JON SECADA'S 30 EXITOS is a an excellent introduction to this multi-talented artist, and is a great representation of some of his more commercially popular well known material. If you don't have any music by him in your collection this would be a supreme place to start - equally appropriate for the long time listener or the first time folk hearing this artists material for the first time. Unfortunetly this collection probably gets passed by as there is no cover art for it (at the time of this review), and is located back several pages ghost-like in MR. SECADA'S catalogue. That's most hideous as this really is his best "Greatest Hits" package through his 90's period, and price wise (currently) it's a awesome deal. 30 EXITOS is an interesting set made up of two discs with the same tracks; the first disc. contains 15 tracks in Spanish and the second disc. contains the same 15 songs in English. I don't speak or understand Spanish, yet I throughly enjoy hearing this man's glorious voice doing what it was meant to do. I would have to say JON is one of my favorite male vocalists, and his warm, soulful, emotive pipes always amaze me. His singing always has a certain sensitivity to it, yet its distint maleness and virility combined with the former make it a circular spiritual whole. He really does have one the most beautiful voices around and does a myriad of musical genres all too well; he's also easy on the eyes ladies, and for the gents too if you so inclined. Musically we have many influences here, but I especially like when he channels his natural Cuban/Latin enengy into his work. I would strongly recommend JON SECADA'S 30 EXITOS, and much of his back catalog as well - which can often be obtained rather cheaply right here on Amazon.
