Top 8 most famous magicians in the world

Real name: Steve Frayne
Date of birth: 17/2/1982
Nationality: English
Operation time: 2002 to present

Dynamo is one of the youngest and most talented magicians in the world today, he is known for his magic repertoire of mysterious colors and unbelievable magic. To this day, his performances still make the whole world go crazy and even science has no solution. People still believe that what Dynamo does is magic and not just a show with some ordinary tricks.

Dynamo has a strong passion for magic from a very young age, the young man learned the craft from his grandfather and self-discovered to become the talent he is today. Dynamo once surprised the whole city of London by walking on water. Dynamo also has a popular TV show that attracts huge numbers of viewers called “Dynamo Show: Magician Impossible”. In this show, he performed many impressive performances such as turning paper into money, removing glasses in pictures, pulling necklaces through his neck and most especially turning snow into diamonds,…

Real name: William Lance Burton
Date of birth: 10/3/1960
Nationality: Mỹ
Operation time:1979 to 2010

Lance Burton is considered a magic legend in the world. His shows at his private theater are always crowded with huge revenue. During his active time, his career developed rapidly, he often appeared on television programs and had a great influence on the contemporary magician world.

In 1982 he won the FISM award and became the first American to receive this award. In August 8, he came up with the idea, wrote the script, and choreographed his own show at Hacienda Hotel and performed in the following years. In 1991 Lance Burton officially signed with Monte Carlo Resort in Las Vegas after 1994 years performing in Las Vegas and he earned about 13 USD. He also received countless other large and small awards during his years of dedication to the arts. Currently, Lance Burton has retired but he is still considered a legend of world magic and his influence on the young generation is huge.

Real name: David Seth Kotkin
Date of birth: 16/9/1956
Nationality: Hoa Ky
Operation time: 1974 to present

David Copperfield is known worldwide as a great magician who has a rich life based on his profession. He is the world’s most commercially successful magician, with about 40 million spectators buying tickets to his performances, earning him over $1 billion. In addition to performing arts, David Copperfield is also a director (he once opened a restaurant system called “Magic Underground”), a screenwriter, a writer.

Copperfield is known for his mysterious magic repertoire and always surprises the audience, so far many of his performances are still an unsolved mystery. He fell in love with magic at the age of 12 and became the youngest member of the American Society of Magicians.

Some of David Copperfield’s most impressive performances include: disappearing the American Statue of Liberty in 1983, sawing people, flying in mid-air, crawling through the Great Wall, disappearing a train with people in it, walking away. from Tennessee to Hawaii in seconds,…

Real name: Dan Sperry
Date of birth: 8/1985
Nationality: Mỹ
Operation time: 1995 to present

Dan Sperry fell in love with the path of a professional magician when he was just 10 years old, although he was still very young, he confidently presented his first show at a small outdoor party. At the age of 17, he was one of the youngest magicians to catch the eye at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, Sperry was also the youngest magician on “The World’s Greatest Magic Show”.

What makes Dan Sperry completely different from other magicians is his creepy performances, he is called by the profession as the “horror wizard”. His most impressive magic trick was piercing a thread through his neck.

Real name: Derren Brown
Date of birth: 27-2-1971
Nationality: English
Operation time: 1992 to present

Derren Brown is known to the world as “The Wizard” of the magician world, he has the ability to hypnotize, control the minds of others. Since he was in school, Derren was a shy kid, he said magic and hypnosis were the only things that brought him closer to people. In college, Derren began to be noticed for his strange hypnosis. After a few years of performing in bars, he was known by a producer and invited to collaborate on the show “Mind Control” which has been aired since 2000.

Behind his success, Derren Brown also suffered a lot of pressure from public opinion. Many people consider his performances to be scams, but Derren has to give up Christianity because of his special abilities. He also had a stressful time dealing with gender rumors, now Derren is living with a male designer named Marc.

Real name: Cyril Takayama
Date of birth: 27/11/1973
Nationality: Hoa Ky
Operation time: 1990 to present

Cyril Takayama is an American magician but has two Japanese bloodlines – Cannon. Due to several incidents in his youth, Cyril stayed in Japan and is actually most famous as a magician there. Cyril was expelled from school at the age of 15 and then dropped out at the age of 16, his parents were so disappointed about this that they decided to send him to Japan to continue his studies, however he ran away from school. family and decided to make a career as a busker. After many events he was finally known and within two months of being known Cyril had created his own show.

According to some of his shares, Cyril began to know and be passionate about magic from the age of 6, with his relentless efforts, he really made a deep impression in his life. In 1994, he received the highest award of the International Federation of Magic Societies. In 2002, he and his partner won the Golden Lion Award in Siegfried and the Royal’s World Magic Seminar in Las Vegas. In 2007 he won first prize in the Magic Woods The Magic Woods Awards with the title of Best Magician.

Real name: David Blaine White
Date of birth: 4/4/1973
Nationality: Hoa Ky
Operation time: 1997 to present

Favored and gifted with magic since the age of 4, from around the mid-90s of the twentieth century, David Blaine has impressed throughout the United States with strange performances with 1 – 0 – 2. 1997, he went to the office of ABC News – Television in Manhattan to perform many strange magic shows with a deck of cards, since then his name has really been noticed both at home and abroad. He often participates in the parties of the elite and many Hollywood stars. He is also the main star of the famous TV show Street Magic in the US.

In 2002, Blaine surprised the world by burying himself in an ice coffin for more than 61 hours. In the same year, he again caught everyone’s attention when he stood on a 24,38m pillar in the middle of Big Apple’s Bryant Park (New York City) for 35 hours in extremely harsh climate conditions, high winds can beat fall or cause him to catch a cold and die. In August 8, Blaine performed a performance of 2003 days and nights of fasting while locked in a clear glass box suspended at a height of 44m above Potters Fields Park. For 9 days, David did not eat or drink anything except 44 liters of water a day and he lost 4,5% of his weight compared to the original weight. He also broke the world record when he performed a 25-minute breath-holding magic trick in 17, all of which made many people joke that he was forgotten by the god of death, David Blaine is overshadowing the legend of magic. Once David Copperfield, he was also referred to by The New York Times as “modern Houdini”.

Real name: Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos
Date of birth: 19/12/1967
Nationality: Hoa Ky
Operation time: 1998 to present

If David Blaine is the main star of the show “Street Magic”, Criss Angel also has his own magic show named after him “Criss Angel Mindfreak”. Angel started his career with a performance at Madison Square Garden in 1998, shortly after that, the show bearing his name was born and operated until 2003 after a series of 600 performances at The World, an underground theater in Hanoi. Time Square. Angel used to bring unbelievable magic shows such as floating in the air between two buildings, walking on the wall or separating the couple’s body and head from their feet right at the park.

For his great contributions, he won the “Magician of the Year” award by the Academy of Magical Arts in 2005 and twice received the “IMS Magician” award in 2001, and 2004. In addition to being a magician, he is also an actor, Angel was in a band called AngelDust with his friend Klayton Scott.