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Jon Secada

"I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American."

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"I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American."

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Jon Secada
"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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Jon Secada
"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."

Music

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Jon Secada
"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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Jon Secada
"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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Jon Secada
"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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Jon Secada
"I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages."

Community

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

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Jon Secada
"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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Jon Secada
"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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"For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere."

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Aberjhani

"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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Aberjhani

"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."

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Aberjhani

"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."

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Aberjhani

"We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him."

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Aberjhani

"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."

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Aberjhani

"I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen."

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Aberjhani

"So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are."

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Aberjhani

"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."

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Aberjhani

"Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated."

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Aberjhani

"Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer."

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