Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis on how they got Lauryn Hill for their 'Warriors' concept album: 'A lot of prayer'
has lived many a life, most famously and indelibly through the 1979 cult film directed by Walter Hill. Now, Tony- and Grammy-winnerand Pulitzer Prize-finalist Eisa Davis have left their own mark on Yurick's work with a concept album. With a gender-bending twist., a 26-song project , follows a fictitious New York City gang from Coney Island to the Bronx and back when they are framed for the murder of a respected gang leader, Cyrus.
"Every week I would text and she would go, 'She wants to do it, and we are in Brazil. She wants to do it, and we are in Spain,'" Miranda continues. "Until we were getting close to having to turn in the album and right on time — because God's always on time — we got a Dropbox. We got a Dropbox with vocals, and she had gotten her own background vocalists and had fully Lauryfied the tune.
"Yeah, I just have to say, I mean, there was a lot of prayer involved, a lot of prayer,' Davis adds. "There were a lot of texts and a lot of prayer because really, I mean, it's just an unbelievable thing that she did this period."According to Davis, Hill, an actress in her own right, understood the song "right away" and how to play the part of the gang leader.
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