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  • - What does sueñito mean?

  • - Sueñito?

  • It means "little dream."

  • - That's it? No story?

  • - All right, all right, everybody, sit down, sit down.

  • - Yeah! - It's a story of a block

  • that was disappearing.

  • Un barrio called Washington Heights.

  • The streets were made of music.

  • ♪ I am Usnavi, and you probably never heard my name

  • Reports of my fame are greatly exaggerated

  • - ♪ Morning, Usnavi

  • - ♪ Pan calienteHey!

  • Café con leche

  • - 'Round these blocks, you can't walk two steps

  • without bumping into someone's big...

  • - ♪ I'm making moves, I'm making deals

  • But guess what? ♪ What?

  • - ♪ You still ain't got no skills

  • [ laughter ]

  • I've been saving up

  • all my pennies in my piggy bank for this day.

  • - This is gonna be an emotional roller coaster.

  • The odds are against you.

  • - But there's a chance, right?

  • A dream isn't some sparkly diamond.

  • There's no shortcuts.

  • Sometimes it's rough. - ♪ In the Heights

  • - ♪ Yeah, I'm a streetlight, choking on the heat

  • The world spins around while I'm frozen to my seat

  • - ♪ In the Heights ♪ - ♪ The people that I know

  • - They're talking about kicking out all the dreamers.

  • - ♪ But every day is different

  • - Time to make some noise. - [ cheering ]

  • - ♪ 'Cause my parents came with nothing

  • - We had to assert our dignity in small ways.

  • - ♪ In the Heights

  • - Shh. Just listen.

  • - Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.

  • - Ignore anyone who doubts you.

  • - ♪ In the Heights, I hang my flag up on display

  • - ♪ We came to work and to live and we got a lot in common

  • - ♪ It reminds me that I came from miles away

  • ♪ D.R., P.R., we are not stopping

  • - ♪ Every day, paciencia y fe

  • - ♪ Until the day we go from poverty to stock options

  • - ♪ Today's all we got, so we cannot stop

  • This is our block

  • In the Heights

- What does sueñito mean?

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