Jon Secada "Stop"

As Rob Thomas and Santana's "Smooth" dominated the radio well into Y2K, Jon Secada followed suit with his spicy uptempo "Stop". With an abundance of "Latin Explosion" artists like Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony and Christina Aguilera's all over the radio at the time, "Stop" got lost in the shuffle and the song barely registered on the Adult Contemporary Chart.

Jon Secada - "Do You Believe in Us?"

This song is in heavy rotation at your neighborhood Walgreens -- at the corner of happy & healthy.

Jon Secada - "Angel"

When listening to Chicago's B-96 in 1993, I remember the station airing a "Spanglish" version of Jon Secada's "Angel".  The song would start off in English, but would change to Spanish by the second verse.  Secada was once a backup vocalist in The Miami Sound Machine (of Gloria Estefan fame) and it was Estefan who helped launch Secada's career.

Jon Secada - "Mental Picture"

How many song titles can you think of that have the word mental in it?  Not many, right?  Jon Secada's "Mental Picture" developed into a Top 10 hit for Secada in 1994.

Jon Secada - "Too Late Too Soon"

Turn on the radio late on a Saturday night and you might hear a dance version of Adele's "Hello" playing on the Top 40 radio station.  Flip over to the Adult Contemporary station, and it will be playing the ballad in its original slow-tempo form.  As a way to get more airplay on multi formats, there are usually dance versions of ballads produced.  This also happened in 1997 with Jon Secada's "Too Late Too Soon".  A simple YouTube search will unearth a collection of upbeat versions of the song, but very few videos of the original ballad.

Jon Secada - "I'm Free"

Sometimes you refuse to give up and continue squeezing your tube of toothpaste determined to get that last bit of toothpaste out of the container.  Using vice grips and all the force in your fingers, that final trickle reluctantly comes out.  Similarly, Jon Secada's record people decided to pinch out one more single from Secada's debut album.  "I'm Free" was that song and somehow it was a hit.

Jon Secada - "Just Another Day"

#1. Jon Secada's name is pronounced "John Sic-kah-duh" (not "Sic-Kay-duh"...like those cicada bugs)

#2. Jon got his start singing with Gloria Estefan as part of the Miami Sound Machine.

#3. Adult Contemporary radio stations fell in love with Secada upon release of his first English-album in 1992

#4. "Just Another Day" was the first one of many Spanlish versions of songs radio stations played in which Jon sang in half-English and half-Spanish.