It’s one of those moments that wraps this story around your heart and soul getting its audience invested in whatever is about to go down. One of my favorite moment is watching Vivo catching Andrés letter to Marta and crying as the plaza fountain looks like tears. With love in your heart, you can learn to move on and find new meaning no matter what. What Vivo ( Lin Manuel-Miranda) goes through is painful, but he learns that friends, music, and collaboration help you move forward. Vivo is literally a love letter to Cuba, it’s style and music legacy brought to life by Oscar nominated director Kirk DeMicco and his co-screenwriter Quiara Alegría Hudes (In The Heights) bring the lyrics of Lin Manuel-Miranda’s optimistic bright heart to the center of the film. But, Vivo soon finds himself on adventure to America to complete what Andrés was not physically able to do.

In all these years, Andrés and his pet capuchin monkey, Vivo play the plaza every day for tips and have become best buds. Decades laters, just as she is about to retire and mails a letter to Andrés inviting him for a final retirement performance. In Havana, Cuba, Marta Sandoval ( Gloria Sandoval) and Andrés ( Juan de Marcos Gonzalez) are partners in love and music, until Marta receives an offer too good to be true taking her from their beloved Cuba to Florida.

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