Jon Secada: Don Johnson Owes Me Money! [VIDEO EXCLUSIVE]

Jon Secada, the Grammy award winning singer/songwriter, has a beef with Don Johnson. In the 80s, when Johnson was trying to launch a singing career, he hired Secada to coach him, but never paid the singer, according to his new memoir Secada: A New Day.

“We got the call by somebody that was working with Don Johnson,” Secada told uInterview exclusively. “He was doing a duet in Spanish. They needed someone to coach him though the song. He was doing the duet with a really well known Mexican singer. I got the job. I got the call. I did the job, and I helped him with the song. He liked me enough to help him with some of the other songs that he was doing. I was being paid hourly and for me back then, everything I made meant a lot. I was a struggling artist, a struggling musician, so I was out to make a living as best as I could. I started to log my hours in and when the job was finished by the end of the week the office turned in my invoice, and we waited and waited and waited and never got a check back. I think eventually we got in touch with his personal management, and they said they didn’t know about the fact I had worked those hours. They diluted the fact that I was a part of what had gone on. That stayed with me and years later I was able to coincidentally talk about it. It happened in the middle of pre-interview for The Jay Leno Show, the first time I was on Jay Leno. Something inside of me just popped. They asked me something about my career or what happened in the beginning of my career things that I wanted to talk about. I said well, you know, ‘Don Johnson owes me money,’ and they just jumped all over it and it became a story. But it’s a true story though, and he still owes me money!”

Article by Erik Meers

Erik Meers is the founder and editor of uInterview.com, uPolitics.com and uSports.org. He was previously managing editor of GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Interview and Paper magazines.