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From shy child to performer

room learning reading about magic and illusionism but I was shy so I had to put on makeups and costumes to go in front of the audience so I would put a Chinese costume to do a C...

Course: Remarkable lives and personal changeSection: Life as a quick-change artistSubtitles: en

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my youth in this

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room learning reading about magic and

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illusionism but I was shy so I had to

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put on makeups and costumes to go in

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front of the audience so I would put a

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Chinese costume to do a Chinese trick an

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Indian costume to do the Indian rope and

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so on and I liked it and in that moment

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I received a book froli ra froli the

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book about this incredible man who 100

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years ago was the master of quick

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changes and I dreamt and to become like

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him and what did your parents think of

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this career plan my father dreamt and

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hoped that I would become a priest but I

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became a magician that is not so so so

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different you know when I was 17 I said

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to the priest who was my magic teacher

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you know I think I don't have the

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vocation the religious vocation and he

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said well it's not important the

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important thing in life is that if you

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want to bring smile to the public follow

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this idea because it's going to be your

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life

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away and for all these years I'm living

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my life as an artist like a mission I

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don't drink

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