is a Bay Space native and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
WARRIORS photographs (Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, and poster )courtesy of Taylor Apel and Warner Music Group
