My wife, Julie, and I spent yet another day at Epcot’s Food and Wine Festival. And, that means another Eat to the Beat concert at the American Garden Theater in front of the American Adventure.
Performing tonight was Jon Secada. We have seen Jon Secada perform at Epcot a number of times over the years and think he’s very, very good. In particular, my wife loves his songs and put this in our calendar as a concert that we couldn’t miss. Jon’s voice is still soulful and so strong and powerful.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Jon Secada, he is a Latin/R&B/pop singer who had a number of hit songs in the 90’s. I believe that he sang backup for Gloria Estefan who is credited with “discovering” Jon. Anyway, some of his hit songs are: Just Another Day, Do You Believe In Us, Angel, I’m Free and sang If I Never Knew You a duet with Shanice for the Disney movie Pocahontas.
Tip: for those of you who don’t recognize songs by their title (like me) you can go to either YouTube.com and find a video or a web site like Amazon.com and look up the greatest hits album. Amazon will allow you to play a few seconds of each song; just enough to help you recognize (or not) the song.
Jon changed only one song in each of the sets; so there was very little difference from all three sets. Jon does sing parts of some of his songs in Spanish, much to the delight of those Spanish speaking guests in the audience. I should mention that all of the three sets were packed!
Finally, as you look at the following pictures “yes” his backup singers are twin sisters.
The familiar Eat to the Beat concert series sign that’s on the stage.
Please leave me a comment and tell me if you were there what you thought of the concert or what your memories are of Jon or of previous concerts. I love to get comments.
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Well, that’s all for now. As my good friend says, “See ya real soon””¦.DizneyMike
Please, what the name of backing vocals of Jon in this show?
Is it me, or does the picture of the drummer look like theres a hidden mickey with the cymbal?
DizneyMike replies: Yup, sure does look like a hidden Mickey to me; good eye….Mike
I saw Jon Secada perform this year. I had no idea who he was, but he sang really good. Also when I went to one of the daytime American Idol Experience shows he was in the audience a couple of rows behind me. It was all very interesting.
We became fans of Jon Secada several years ago after we heard him do a truly amazing reading for the Candlelight Processional. His performances at Epcot are on our not to be missed list.
DizneyMike replies: MaryJean, I never got to hear him do a reading at the CP, however, I wish I had….Mike
Nooo!! Why?! I love Jon Secada! “Angel” and “If I never knew you” are two of my favorites songs…snif!!
Extra tip: He also is one of the judges in Latin American Idol.
DizneyMike replies: Marianela, Too bad you missed seeing him, he was great….Mike
We saw Jon perform at last year’s F&W festival and thought he was fab. I have great memories of standing outside the Italy pavillion securing a viewing spot for Illuminations and listening to ‘Just Another Day’ – my hubby has some rather embaressing video of me belting my lungs out as well – ha ha!
DizneyMike replies: Cara, I think that video of you is what they call a “magical moment”….Mike
I absolutely love Jon Secada. Now that I know he sings at Epcot for the F&W festival, I’ll make plans to vacation at this time next year. How do I get the schedule of performers?
DizneyMike replies: Becky, unfortunately the schedule isn’t released on any set date. The best thing is to keep checking AllEars.net. As the performers are announced they will be posted….Mike