Jon Secada quotes
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“A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.”
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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 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 might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.”
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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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“It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.”
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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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“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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“I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.”
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“I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.”
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“For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.”
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“And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.”
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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.”
-- Jon Secada
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