Jon Secada Quotes

• 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.

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• With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

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• Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.

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• 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.

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• There’s something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I’m very concerned, very self-conscious about that.

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• There’s always something about the Tonight Show that makes me a little bit anxious, nervous, excited. But it’s good. It’s good. It’s been real good for me. It always has helped my career and Jay and all the people here have always been great.

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• 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.

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• Oh, yeah, I’ve always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder.

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• My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up.

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• My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that’s the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It’s helped me a lot with my career.

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• It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol’ Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I’m a big believer in education, period.

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• 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.

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• I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you’re right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.

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• I might be a Cuban American, but I’m also an Afro-Cuban American.

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• 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.

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• I have a bachelor’s and a master’s in jazz.

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• I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that’s really important.

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Jon Secada (26)

Birth:	4th October, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Singer

About

Jon Secada was born in Havana, Cuba. He is a Cuban-born American singer and songwriter. He has won three Grammy Awards and sold 20 million albums since his English-language debut album in 1992. His music fuses funk, soul, pop and Latin percussion. He earned a BA degree and an MA degree both from the University of Miami Florida. His albums list shown below: Jon Secada, Otro Día Más Sin Verte, Heart, Soul & a Voice, and Si Te Vas. His singles list shown below: "Just Another Day", "Angel", "Do You Believe in Us", "Sentir", and "If You Go".

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