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Sports publicist turned lyricist John Cirillo and his new music venture Back from the Dead Music LLC will present a special, two-night performance featuring Adam E and Mickey Rosen at Empire City Casino this Friday night, June 29th, and Saturday night, June 30th.

Both concerts will be in the casino’s Entertainment Lounge from 7:00 to 8:00 PM. This will be the first public performance by Adam and Mickey in tandem. Each are accomplished solo performers.

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It will include Cirillo’s salute to former Knicks star John Starks entitled Sparks are Flying, which debuted at the Starks Foundation Casino Night benefit last week in New York City. Cirillo was the director and vice president of communications for the Knicks from 1984 through 1997, when he and Starks established a strong bond that still stands today. Watch Sparks are Flying. - JohnnyCigarPRSports247

Sports publicist turned lyricist John Cirillo and his new music venture Back from the Dead Music LLC will present a special, two-night performance featuring Adam E and Mickey Rosen at Empire City Casino this Friday night, June 29th, and Saturday night, June 30th. Both concerts will be in the casino’s Entertainment Lounge from 7:00 to 8:00 PM. This will be the first public performance by Adam and Mickey in tandem. Each are accomplished solo performers.

Visit https://www.backfromthedeadmusic.com/ It will include Cirillo’s salute to former Knicks star John Starks entitled Sparks are Flying, which debuted at the Starks Foundation Casino Night benefit last week in New York City. Cirillo was the director and vice president of communications for the Knicks from 1984 through 1997, when he and Starks established a strong bond that still stands today. Watch Sparks are Flying: https://youtu.be/fEII90AaoVw.

Each artist will perform three of Cirillo’s rich, story-telling lyrics, as well as a series of their own original composition. Adam E will perform Hey Professor, Newport and The Wine Bar, while Rosen’s playlist includes The Troubadour, Sweet Honey and The Sojourn. It is fitting that the debut will take place at Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway, where Cirillo began his public relations career in 1981 under Tim Rooney. His public relations firm Cirillo World has handled public relations for the casino since its inception in 2006. The Brooklyn-born Cirillo is a longtime resident of Chappaqua, NY. - Sports Media Report

Emerging Rock Vocalists Adam E and Mickey Rosen to announce Winter/Spring Concert Dates
Duo Has Performed at at Empire City Casino & John Starks Foundation Benefit


New York—The vibrant, musical talents of Adam E and Mickey Rosen arrived on the concert scene with a flourish this summer. The pair has performed two nights at Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway as well as a spring benefit for the former Knicks star John Starks’ Foundation in New York City and a private showcase at the Lexington Square Café in Mt. Kisco.

Performing under the banner of his collaborator and lyricist John Cirillo’s newly-minted music venture https://www.backfromthedeadmusic.com/ Back from the Dead Music LLC, Rosen’s passionate, soulful voice and riveting guitar accompaniment have caught the attention of his growing legion of followers. Another accomplished Back from the Dead collaborator, Washington, DC-based Adam E., performed with Rosen on stage.

Winter/Spring performance dates will be announced in the coming weeks.

Adam E is a singer-songwriter with diverse and eclectic musical influences that span generations – from John Denver (he sang Leavin’ on a Jet Plane in his debut on a British television series as a teenager) to Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder (he performed with them on the Kennedy Center stage) to Michael Jackson and David Bowie. Those influences helped to build a unique style that makes its presence felt in every soulful performance today.


Adam E has put forth a lovely marriage of music and words in the form of Hey Professor (encompassing Cirillo’s 20-year journey in the Fordham classroom), The Wine Bar, Newport and his ode to the Knicks star John Starks, entitled Sparks are Flying.

Rosen’s melodic voice and instrumentals have inspired admirers in the Westchester, Latino and rock communities, while Cirillo’s sports media ties and community of Fordham University alumni and students, where he has served as an adjunct professor for two decades, have combined to build popularity.

Rosen is an accomplished musician dating back to a decade ago when he opened for the legendary Gregg Allmann, jammed with the icon B.B. King, and performed live a bevy of venues across the Northeast. That he was able to live that dream, though, is a miracle in itself. Adopted from the ravaged nation of El Salvador, infested by drugs and gangs, by a loving family in Briarcliff, New York, he wonders every day what his life might have been and how fortunate he was. New York, His parents infused the music of Eric Clapton, the Beatles and other rock artists, and a musician was born at a young age, yearning to learn the piano and taking guitar lessons. Mickey lives in Ossining, New York, is also a personal trainer, wine and spirits enthusiast, former competitive mixed martial artist and break dancer.

Rosen’s father Peter’s Eric Clapton CD collection mesmerized the youngster in his pre-teen years, and had an emphatic and immediate impact on his love for music. His parents’ love for the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine and Hard Days Night albums were next, and that enchantment led him to the Yardbirds, and many classic rock artists. Piano and guitar lessons followed, not to mention break-dancing a la Michael Jackson, to build his strong and deep style of today.

John Cirillo, who emerged from a self-described “musical cocoon” after three decades as a sports industry leader. The Brooklyn-born, longtime Westchester resident still operates the public relations firm Cirillo World along with his music venture.


Rosen has brought to life the soon-to-be-released album of Cirillo’s stories including his odes to the immigrants – El Sueno Americano and Vas a Estar Bien – Ode to El Salvador, the story of how the two musicians began their collaborative efforts, The Troubadour (Cirillo’s original lyric-writing which began in 1984 when he was public relations director for the New York Knicks, and wasn’t completed until this year, three decades), Sweet Honey, The Swallows Call, Summer of Sadness,The Silence is Defining, Cadillacs and Fireflies, Shades of Hallelujah, Clap of Thunder, Double Vision and Memories Are Everywhere.

Adam E has put forth a lovely marriage of music and words in the form of Hey Professor (encompassing Cirillo’s 20-year journey in the Fordham classroom), The Wine Bar, Newport and his ode to the Knicks star John Starks, entitled Sparks are Flying.

Says Cirillo: “Songs are simply stories; music makes them magic.”


Back From the Dead Music, LLC. is a full-service company with the primary goal of pushing forward, guiding and inspiring the careers of young musicians through branding, public relations, marketing, social media, and performance bookings. The musicians collaborate on music and vocal accompaniment for the vibrant, story-telling lyrics of founder and executive director John Cirillo, while at the same working on their own original music.

For bookings contact John Cirillo, 914-260-7436, johnnycigarpr@aol.com - Johnny