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Lin-Manuel Miranda Performs The Hamilton Mixtape at the White House Poetry Jam [video 4 minutes 27 seconds]

Writer and star of the Broadway musical In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda performs"The Hamilton Mixtape" at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on May 12, 2009. Accompanied by Alex Lacamoire. (public domain)

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