- Welcome back y'all to Premiere Week from New York City.
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Here.
(audience cheering)
- Today marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month
and we have two more Latin stars joining us to celebrate.
He is one of the biggest Hispanic musicians today.
Four of his albums have topped
the billboard Latin albums chart.
He's also worked with artists like Christina Aguilera,
Black Pink, and Cardi B.
His new album will be out this fall
and she, I love her, known as The Voice
Of New York on Power 105.1.
You can find her podcast, Angie Martinez
In Real Life on YouTube and wherever you get your podcast
give it up for Angie Martinez and Ozuna.
(upbeat funk music)
- [Ozuna] Oh!
- I was like, you know.
- [Angie] I'm trying to hide.
- Are you trying to get away from me?
But today marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month.
So what does this month mean to y'all?
- Means we get to celebrate.
- Yeah
- It means we get to show respect and, and
and honor people and, and talk about our history
and our culture and maybe have some good food
from what I hear today, especially when I do that later.
And you know, it's just a, it's
it's a moment to like, look at where we're from,
look at what we're proud of.
- I think the same.
- Yeah, you too?
- I think the same. Family time.
You need like time for you, like Hispanic is everything.
I think it's everything.
Good food, good mom.
And celebrate every day.
- Everyday is our day.
- Yeah, for sure
- Oh, I love you.
- Yeah, that sounds fun. That sounds awesome.
- It's type of party? Your type of party.
- I was like, well, that just sounded great.
So did you spend a lot of time
at your grandparents place in Puerto Rico?
- Yeah. Puerto Rico.
- So Lin, did you spend time
at your grandparents' place in Puerto Rico as well?
- Yes. I, I would spend every summer in La Gata, Puerto Rico
and it was, you know, it's, it's interesting.
Like it wasn't, I, it was not the tourist version.
Oh, well, there I am on the beach.
- [Angie] Aww, look at you.
- You can count my ribs.
(speaking in foreign language)
That's but yeah, it was not like a touristy experience.
My grandparents worked, my grandmother ran a travel agency.
My grandfather worked at a bank and I just ran around town.
I just ran around Pueblo and, and made movies
with my grandfather's, like, literally my grandfather
would borrow the cam quarter
from the surveillance for the bank that he worked at.
And there's me making a movie where I'm, I had no friends
and they're literally just doing
an imaginary fight with no one.
- You seem so cool.
I don't know why you didn't have friends.
(audience laughing)
- Yeah. It's, I dunno why no one wanted to be
in this movie with me, where I'm hitting myself with a mop.
- Or maybe you were just afraid
from childhood to ask any family to join.
- Yeah, exactly.
- They start yelling.
- So that's like stationary camera and I just
it was like a, you know, I just spent my time in
I had an amazing time at Puerto Rico.
Amazing summers there.
- [Angie] Ah, I love that.
- Beautiful. and Angie, you're third generation.
- I wish I had that
- Puerto Rican, Cuban.
I know, but you, you, I love your mix of your
Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican, so.
- [Angie] Yeah.
How, how did that shape your identity?
- A good mix right? That's a good mix.
- Yeah, hard mix.
- That's good eating.
- It turned out really well.
- Thank you.
And now I'm from New York also.
That's why I have in the New Yorican also.
But I go to Puerto Rico, like,
so I have a different experience than you.
I don't go there like, oh, this is where I grew up in this.
I go there, like this connection
and this yearning and this, like, I feel like I'm happy.
So happy to be home.
It's like, it's just a little, little touristy.
I am a little touristy. Cause I am from New York.
So unfortunately, but, but I love Puerto Rico.
- That's what I, that's what I live there
because I'm just connecting, like for everything I'm work
like around the world, but I'm coming back to Puerto Rico
and say, oh, actually like that.
- [Kelly] It's your roots.
- [Angie] Yeah.
- It's awesome.
- It really is a beautiful island, it really is.
- Yeah
- There's so much pride.
There's so much pride.
There's so much, just people take pride
in not just being Puerto Rican, but of the island
and how they take care of it.
And even, you know, we did a lot of work when
when the hurricanes came and it was a real understanding
of like, especially in the crew that I was with
and was working with, it's like, we're here to help
but this is not like a charity thing.
Like everybody was helping together.
