Lin-Manuel Miranda has gathered a top pick rundown of Latino artist for his charity benefit melody, “More Like Praying,” which he released on Thursday night.
A long list of stars is performing in this benefit track. The list of track includes Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Gloria Estefan, Ana Villafañe, Tommy Torres, PJ Sin Suela, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Gina Rodriguez, Anthony Ramos, Joell Ortiz, Ednita Nazario, Rita Moreno, John Leguizamo, Alex Lacamoire, Luis Fonsi, Fat Joe, Dessa, Pedro Capó, Camilla Cabello, Rubén Blades and Miranda himself.
“Almost Like Praying” samples “Maria” from West Side Story and lyrics of the song are the list of all the town in Puerto Rico. All the money generated from this song wold go to HispanicFederation.org in order to help the affectees of Hurricane Maria.
Lin-Manuel Miranda had not faced much trouble in taking all the fame names onboard. Many of the artist simply said yes to Lin-Manuel Call.
Miranda wrote in a tweet on Thursday
“Y’all, when I say all hands on deck for Puerto Rico I mean ALL HANDS ON DECK #AlmostLikePraying,”.
Here’s was @LuisFonsi‘s response to my asking him to be on this song via DM.
We’d never met. He hadn’t heard the song.#AlmostLikePraying ?? pic.twitter.com/h3nDKEQuf9— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) October 6, 2017
Puerto Rico people were devastated by the Hurricane Maria weeks back and all the fundraising by the joint star production is going to proceed to hispanicfedration.org to help the affectees.