Lin-Manuel Miranda (5,452 views)

[Tetra]

Lin-Manuel Miranda (16 January 1980 - Present)
Voice Type: Tenor but man he misses the days where he was a First Soprano in Hunter Elementary School Chorus
Vocal Range: G2 - D5

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{Album Ranges}In The Heights (2008): A2 - B♭4
21 Chump Street (2014): A2 - C♯4
Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2015): A2 - B♭4
Moana - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack/Deluxe Edition (2016): G♯2 - A4 - B4
Marry Poppins Returns - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2018): G2 - B♭4
Vivo - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2021): C3 - B4

Significant High Notes:

D5 ("The Greatest Show")
B4 ("Running Out Of Time", "Where You Are" demo)
B♭4 ("96,000", "Cabinet Battle #1", "Introducing Mary Poppins", "Non-Stop", "One Of a Kind", "Tough Crowd", "Trip a Little Light Fantastic")
A4 ("Cabinet Battle #1", "Cheering For Me Now", "Finale", "Farmer Refuted", "Grand Finale", "Helpless" first draft, "Hundreds of Stories", "Hurricane", "In The Heights", "Keep the Beat", "Love's Gonna Pick You Up", "Meet Me Inside", "My Shot", "One Of a Kind", "Shiny" demo, "Ten Duel Commandments", "You're Welcome" demo)
G♯4 ("96,000", "Finale", "Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say)", "My Shot" first draft, "The Story Of Tonight - Reprise", "Take A Break", "(Underneath the) Lovely London Sky", "We Don't Talk About Bruno", "Where You Are" demo, "The World Was Wide Enough")
G4 ("Alexander Hamilton", "Take A Break", "Farmer Refuted", "Hundreds of Stories", "In The Heights", "It Won't Be Long Now", "Keep the Beat", "Love's Gonna Pick You Up", "Mambo Cabana", "My Shot", "Non-Stop", "One Last Time", "One More Song", "One Of a Kind", "Right Hand Man", "Running Out Of Time", "Shiny" demo, "Trip a Little Light Fantastic", "Unstoppable" outtake, "Warrior Face" outtake, "We Don't Talk About Bruno")
F♯4 ("96,000", "The Adams Administration", "Alexander Hamilton", "Cabinet Battle #1", "Champagne", "Cheering For Me Now", "Dear Theodosia", "Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say)", "Grand Finale", "Helpless", "It Won't Be Long Now", "Non-Stop", "Say No to This", "The Story Of Tonight", "Trip a Little Light Fantastic", "We Know", "We Know The Way", "Where You Are" demo, "The World Was Wide Enough", "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)")
F4 ("30/90", "Aaron Burr, Sir", "Cabinet Battle #1", "Cheering For Me Now", "A Cover Is Not the Book", "The Election Of 1800", "Farmer Refuted", "Found/Tonight", "Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say)", "Hundreds of Stories", "Hurricane", "It's Quiet Uptown", "Meet Me Inside", "My Shot", "Non-Stop", "One Last Time", "One Of a Kind", "The Story Of Tonight", "Turning Turtle", "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)")
E4 ("30/90", "96,000", "Dear Theodosia", "Finale", "Hundreds of Stories", "In The Heights", "It Won't Be Long Now", "Keep the Beat", "Mambo Cabana", "Non-Stop", "One More Song", "One Of a Kind", "The Room Where It Happens", "Say No to This", "Stay Alive", "Stay Alive - Reprise", "Take A Break", "The Story Of Tonight - Reprise", "Ten Duel Commandments", "(Underneath the) Lovely London Sky (Reprise)", "Warrior Face" outtake, "We Know The Way", "Where You Are" demo, "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)", "You're Welcome - Jordan Fisher/Lin-Manuel Miranda Version")

Significant Low Notes:


D3 ("Alabanza", "Alexander Hamilton", "Champagne", "The Election Of 1800", "Finale", "Found/Tonight", "In The Heights", "It's Quiet Uptown", "One More Song", "That Would Be Enough", "Trip a Little Light Fantastic", "(Underneath the) Lovely London Sky", "Unstoppable" outtake)
C♯3 ("Aaron Burr, Sir", "Epilogue", "It Won't Be Long Now", "Non-Stop", "One More Song", "Take A Break", "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)")
C3 ("Best of Wives and Best of Women", "A Cover Is Not the Book" ,"Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say)", "Hurricane", "In The Heights", "It's Quiet Uptown", "It Won't Be Long Now", "Keep the Beat", "Right Hand Man", "The Room Where It Happens", "Say No to This", "Take A Break", "(Underneath the) Lovely London Sky", "(Underneath the) Lovely London Sky (Reprise)")
B2 ("Aaron Burr, Sir", "Alexander Hamilton" live The White House 2016, "The Greatest Show", "Helpless", "It's Quiet Uptown", "Trip a Little Light Fantastic", "Warrior Face" outtake, "What'd I Miss", "Your Obedient Servant")
B♭2 ("Blow Us All Away", "Epilogue", "Found/Tonight", "Non-Stop", "Stay Alive")
A2 ("Cabinet Battle #1", "Champagne", "Hurricane", "One Last Time", "What The Heck I Gotta Do", "You're Welcome" demo)
G♯2 ("My Shot" first draft, "Where You Are" demo)
G2 ("(Underneath the) Lovely London Sky (Reprise)")

