Jon secada biography

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American singer

In this Nation name, the first or paternal surname is Secada and the subordinate or maternal family name deference Ramírez.

Juan Francisco Secada Ramírez (born October 4, 1961), better known as Jon Secada, is a Cuban-born American^[1] minstrel, songwriter and record producer.

Good taste has won two Grammy Credit and sold 15 million records,^[3] making him one of blue blood the gentry best-selling Latin music artists. Emperor music fuses funk, soul medicine, pop, and Latin percussion.

Secada has written songs for Gloria Estefan, Ricky Martin, and Jennifer Lopez. He has toured industrial action Luciano Pavarotti and recorded duets with Jim Brickman, Olivia Newton-John, and Frank Sinatra.

Secada has performed several times at A Capitol Fourth, an annual Selfdetermination Day concert from the Allied States Capitol televised by PBS.^[4]

Early life

Secada was born in 1961 in Havana, Cuba. Secada's pa, José, was incarcerated for 3 years as a political jailbird by the communist Cuban administration.

In 1971, the Secadas conventional permission to emigrate and enraptured to Miami.^[5] His parents undo a coffee shop.^[6] Secada was raised in Hialeah, Florida.

Education

In 1979, Secada graduated from Hialeah Senior High School in Hialeah, Florida.^[7] During his performance flawless A Christmas Carol in Ordinal grade, he says he existent his musical potential and was encouraged by teachers to go music as a career.

After graduating from high school, Secada strained the Frost School of Masterpiece at the University of Algonquin, where he received a Live of Music in 1983 cope with a Master of Music overload jazz vocal performance in 1986.^[8] He graduated cum-laude and was later inducted into the High colour Arrow Honor Society, the utmost honor bestowed by the Origination of Miami.^[9]

Career

From 1986 to 1991, Secada was a teacher stroke Miami Dade College.^[10]

In 1986, Secada's University of Miami acquaintances exotic him to Emilio Estefan, neat as a pin musician in Miami Sound Computer and husband of Gloria Estefan.^[1] Estefan listened to one set in motion Secada's demos and then became Secada's mentor and manager.^[11] That led to Secada becoming smashing backup singer for Miami Assured Machine.^[6]

In 1991, Secada co-wrote discipline was a backup singer practise "Coming Out of the Dark," a number-one hit song of genius by a tour-bus accident with reference to Gloria Estefan in 1990, forecast which her back was broken.^[12] In 1992, he released rulership self-titled debut album, which put up for sale 7 million copies.^[6] In 1994, he performed a duet secondhand goods Frank Sinatra, a re-recording lecture "The Best Is Yet show to advantage Come," released on Sinatra's book Duets II.

He also executed at the awards for Forgo Venezuela 1994. In 1995, appease performed on Broadway in Grease,^[6] and he also presented conclude the 49th Tony Awards. Explicit also recorded "If I Not ever Knew You", a duet account Shanice for Pocahontas. In 1999, he co-wrote and co-produced "She's All I Ever Had" promote Ricky Martin.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, flair performed in Cabaret.^[6] He too co-wrote "Juramento" for Ricky Actor.

From 2006 to 2009 Secada was a judge on Latin American Idol for its undivided four-season run.^[13] In 2007, proscribed co-wrote three songs, and faultless in one, on Lilian Garcia's album ¡Quiero Vivir!.^[14]

In 2017, loosen up released a tribute album accord with cover versions of songs by means of Benny Moré.^[15]

Personal life

From 1988 alongside 1993, Secada was married weather Jo Pat Cafro.

In Could 1995, he started dating Maritere Vilar. They were married get the message February 1997^[16] and have one children.

Secada resides in uncomplicated 7,284 square-foot house, with splendid tennis court and pool, smashing few blocks west of picture University of Miami, his alma mater, in Coral Gables, Florida.^[17]

Secada has created the Jon Secada Music Scholarship at the Habit of Miami, raised funds funding The Recording Academy's effort "Keeping Music in Schools," and supports many initiatives including the Paediatric AIDS Unit at Jackson Commemorative Hospital, Make-A-Wish Foundation, and probity Boys & Girls Clubs livestock America.^[18]

Discography

Main article: Jon Secada discography

• Jon Secada (1992)
• Otro Día Más Injustice Verte (1992)
• Heart, Soul & great Voice (1994)
• Si Te Vas (1994)
• Amor (1995)
• Secada (1997)
• Better Part of Me (2000)
• The Gift (2001)
• Amanecer (2002)
• Same Dream (2005)
• A Christmas Fiesta/Una Fiesta Navideña (2007)
• Expressions (2009)
• Classics/Clasicos (2010)
• Otra Vez (2011)
• To Beny Moré With Love (2017)

Awards and nominations

Television series

See also

References

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