Listening to a broad range of artists provided fuel for his creative drive,
and by the time Cirocco was finishing High School, he was playing guitar professionally with national groups.
Once off the road,
Cirocco’s concentration was original music. Soon he teamed up with producer
Jeff Glixman (Kansas, the Georgia Satellites, Black Sabbath and Yngwie Malmsteen). Through Glixman, and bassist, Jerry 'Wizard' Seay,
Cirocco began tour rehearsals as a 'fill-in' guitarist for the Funk – Rock – R&B band Mother’s Finest
("Love Changes" CBS / ATCO). Cirocco soon signed an artist/producer development
deal with Glixman's Axis Recording Studios to enhance his own studio skills.
Within three years, his demos attracted the interest of six
major record labels, when Orpheus / Hush Productions (Freddie Jackson, Mellissa Morgan, Najee) heard Cirocco’s
well-crafted songs, and invited him to New York. “I was on the next plane,”
he smiles. Eventually, Geffen Records was selected as Cirocco’s recording
home. But even though an entire album was completed, the project was never released,
as a result of major changes at Geffen’s fledging Black Music Division. Down,
but never out, Cirocco was asked to go to Los Angeles by Motown & MCA Records. “It
was time to move on and grow... so again, I was on the next plane.”
Cirocco soon found himself busy in the studio producing and
writing for The Boys (MCA), Johnny Gill (Motown), Shanice Wilson (MCA), The Good Girls (Motown), Howard Hewett (Elektra),
Georgio (RCA), Leon Sylvers (Motown), Smokey (Motown) ... etc., etc…the list goes on. Later that year, Cirocco signed to Motown Records as a Staff Producer and A&R Production Consultant.
Cirocco’s projects include collaborating with “The
King of Pop”, Michael Jackson, for the Sega Video Game “Sonic The Hedge Hog”; theme music for BET’s
“Comic View”; additional production & remix chores for Quincy Jones featuring Tamia; and also additional production
work for Alvin Speights and Dallas Austin for the Grammy winning release - Fanmail by TLC.
Some of Cirocco’s latest music concentrations have
been both creative and professional music business consulting for various music productions and special projects for Manuel Seal Jr., Alvin Speights,
Mac Ten Publishing, John Crossland, Rika Muranaka, Charlie Wilson, Oliver Stone Productions, Pilot Music/ESPN Sports Center,
PepsiCo, GM-Lincoln Mercury, Brad Buxer, WRM Inc., DreamCatchers Entertainment, Kass Publishing, Sigidi Abdallah, Jacopo TV
Productions, Allenhouse Films and many up-and-coming indie producers, artists, songwriters, and managers. Cirocco was equally
proud of his participation with the release: "Heaven" (by Ebony Croom & 2Mac) in which he produced and co-wrote
for the Special 9-1-1 / September 11 relief fund - sponsored by Kass, The United Way & New Life Outreach.
Currently, Cirocco is writing, producing, and mixing new material
for “Mr. Ball” featuring The Ying-Yang Twins, along with doing original music for the new Coolio movie “Tapped
Out” from Artisan Pictures Entertainment. And if that was not enough,
he’s also the author of “The Music Powers That Be…” a new music industry book that will truly
EMPOWER the next generation of artists & record producers to make better choices
for success by attaining the knowledge & real contacts they will need in order to win… and not get
cheated playing the music game! Cirocco says, “I think it’s the
best help available for new artists & producers with more talent than money!”
