Name: Criss Angel Birthday: December 19, 1967 Original name: Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos (Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos) Birthplace: East Meadow, New York, U.S. (East Meadow suburb of New York, USA) Year of debut: 1997 Nationality: American of Greek descent

He is a magician among magicians, a musician, an escape technique expert and a stunt performer. The TV show "Criss Angel Mindfreak" he created premiered in July 2005. The three seasons of the show have achieved unprecedented success. Programs in the first two seasons include: walking on water, trapeze, magleving above the Luxor Hotel, performing an escape in front of an audience, cutting one's own body, and lying on the body with a steamroller on shards of glass. During the filming of the third season, Chris Angel was accidentally injured and stopped filming for three weeks. Chris Angel, the cult hero wants to transform into a mass media superstar. Angel is a rock star in the magic world. He always appears in a nostalgic dress, accompanied by beautiful girls and children, and performs unique tricks - he prefers pain and great danger. Angel's magic is always closely tied to profitability, reinvestment, and diversification. You expect to see Tommy Lee, but instead Donald Trump appears, just with better hair. Chris Angel is a great artist, not just in terms of magic itself. In "Mindfreak", he integrates his own magic and thoughts about life and the world into it, and he can become an out-and-out magic thinker. Every time he performed a large-scale magic trick, he would try to trace its history and its ins and outs, and then add things that his predecessors did not dare to form his own unique and breathtaking magic style. However, it is simply "a fantasy" for a magician to become a superstar, according to Richard Kaufman, editor of Genii, an industry trade magazine. In his opinion, only six magicians have done it, from Houdini to David Blaine, and "Angel will be next." Next spring, Angel may embark on a three-month Asian tour, with earnings expected to reach US$9 million. At the same time, magic, DVD discs, brand sponsorships, seminars, US tours, and Las Vegas casino performance plans are all in the preparation process. Angell earns $15 million a year, and his assistants dream of surpassing David Copperfield's $5 million annual income. "Television shows me a built-in marketing method. We can't create more art without reinvesting money," Angel said. More art means more money. Who is Chris Angel, after Cirque du Soleil and Celine Dion, who still has such great charm that a Las Vegas hotel is willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build a theater specifically for his performances? This person was once praised by the director of MTV as "a strong man who can control the new trend of magic in the future" - Criss Angel. He just won the double winner of the 22nd Louis Award and the 25th Telly Award last year. .

In 2001, Chris Angel's magic show at The World Underground Theater in New York not only aroused strong coverage in the New York Times, but also set off a strong hurricane in the magic world. It also subverted all the audience's understanding of magic. As you know, the round stage stands in the middle of the auditorium. There is no so-called backstage to hide the mechanism. The audience can watch the performance up close and from any angle. Not only the audience will pop up "How did he do it?" ", even colleagues can't help but ask "Why can he do it? ”, it performed more than 600 performances in just two years, and every venue was sold out. The New York Post even gave it a four-star rating immediately after its premiere. New York Magazine even ridiculed the leader of stage illusion magic. David Copperfield, David Blaine, the original master of street supernatural magic, and Harry Houdini, the master of escape magic, and other magic masters came to highly praise Chris Angel's performance, because his performance not only It covers the essence of the three, and its skill and creativity far exceed them.