Love Quote by Jon Secada

Secada isn’t just name-dropping Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire; he’s pinning his own work to a lineage with real cultural weight. Those are shorthand for a certain kind of musical authority: groove that’s disciplined, romance that’s adult, politics that can sneak into the dancefloor. By invoking them, he frames his “record” as something richer than a genre exercise or a nostalgia play. It’s a claim that his songwriting sits in the same conversation as classic soul and funk craftsmanship.

The phrasing matters. “A lot of influences that I’d love to cover” reads like an artist negotiating permission with his audience. Covers can be cynical, but he’s presenting them as homage and as education: a live show as a curated listening guide. That’s also a savvy career move in a streaming era where catalogs compete with algorithms. A well-chosen cover becomes a bridge, pulling in listeners who might arrive for the familiar chorus and stay for the original material.

There’s subtext about performance, too. “Maybe I’ll do some covers” is a soft pitch, not a promise, suggesting he’s testing how much reverence and risk his audience wants. Live, the cover isn’t just tribute; it’s proof. If you want to align yourself with Gaye’s intimacy or EWF’s precision, you have to demonstrate you can carry that emotional temperature and that rhythmic complexity on stage, not just gesture at it in production.