Lin-Manuel Miranda, Carlos Vives, Sebastián Yatra, Mauro Castillo, and composer Germaine Franco discuss the creative challenges and thrills behind the music for the Disney hit ‘Encanto’
‘s music, which includes Miranda’s original songs and a score by Germaine Franco, has largely boggled critics, who have approached its resounding popularity like a riddle they’ve been asked to solve. While some have provided neat answers — Miranda’s unmatched showtune-writing skills, the power of Disney — none of the people who worked on the project can sum up 100 million streams and several barrier-breaking records quite as concisely.
The fact that Miranda isn’t Colombian chagrined some viewers, who saw his hiring as one of the ways in which Latin identities are often flattened and made interchangeable in entertainment. Miranda’s approach was to plan a two-week trip to the country, in which he visited regions such as Cartagena, Palenque, and Bogotá, among others, to come up with a musical language that balances specifics from Colombia with broader references from across the Spanish-speaking world.
Vives describes feeling pleasantly surprised at the range of rhythms packed into the celebratory song. “That immersion they had in Colombia, they really felt the music and traveled while listening to music — mine, everyone’s, from the oldest and the most classic,” he says over Zoom.
She adds that there were some elements she wanted to put in while she was composing, but ultimately couldn’t because of the constraints of the story. “There’s a rhythm called awhich is so amazing, but it was just too fast. They wound up putting in a little at the end when the family is having dinner, and you’ll hear a little bit when she’s on the chase. So, there’s times when I couldn’t do the pure folkloric kind of rhythm, but I take elements of it and put it in different cues.
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