Tracklist:1. Survive the Night (Feat. The Five Boroughs & DJ Lynne Pen)2. Roll Call (Starring the Warriors)3. Warriors' Cypher4. Make Way for Cyrus (Feat. The Gramercy Riffs)5. If You Can Count (Feat. Cyrus)6. Derailed7. Woodlawn Cemetery8. Leave the Bronx
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Tracklist:
1. Survive the Night (Feat. The Five Boroughs & DJ Lynne Pen)
2. Roll Call (Starring the Warriors)
3. Warriors’ Cypher
4. Make Way for Cyrus (Feat. The Gramercy Riffs)
5. If You Can Count (Feat. Cyrus)
6. Derailed
7. Woodlawn Cemetery
8. Leave the Bronx Alone (Feat. The Turnbull ACs)
9. A Track Fire & a Phone Call
10. Going Down (Feat. Luther & Cropsy of the Rogues)
11. Orphan Town (Feat. The Orphans & Mercy)
12. Call Me Mercy
13. Still Breathin’ (Feat. Masai)
14. Quiet Girls (Feat. The Hurricanes)
15. Outside Gray’s Papaya (Feat. The Baseball Furies)
16. Sick of Runnin’
17. The Park at Night
18. Luther Interlude
19. Cardigans
20. We Got You (Feat. The Bizzies)
21. A Light Or Somethin’
22. We Got You (Reprise)
23. Somewhere in the City
24. Reunion Square (Feat. New York’s Finest)
25. Same Train Home (DJ Lynn Penn)
26. Finale: Part 1 – The Wonder Wheel/Part 2 – The Coney Island Shore/Part 3 – When We All Come Home Alive
WARRIORS, the new project from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, is a concept album inspired by the 1979 Paramount Pictures cult film, The Warriors, based on the Sol Yurick novel of the same name. WARRIORS is executive produced by GRAMMY Award winning rapper & New York City native, Nas & produced by GRAMMY Award winning musician Mike Elizondo.
WARRIORS is an immersive listening experience that 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.
The star-studded cast of the WARRIORS features the likes of Busta Rhymes, Nas, RZA, Ghostface Killag, Camron and Shenseea amongst many more to be announced in the following weeks.
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis unveil the final group of voices for the star-studded cast of the concept album, WARRIORS including Ms. Lauryn Hill as Cyrus of Gramercy Riffs and the vocal cast of THE WARRIORS.
THE WARRIORS will feature Kenita Miller as Cochise, Sasha Hutchings as Cowgirl, Phillipa Soo as Fox, Aneesa Folds as Cleon, Amber Gray as Ajaz, Gizel Jimnez as Rembrandt, Jasmine Cephas Jones as Swan, and Julia Harriman as Mercy.
The newly announced voices join the already noteworthy cast including: THE COPS featuring James Remar as Barnes and David Patrick Kelly as Victor; THE HURRICANES featuring Billy Porter as Granger, Michaela Ja as Yaya, and Mykal Kilgore as lan; THE ORPHANS featuring Utkarsh Ambudkar as Sully and Casey Likes as Jesse; THE TURNBULL ACS featuring Marc Anthony as Tato, Luis Figueroa as Miguel, and Flaco Navaja as Jess;
THE ROGUES featuring Kim Dracula as Luther and Alex Bonniello as Cropsy; Shenseea as DJ Lynne Pen, and THE BIZZIES: featuring Stephen Sanchez as Cal, Joshua Henry as Wanya, Timothy Hughes as Lance, and Daniel Jikal as Joon.
Colman Domingo is the voice of the Masai of the Gramercy Riffs while the voices of the boroughs include: Busta Rhymes as Brooklyn; Ghostface Killah and RZA as Staten Island; Chris Rivers as The Bronx; Camron as Manhattan; and Nas as Queens.
ABOUT WARRIORS:
WARRIORS, the new project from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, is a concept album inspired by the 1979 Paramount Pictures cult film, The Warriors, based on the Sol Yurick novel of the same name. WARRIORS is executive produced by GRAMMY Award winning rapper & New York City native, Nas & produced by GRAMMY Award winning musician Mike Elizondo.
