Jon Secada
Jon Secada
Jon Secadais a Cuban American singer and songwriter. Secada was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Hialeah, Florida. He has won two Grammy Awards and sold 20 million albums since his English-language debut album in 1992. His music fuses funk, soul, pop and Latin percussion. Secada also has worked as a songwriter for Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Mandy Moore and other performers...
NationalityCuban
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth4 October 1962
CountryCuba
giving rooms grows
For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.
important language grew
I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.
community singing done
I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.
opportunity college years
Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.
jazz masters bachelors
I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.
thinking lucky facts
I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.
wedding-day miami intense
It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.
song honesty writing
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.
afros might cuban
I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.
teacher cutting college
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
beautiful love-is california
If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It's beautiful. The weather is just gorgeous, I love being here, too.
education bigs periods
I'm a big believer in education, period.
wind fire records
This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.
albums records contracts
So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.