Everybody had pride, like we're struggling, but we're in it.
We're getting it in, there was, it just,
I don't know, I love seeing that.
I love people seeing building up their own communities
and creating like makeshift schools and makeshift.
You remember when Maria first just happened and people were
- [Lin-Manuel] It was hands on deck, hands on deck
- Hands on, all hands on deck.
And there was pride, so much pride in that.
And it was really an amazing experience for me to be
on the island and have that experience with
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- people that were born and raised there.
And it just made me feel proud to have any, you know
to have that type of connection there.
- Yeah. How do you think it shaped you
like musically speaking?
- Like.
(speaking foreign language)
- [Kelly] I get a little bit. I get a little bit,
for everything, I got a little bit just a little bit.
- You understand the idea.
(speaking foreign language)
- Got everything. Got everything, all of it.
(speaking foreign language)
- That's what I was gonna say.
- Yeah.
(audience laughing)
- He made me to it. He beat me to it.
- People see the legend on the island.
- [Kelly] I, of course, yeah.
My, dad dance with me go see like, 90, 92, 91,
Like the start with dragon town.
So the culture is everything
in Puerto Rico for the music urban
and the arts to learn my know, like everything.
Everything is art in Puerto Rico.
Every family got a little bit like artists
a little bit like sport guys. It's everything.
- Music is everywhere
- Music is everything.
You only you got 3 million people in Puerto Rico.
That's incredible.
(audience applauding)
- [Angie] In the world.
- So wait, so tell us, tell us about your new song
that just dropped just yesterday right?
- Yes.
- [Kelly] What, what is it called? What is it? What is it?
- La Copa.
- [Kelly] Okay, La Copa.
- La Copa is, is one, a new song.
I have like a different like, like beats is something
like a rock, like a like old music.
It's it's so it's so different.
Like it's classic music, It's all different.
Like it's a, a band music.
I have a different, like I regular,
I don't know how to say in English
- [Lin-Manuel] Arrangement, yeah
- Yeah, it, it have like different thing in,
in the, in the song, so that's my new song.
La Copa.
I'm recording video in Spain.
So it's crazy.
- Wow, in Spain.
- [Kelly] That's so cool, I love Spain.
- Yeah I love it too.
- So Lin, we're coming up on the, the fifth anniversary
of hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico.
Tell us about your family's work
with the Hispanic Federation.
- Yeah. You know, I think
that what I realized our lane was gonna be as a family
was to really support artists
and artistic organizations on the island.
So, you know, that started with taking Hamilton there
and raised 15 million for artists and arts.
- Wow.
(audience applauding)
- And we continued that work.
And so we've, we've done that.
We, we partnered with Google Arts.
There's amazing artwork in the museums in Puerto Rico.
And Google Arts has partnered
with us to digitize all of that.
So people all over the world can see the amazing art
coming out of Puerto Rico.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, and, and continuing to just sort of
support artists that fund and, and, and since Maria and
and make sure that that they're not forgotten in,
in the recovery efforts.
- Absolutely. Well, to all of you
like what can we all still do?
There's still help needed there.
So what, what is something everybody could do?
- I think that island is gonna, you knows
been rebuilding is a, it's a long haul.
Supporting, go there go to Puerto Rico, spend money there.
- Invest, yeah, yeah, yeah, invest.
Let's go
- Everybody likes to just go after the show.
We're gonna, we're gonna go.
- Look under your chairs.
(audience applauding)
- So one thing central to every culture is food.
These guys have brought
if each brought actually one of their favorite dishes.
So Lin, we're gonna start with you.
So what did you bring?
- Well, I brought it three months early.
This is an early Christmas present.
- This is three month's old?
- No, no, no, but Coquito is a Christmas drink.
- [Ozuna] Yes, that's right.
- This is rum and coconut cream.
- Do I have to wait?
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- No, you don't have to wait.
Salud!
(audience applauding)
- Salud!
- Merry Christmas.
- This is in September.
- Oh, it's like an eggnog drink. Kind of oh, but ooh.
- [Lin-Manuel] But Ooh.
- Oh
- But, drink it too fast
and you'll be taking a nap you didn't expect to take.
So Ozuna, tell us about yours.
What's yours?