WARRIORS is an immersive listening experience that 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.
ABOUT LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA:
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA is a Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award-winning songwriter, actor, director and producer. He is the creator and original star of Broadways Tony Award-winning musicals, Hamilton and In the Heights. The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Hamilton won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and was the first-ever Broadway cast recording to be certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America. The Hamilton Mixtape, a concept album inspired by the shows score, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and received a 2017 MTV VMA Award for the video “Immigrants (We Get the Job Done).” Mirandas first musical, In the Heights, received the Tony Award for Best Score and took home a 2009 Grammy Award for its Original Broadway Cast Album. The soundtrack from the musicals film adaptation received a 2022 Grammy nomination. His additional Broadway credits include New York, New York (Additional Lyrics, Tony nomination for Best Musical), Freestyle Love Supreme (Co-Founder, Guest Star, Special Tony Award Recipient), Bring It On: The Musical (co-composer/co-lyricist, Tony nomination for Best Musical), and West Side Story (2009 revival, Spanish translations).
Miranda wrote eight original songs for Disneys Academy Award-winning animated feature, Encanto. The Encanto soundtrack spent nine nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with all eight of Mirandas songs from the film appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 in the same week. We Dont Talk About Bruno” became the first No. 1 song on Billboards Hot 100 to be released by Walt Disney Records. With five weeks at No. 1, Bruno now holds the record for most weeks at the top of the charts for any song from a Disney film (animated or live-action). Miranda received a 2022 Oscar nomination for Best Original Song for Dos Oruguitas. Encanto won three 2023 Grammys, including two for Miranda. He was named Billboards Top Hot 100 Songwriter of 2022. He contributed music and lyrics to Disneys Moana which earned him a 2017 Oscar nomination and a 2018 Grammy Award for the original song, How Far Ill Go. Miranda is penning the songs for the upcoming film, Mufasa: The Lion King, in theaters December 20, 2024. Charity singles include: Love Make The World Go Round with Jennifer Lopez, a tribute to the victims of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting; Found/Tonight with Ben Platt, and composers Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, to support March For Our Lives; and Almost Like Praying, benefiting the Hispanic Federations UNIDOS Disaster Relief and Recovery Program after Hurricane Maria. He lives with his family in New York City.
ABOUT EISA DAVIS:
EISA DAVIS is an award-winning performer, writer, musician and composer working on stage and screen. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play Bulrusher, and wrote and starred in the stage memoir Angelas Mixtape, named a best of the year by the New Yorker. Angelas Mixtape is now published with The History of Light (Barrymore nomination) in a volume from 53rd State Press / TCG. Of her thirteen full-length stage works, highlights include Ramp (Ruby Prize winner), The Essentialisnt (Creative Capital Award), and Mushroom (Barrymore nomination). Notable collaborations include Cirque du Soleils first ice show, Crystal, AFROFEMONONOMY, and the songs for the musical adaptation of Walter Mosleys Devil In A Blue Dress. Davis has released two albums of original music: Something Else, and Tinctures (with Daniel T. Denver), songs from which were featured on the Showtime series Soul Food.
Davis wrote for both seasons of Spike Lees Netflix series Shes Gotta Have It, and produced and wrote for the FX series Justified: City Primeval. As a theatre actor, she has earned an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, an AUDELCO, three Lucille Lortel nominations, and a Drama League nomination. She is known for her screen roles on Mare of Easttown, Kindred, The Wire, House of Cards, Pose, Ahsoka, The Looming Tower, Hart of Dixie, and as a member of the original Broadway cast of the Tony-winning Passing Strange. She will soon be seen in the films Relay and Ex-Husbands, and on the Netflix series The Madness.
Other awards include the USA Artist Fellowship, the prestigious Herb Alpert Award in Theatre, a playwright residency at New Dramatists, and a multiyear fellowship with Black poetry organization Cave Canem. An advocate and creator of hip hop theatre since its inception, Davis is a Bay Area native and lives in Brooklyn.
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