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{Questionable Notes}
A5 ("One Of a Kind"^[1])
G5 ("Lin Manuel Miranda: WIRED Autocomplete Interview"^[5], "Warrior Face" outtake^[1])
F♯5 ("A Cover Is Not the Book"[3], "One Of a Kind"^[5], "Where You Are" demo^[1])
C♯5 ("Warrior Face" outtake^[1])
C5 ("In The Heights"^[3], "The World Was Wide Enough"^[3])
A4 ("96,000"^[3])
F♯4 ("Alabanza"^[2])

A2 ("One School"^[3])
F2 ("My Shot" first draft^[4])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.

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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are pretty hashtag epic (for the singers vocal capabilities).

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What is Lin-Manuel Miranda's vocal range? Lin Manuel Miranda has a vocal range of a G2 - D5.
What voice type is Lin-Manuel Miranda? Lin Manuel Miranda is a clear example of a tenor.

[SailorBlue]

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Great job with the thread! Lin-Manuel Miranda is awesome! :)

[Macca]

i thought he was gonna have more range than that

[Henny Macc]

My impression of him is that he's not the best singer, but a really good rapper and obviously an amazing composer. Though admittedly I haven't heard a ton of his actual singing.


Here's a really awkward performance of "Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say)" from Jesus Christ Superstar with him as Jesus, from way back when he was in college. He was clearly trying his best, but man his voice was really not the most expressive or developed at the time, and his higher singing sounds uhhh rather strained to say the least. He doesn't even attempt to go for any of the fifth octave notes and just settles for hitting some shouty stuff in the G4 range instead. But still, somewhere around C3-G♯4 in this performance, with some possible A♯2s at a couple points. Also hearing some F♯4s and G4s that are probably worth listing at other points.

[Tetra]

Yeah, he's more of a rapper than a singer. His voice isn't the best, especially before 2016 in stuff like Hamilton. His impressive moments come from his rapping much more than his singing, although his voice had definitely improved in Mary Poppins Returns.

[jaredletoisbackagain]

Jesus Christ Superstar isn't the name of a song, unless it's just a coincidence and has nothing to do with the musical

[Henny Macc]

Yeah I didn't even realize the clip I linked was already listed because I tried searching for "Gethsemane" and didn't see anything. My only suggestion would be to list the G♯4 as a sung note, cause it's part of the melody that just about every singer that performs that song follows in that section.

[boog2021]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=20H6Yg6Ovhg

2:13 is where Lin Manuel Miranda starts singing, hits a G4 around 2:46, chorus also includes several E4s, pre-chorus has an F4, and also a G3 I think

[Henny Macc]

Just watched Vivo for the first time the other night, and damn - seems like his singing and range seems to have gotten quite a bit better in recent years! I was impressed by the number of easy/solid notes in the mid and even occasional upper fourth octave that I heard him hit in that role. Looks like you already notewatched most of it, but I found a couple songs that you missed that have some good notes.


I see you already have most of the notes from this one listed, but you missed a solid B4 here! Lots of E4s throughout as well if you wanna list those, though I don't hear where the D3 you have listed is.


E4s here and some G4s shortly after.

[kaji]

He's so incredible tense in that Shiny clip.

[Tetra]

shiny? more like strainy

[Henny Macc]

I'd say that "Running Out of Time" B4 is pretty lead vocal actually. There's another vocal going on at the same time as it, but it's not really buried behind it or anything.

[seahorse]

Jan 18, 2022 9:05:32 GMT jaredletoisbackagain said:

Jesus Christ Superstar isn't the name of a song, unless it's just a coincidence and has nothing to do with the musical

I think the last song in the JCS musical was originally called Jesus Christ Superstar? Murray Head's version (1969) came earlier than the musical. I might be wrong though.

[Tetra]

I actually just misread the post when I added it and thought the song was called Jesus Christ Superstar lol (fixed it a while ago though)

[rootyrootz]

Nov 8, 2023 20:12:18 GMT Tetra said:

shiny? more like strainy

"Helpless"? More like helplessly trying to stay on pitch