Carson Mus 200X Blog

     The movie "In the Heights"(2021) is a musical and romance movie about the Dominican Republic community in the Washington Heights neighborhood in Manhattan, New York. The movie is an adaptation of the stage musical also called "In the Heights"(2005) written by Quiara Alegria Hudes and with the music written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. In the movie, Usnavi is shown as being tired of the same schedule every day, so he seeks out his dream. When he was a child, his dad sold the family business, and his dream has always been to buy that business back and run it. This means that when Usnavi's attorney friend tells him that his father's property is for sale, Usnavi decides that he will find the money to buy the business back and move to his homeland. By the end of the movie, Usnavi realizes that maybe going back to the Dominican isn't actually what he wants to do. Since it's a musical, music plays a huge role in the movie. Most important turning points or ev

    In early 2011, 2 Croatian friends named Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser decided to create a music group called 2Cellos. Luka and Stjepan both went to the Academy of Music in Zagreb, Croatia, and each at different schools in the UK. Their whole idea was to make covers of popular songs, but only using cellos. The debut album included a cover of "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson, which was a smash hit for them. This launched their career into the mainstream, where they released several albums which all did very well for them In2ition in 2013, Celloverse in 2015, Score in 2017, and Dedicated in 2021. All of these albums did amazing and were actually very creative in how they made the songs work with just 2 cellos. Sadly, the group broke up in 2022, so that Stjepan could focus on his solo career, and Luka could focus more on his wife and son. Even though "Smooth Criminal" was their biggest hit at the time, I think the song that 2Cellos is most known for is a cover o