AUDIO: Lin-Manuel Miranda Reveals First Song He Ever Wrote - 'The Garbage Pail Kids Are In Town'!

By: Jun. 13, 2013
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Lin-Manuel Miranda has just released on SoundCloud the first recorded song he ever wrote, which he found on the back of a Fisher Price Cassette. The song is called "The Garbage Pail Kids Are In Town", and Miranda was almost 4 years old when he wrote the tune. Click below to listen!

"It goes on for another 6 minutes but then it becomes a haunting snapshot of one child's descent into loneliness and madness, so I cut it off after about 3 minutes," Miranda wrote on SoundCloud.

Lin-Manuel Miranda won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score for IN THE HEIGHTS and is part of the creative team for the Tony nominated musical BRING IT ON. Miranda is also the recipient of the 2007 ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award. His TV and film credits include: "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City." He is a co-founding member of Freestyle Love Supreme, a hip-hop comedy group that tours comedy festivals all over the world.


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