Michael Sheahan

Michael Sheahan has been told on numerous occasions that someone needs to make a movie about his life, and as you read on you will see why.

Michael's very first book "Mr. Holidays Presents The Roof Top Hop" is a three time award winning book. It has been honored with two Moonbeam Children's Book Awards for Best "Holiday Book" and Children's Book with Music / Theatrical. The Moonbeam Children's Book Awards are designed to honor the best children's books, authors and illustrators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading.

It has also been honored with the prestigious Independent Book Publisher Award (IPPY AWARD) in the Holiday Book category at Book Expo America.

It is not often you can say that your child is reading a book written by a NYPD Detective,

but with Mr. Holidays Presents The Roof Top Hop that is exactly what they will be doing.

For millions of people around the world, the love of reading was born with a Christmas story. Who can forget the first time we read-or had read to us-Dickens' A Christmas Carol or 'Twas the Night Before Christmas or one of the other classic stories that bring the season magically alive? At the same time, who can forget the delight we feel while singing Christmas songs and watching Holiday galas featuring wondrous dances?

That's the all-in-one idea behind the ultimate new Christmas package, Mr. Holidays Presents The Roof Top Hop. Through the merry character of Mr. Holidays, Michael Sheahan tells children an instantly classic new Christmas story, performs the title song on a sing-along CD and has his friend, Broadway's own Michael Balderrama of the hit Broadway show, In the Heights, teaches kids the new roof-top-hop dance steps, ones step at a time.

Lavishly illustrated by Douglas Wright, Mr. Holidays Presents The Roof Top Hop storybook/CD/DVD package

Invites young readers to read, sing, and dance as they share a never-before-revealed secret about Santa. As Michael Sheahan proclaims, it's "hip-hop . . . be-bop . . . rock n' roll . . . that brings joy and happiness

to every soul."

Michael Sheahan, a highly decorated retired NYPD detective, is an accomplished singer, songwriter, and musician. His love of celebrating the Holidays with his wife Barbara and three boys inspired him to create the character Mr. Holidays, along with an entire series of characters, songs, books, and dances that cherish the values, warmth, and traditions creating new ways to celebrate the holidays for all the family to enjoy. Mr. Holidays Presents The Roof Top Hop is the result of the collaboration of Finest Music, Finest Media, and Fine St. Records. Creatively working together, they provide this first book, CD, and DVD released as a all-in-one product by Finest Books. The limited first edition book/CD/DVD package is a wonderful value.

Michael began his career in music and dance as a very young boy. He won worldwide international competitions playing the violin, accordion, tin whistle, flute, mandolin, banjo, guitar, bodhran and more. By the time Michael was nine years old he had performed in front of thousands of people in prestigious venues like Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and St. Patrick's Cathedral, NY. Michael spent several seasons singing professionally with the NY Metropolitan Opera performing in both the Children's Chorus and as a Soloist performing in Verdi's "Aida", and Wagner's "Lohengrin".

While attending the famed Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art, Michael and his sister started, The Sheahan School of Music And Dance. Michael taught seven days a week after school and on weekends. Teaching hundreds of students, some who have gone on to champion level competitions, and turned professional. While studying music in college Michael played 1st Violin with The New York Symphony Orchestra. While in his third year of college Michael was faced with a dilemma. The economy was very bad and the entertainment business did not continue to open its doors. Michael felt it was time for a new direction and became a New York City Police Officer. Michael excelled in the department and was highly decorated and promoted to detective within his first seven years. Michael worked in an undercover investigative capacity on some of the biggest cases in NYPD history and retired from the NYPD joint Federal (FBI) task Force. All the while Michael continued in the music entertainment industry performing and writing music for Off Broadway theatre. He has also written many songs recorded by artists in several different genre's including Folk, Celtic, Country, Classical/Pop Crossover, Pop and Rock. Michael also continues to record his own songs, and just launched his first music video on YouTube

Mr. Holidays Presents The Roof Top Hop featuring Award Winning Author and Singer-Songwriter Michael Sheahan.

Finest Music is Michael's earliest start up business in the entertainment industry. It currently holds offices in New York and Nashville and is one of the fastest growing independent entertainment companies. Michael represents publishing catalogues of some of the finest Grammy Award songwriters in the industry. Michael's reputation has been acknowledged for being able to recognize exceptional talent and he also continues to actively partake in the creation of content (songs, books, scripts, brands). Michael was music supervisor and sponsor to Marooned TV on CBS in Kentucky and Tennessee. He is a major sponsor to the Nashville Film Festival and a Songwriting Mentor for several years at New York's CMJ Music and Film Festival. Follow Singer-Songwriter Michael Sheahan on Facebook and @MichaelCSheahan on twitter.

Michael has expanded his entertainment companies opening Finest Worldwide Entertainment, Finest Book Publishing, Fine St. Records, Finest Media, Finest Rights Management, and Finest Fulfillment. Michael's latest creation is the animated character, "Mr. Holidays." The brand will launch an entire series of children's illustrated books accompanied by a sing along CD, and Dance instructional DVD. Log onto www.mrholidayssongs.com for updates on the Mr. Holidays series. Find Mr. Holidays Presents Facebook and @mrholidayssongs on Twitter.