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 mission, which will likely be out there in all places on Oct. 18 by way of Atlantic Data, 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.

“We’ve spent the previous three years musicalizing the Warriors’ journey dwelling, from the South Bronx to Coney Island,” the co-writers acknowledged in a joint announcement. “Alongside the best way, we’ve gotten to work with a whole lot of our favourite artists, and we’ll be asserting their roles on the album within the weeks forward. We are able to’t wait to share these songs with you on Oct. 18.”

The mission boasts some severe hip-hop credentials behind the scenes. Grammy Award-winning rapper Nas serves as government producer, bringing his New York Metropolis roots to the desk. In the meantime, Grammy-winning musician Mike Elizondo takes the helm as producer.

Whereas the complete forged stays underneath 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 received a Grammy in 2016 for greatest musical theater album. It turned the first-ever Broadway forged recording to be licensed Diamond by the Recording Business Affiliation of America.

The Hamilton Mixtape debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and Encanto‘s soundtrack, that includes the hit “We Don’t Speak About Bruno,” dominated the charts, making Miranda Billboard’s Prime Scorching 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 mission additionally provides to the various physique of labor of Eisa Davis, who’s an award-winning actor, author, and singer-songwriter identified for her work on stage and display.

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 sequence akin to Netflix’s She’s Gotta Have It and FX’s Justified: Metropolis Primeval, and she or he has appeared in quite a few theater productions and movies.

WARRIORS is out Oct. 18