Lin-Manuel Miranda & Eisa Davis Announce ‘WARRIORS’ Album
Tony Award-winning composer Lin-Manuel Miranda and Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa Davis are set to launch a brand new idea album titled WARRIORS, impressed by the cult-classic 1979 movie The Warriors and its supply novel by Sol Yurick.
The 26-song venture, which will likely be out there all over the place on Oct. 18 by way of Atlantic Records, follows a fictitious New York City gang from Coney Island to the Bronx and again when they’re framed for the homicide of a revered gang chief, Cyrus.
“We’ve spent the past three years musicalizing the Warriors’ journey home, from the South Bronx to Coney Island,” the co-writers acknowledged in a joint announcement. “Along the way, we’ve gotten to work with a lot of our favorite artists, and we’ll be announcing their roles on the album in the weeks ahead. We can’t wait to share these songs with you on Oct. 18.”
The venture boasts some severe hip-hop credentials behind the scenes. Grammy Award-winning rapper Nas serves as government producer, bringing his New York City roots to the desk. Meanwhile, Grammy-winning musician Mike Elizondo takes the helm as producer.
While the complete forged stays below wraps, the creators tease a “star-studded” lineup of voices to be revealed within the coming weeks. Lin-Manuel Miranda has already achieved notable Billboard success with initiatives like Hamilton, The Hamilton Mixtape, and the Encanto soundtrack.
Hamilton‘s forged recording gained a Grammy in 2016 for greatest musical theater album. It grew to become the first-ever Broadway forged recording to be licensed Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America.
The Hamilton Mixtape debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and Encanto‘s soundtrack, featuring the hit “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” dominated the charts, making Miranda Billboard’s Top Hot 100 Songwriter of 2022. He additionally contributed to the Moana soundtrack, incomes a Grammy and an Oscar nomination for “How Far I’ll Go.”
The venture additionally provides to the varied physique of labor of Eisa Davis, who’s an award-winning actor, author, and singer-songwriter recognized for her work on stage and display screen.
Davis was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play Bulrusher and wrote and starred in Angela’s Mixtape. She’s additionally written for tv collection comparable to Netflix’s She’s Gotta Have It and FX’s Justified: City Primeval, and she or he has appeared in quite a few theater productions and movies.
WARRIORS is out Oct. 18