'Hamilton' star sings elementary school teacher's MLK tribute song with fellow alumni

Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the hit Broadway show “Hamilton,” got a group of his fellow Hunter College Elementary School alumni together in order to honor their former music teacher by singing her song about Martin Luther King, Jr.

Miranda recalled that the students at the school would sing the gospel-style “Martin Luther King” as part of a long tradition at the school but did not realize until after they got older and left the school that it was not a widely-known piece.

In fact, the whole thing had been written by music teacher Barbara Ames.

Miranda recalled during a video in the school’s auditorium that “it wasn’t until we got out in the real world that we realized no one else knew this amazing song.”

Miranda decided to do something special for Ames this year and gathered together 50 classmates, along with anyone who attended the school from 1988 to 2001, in order to record a rousing rendition of the song in time for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

“If you went to Hunter, you grew up singing this song,” Miranda says in the video. “It’s unfair that the rest of the world doesn’t know it.”

Check out the amazing video honoring a music teacher who clearly touched the lives of all these people when they were kids.

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