Lin-Manuel Miranda likes to tell the story of his first piano recital at age six. He played one song and received a round of applause. So he played another one. More applause followed. Spurred by this unexpected acclaim, he kept going through all the songs he knew until he was yanked offstage. “If I ever write a biography,” he joked, “it’ll be called I Know Another One .”

I thought of this childhood lesson when I travelled to Puerto Rico in January 2019 to see Miranda return to the title role in Hamilton . After Hurricane Maria devastated his parents’ birthplace, he became the stateside ambassador for relief efforts and quickly put together a charity single. As I listened to the track on the flight over the Caribbean, I glanced at the copyright data on my phone. The single was registe

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