- I have tostones with mayo-ketchup because you need,
you need mayo-ketchup for the tostones
everybody in Puerto Rico, like, love eat tostones
with mayo-ketchup.
- And mayo-ketchup is what it sounds like.
- Mayo, mayo, ketchup.
- And ketchup.
- Ketchup.
- [Ozuna] Mayo-ketchup.
- Okay.
- So when you go to like a Puerto Rican restaurant
and they're like, oh, this is our special secret sauce.
- [Lin-Manuel] It's mayonnaise and ketchup.
- [Kelly] It's not secret, It's not secret.
- I love this. Okay. Wait, I'm trying this.
- Let's try it, let's try it.
- Okay, Okay.
- And these are the.
- Don't tell me the calories, Angie.
- Okay.
- Ooh. There's like a little spice maybe, or.
- You could put that sauce on anything by the way.
- It's got a little tang to it.
- Yeah.
They know I like spice.
Yep. That was really good. I know, yep.
I, you know what I should wash it down with?
(audience laughing and cheering)
- Okay Angie, what did you bring?
Is this an empanada?
- Yeah, I think these from my friend's restaurant.
Right? These are from Jimmy.
So Jimmy, you know Jimmy.
- Yeah
- Jimmy's has a legendary Jimmy's Bronx Cafe.
(audience laughing)
Wait, what I say? What I do?
Oh you know, yeah you guys know Jimmy, right?.
- There are billion Jimmy's in the world.
- No, stop it, no there's not. There's only one Jimmy's.
- Not in the Bronx.
- Thank you, there's only one, Jimmy's Bronx Cafe
is like legendary.
- Yeah that's legendary
- I thought it was just like guy
and I'm like just the one. You know, Bob, right?
Like, awesome.
- You guys know Jimmy's stop it.
(audience applause)
Anyway, he has have another restaurant now in the Bronx.
Con Sofrito. Have you been it's really good.
- [Lin-Manuel] It's great.
- Anyway, so these are from there.
These are, and I told you I got a little Cuban in me
so I grew up eating empanadas.
My grandmother made them every holiday, huh?
- Right? I Love my job.
Like I love it so much.
I'm just gonna try to make sure
- This is my favorite part of every episode of the show.
- [Kelly] My God.
- [Angie] This is delicious.
- [Kelly] So good.
- Fun for us, not as much fun for you, sorry guys.
Sorry about that.
- I wanna give a shout out, a quick shout out to our friends
at the Puerto Rican restaurant, Con Sofrito?
- Yeah.
- [Kelly] Cons Frito.
- Very good!
- Well, I try.
In the Bronx, they hooked us up all of, of us up
with yummy food, this is so delicious.
Thank you so much for doing so.
Lin, you're providing opportunity to future Hispanic artists
with the Miranda family fellowship.
So I want you, before you leave to tell us about that.
- Yeah, sure.
So one of the things that, you know, you
you realize when you have something that has
the success Hamilton had is, okay
how do I widen the doors so that more artists
more artists of color can have these opportunities.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
And so we've sort of very organically
by providing a scholarship at this school
and providing fellowship opportunity, developed this group
of folks called the Miranda Family Fellows
and they're artists of color.
And they have been making amazing stuff.
And we, you know, we help out with school.
We help out with internship opportunities.
We help them with paid internships
that they can have the same opportunities other folks have.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
(audience applauding)
- They're all just incredible young talent.
So it's been wonderful to support their work.
- That's really cool, man.
Opening the doors for other people.
- You're the best. You're the best.
- [Kelly] I know you're really like so genuinely cool.
- You're like so good.
- Angie, your podcast is called Angie Martinez In Real Life.
So how does it differ from your radio show?
What's different about it?
- The radio show's great.
It's every day it's about you know, it's music
it's projects that people have and supporting
it's very like pop culture and, and trending topics.
My podcast, it really gets into like, just those real life
moments where you need almost like you need somebody to talk
to type of situations.
- Yeah absolutely.
- [Angie] So those are the conversations that we're having
- I like that it goes deeper.
- Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
- [Kelly] That's important.
- You should come on.
- Yeah. I well fine.
- [Angie] I would love that.
- Now we're friends, so you have to invite me.
- You and I are friends, you know my friend, Kelly.
She's gonna be on my podcast.
- But I will still call you out.
That's the kind of friend I am.