'We had to have the audacity to write about ourselves with love.'
Rich Polk / Getty Images for IMDbis currently out in theaters now. The story follows a largely Dominican community in Washington Heights over the span of three days.when he was 19 in college, living at the Latino program house at Wesleyan University. Speaking to
, he said,"I think that was a big part of me being able to access more of myself in my writing," he explained."Everything I’d written prior to then kind of sounded like [composer] Jonathan Larson, kind of musical theater-ish, rock-ish stuff. But I didn’t bring any of my culture to it or any of my heritage to it.""This was in 1999 or 2000, at the time of the first Latin pop boom. Ricky Martin, 'Cup of Life.' Marc Anthony singing in English for the first time.
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