Top 10 Magicians in The World:
Humans have always been fascinated with the supernatural and illusions since the dawn of time! Only few have the capability to show some real magic that might give Goosebumps to the audience. These few choose to take up magic as their profession to make themselves known to every street person out there and most importantly to get filthy rich as well. Top Tens’ World have come up with the list of 10 most amazing magicians of all times who had and still have their career as magic and became attractively rich!
10. Dynamo
Well-known for his documentary show, Dynamo, it’s Steven Frayne who does not really work with stage props, assistants and other kitsch props. He is the opposite of slick illusion, amazing people by swallowing jewelry objects and then taking it out from his stomach again, walking on beaches and bench-pressing 155kg in gym is what are some of the things he had done.
9. Dante
The greatest magician of the Golden age of Magic, Harry August Jansen was known as Dante the magician. Performing around the world with his group of 25 to 40 people, Dante had his magical words as ‘Sim Sala Bim’ which became an illustrious magic voicing.
8. Harry Blackstone Sr.
Getting famous through performing at the United Sates Organizations in World War II, Harry Blackstone Sr. is the reason of many magical tricks to get popularity. Cutting a woman into half was one of those prevalent tricks, where he would tell his assistant to lay in a wooden box and would cut her in half, whereas later she would rise unharmed and happy. His son Harry Blackstone Jr. also became a magician after him but could not reach to the level of his father.
7. Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
Inspiration of another great magician Harry Houdini was the magician of the 19th Century who stands as our number seventh, Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin. The French magician had many magic tricks that gave birth to the modern age magic, one of which is ‘the second sight’. The magician would go to the audience where he would touch random items and details and his blind-folded assistant would tell what items he’d touched and all of it in great detail.
6. David Blaine
He popularised the trend of the ‘Street Magic Show’; David Blaine has been famous since 1990’s. Although he had his own stylish ways to show the tricks to the random people on streets but what made him even more famous through his endurance tricks, which include; being buried for a week, frozen in an ice block for 63 hours, standing on a 100ft pillar (without attaches) for 35 hours, survived in a glass box without any food and water for 44 hours and hung upside down for 60 hours.
5. Siegfried and Roy
Siegfried Fishbacher the German magician and Roy horn the outlandish animal trainer grouped together to make an astonishing magic partnership. From 1900 till 2003 they had a unique magic show at the Mirage in Las Vegas, with white tigers and lions. This show was considered as the most visited show of Vegas which made them famous enough. They ended in 2003, when Roy was bitten by his own tiger and lost much of his blood and later the group retired in 2010.
4. Criss Angel
Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos earned his name from his show Criss Angel: Mind freak, which got premiered in 2005 at the A&E network. The show had some of his mind blowing tricks that include; walking on the water, cutting him in half and walking between two buildings in front of the Vegas crowd. It completed six seasons in five years and finshed in 2010.
3. Penn and Teller
The famous pair of the late 80’s is of Penn Jilete and Raymond Teller. The duo was popular for their humorous magic tricks that made the audience laugh and get fascinated at the same time. Recently they started off with a television show in which they performed tricks and later told the secrets of it too, which made it even more interesting to watch.
2. Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini on the second was a famous magician of 1800’s and early 1900’s who was known as the escape artist to many. Harry would roam around Europe and ask different police forces to lock him up in a straitjacket and after they did it he would escape it in no time. He did the same thing while hanging at a skyscraper, in water and was also buried alive which he scarcely survived.
1. David Copperfield
The most entertaining and successful magician is David Copperfield. At the tender age of 19 he was heading a show in Hawaii, through which ABC approached him in 1977 through which he flourished his magic entertainment. He was able to make the Statue of Liberty disappear, floated over the Grand Canyon and walked the wall of China till the end. David was the only magician who showed his magic tricks while telling a storyline to keep the audience attached and interested.