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Nique Tan

Timothy — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:01:19 +0000

The multi-talented Nique.

Name: Nique Tan Li Keong
Date of Birth: 9th Oct 1979
Place of Birth: Singapore
Currently Situated in: Singapore
Relationship status: Married

Nique is a professional multi-award winning magician, specializing in presenting sleight of hand magic to his audiences. Many in the local magic scene consider Nique one of Singapore’s leading close up magicians.

At just a tender of age 18, Nique was the champion of IBM’s card magic competition. He then went on to compete and win numerous awards both internationally and locally. Nique also shares his knowledge with the magic community and is the author of many high quality books such as “Working the Crowd” & “TECHniques”.

Not known to many however, Nique ACTUALLY does kids magic and has a full scale professional kids party show to boot!

Despite his commitments in magic, Nique is also part of a popular band J3. J3was a finalist in Channel U’s Superband competition in 2006.

Now considered one of the leading close-up magician in Singapore, he has branched out into being a mentalist and presently can be seen at magic competitions as one of the judges giving feedback to aspiring new magicians!

“Journey into the Surreal”

We all know that magic is just an illusion. However, Nique Tan’s magic makes you think, even for just one moment – what if it was for real?

http://www.u-niquemagic.com/

Kiki Tay

Godwin Tan — Sun, 24 May 2009 06:03:15 +0000

Picture by Red Dot Magic

Name: Tay Jun Kiat Kiki
Date of Birth: 14th December
Place of Birth: Singapore
Currently Situated in: Singapore
Relationship status: ?????

At the age of only 27, Kiki Tay is already the director of 3 different companies and was nominated for the “Spirit of Entreprise” award back in 2007. He also writes, directs and produces numerous comedy productions and magic shows for corporate events and theatres. Kiki’s featured works includes “Just Kiki Kidding”, an annual theatrical production featuring extreme comedy and magic, as well as “Waah! Magic!”, a comedy magic show for the entire family.

He is a regular magic and special effects consultant for Mediacorp TV, as well as numerous major theatre productions. His theatrical and television credits are aplenty with Wildrice’s ” Oi! Sleeping Beauty” and Channel 8′s “Star Awards 2009″ to name a few. Zoe Tay, Gurmit Singh, Mark Lee and Felicia Chin are also some of the local celebrities that he has taught magic to.

He has been chosen to choreograph a 250-dancers magical mass-display item in the 1st Asian Youth Games Opening Ceremony in Singapore this year ( 2009), following a successful partnership with choreographer Dan Kwoh in the Singapore Youth Festival’s Opening mass-display item held in the Singapore Indoor Stadium back in 2008.

He is one of the busiest and highest sought after corporate magician/entertainer in Singapore, entertaining audiences at over 200 events a year. He has performed all over the world and in front of dignitaries such as the president of Singapore, prime minister and even the royal family of Brunei.

John Teo

Timothy — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:41:54 +0000

Picture Taken from Reddotmagic.com! YES!

Name: John Teo
Date of Birth: 21st November
Place of Birth: Singapore
Currently situated in: Singapore
Relationship status: Married with 2 children

Mr John Teo is currently the president of the IBM Singapore 115 and he has been a member of IBM since 1981. He was conferred the Order of Merlin having been in the organization for 25 consecutive years. That was in 2006 and John is still going strong!

Despite being a part-time magician, John is presently a free-lance trainer and consultant. He is also very active in the local magic scene. From holding the position of president in IBM Singapore to making public magic performances such as Magic Day, John has definitely applied the principles of magic to everything he does.

He creatively uses magic in his management training workshops to effectively bring out important learning points for his participants in a fun way. As much as he does all forms of magic from gospel magic to children’s parties, his favourite category of magic and probably his strongest would be mentalism.

He is frequently invited to judge international magic competitions held in Asia; John’s in-depth knowledge and performance of magic is well respected by magicians internationally.

John is also interested in the creation aspect of magic. He has also written articles on magic and competed in various competitions generating several original magic effects.. Many of them have been published in international magic periodicals such as The Linking Ring, Abracadabra, Magigram, Chicanery, etc.

As John said while we we talking to him, his ideas are sparked off from other ideas as he finds inspirations from pre-existing concepts to create a modified or even brand new ideas.

Jeremy Pei

Timothy — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:30:27 +0000

Jeremy Pei and his famous Linking Rings!

Name: Jeremy Pei Bing Xian
Date of Birth: 12th October 1984
Place of Birth: Singapore
Currently Situated in: Singapore, frequently touring the world and gaining new experiences.
Relationship status: Attached on Valentine’s day 2009

At the age of 24 Jeremy has won numerous international and local magic awards such as being the magician of the year for two consecutive years. He was also the secretary of the Singapore Association of Magicians and has been featured on various national television programs in Japan and Taiwan. He is also a consultant to many up and coming magicians and supervised television shows locally too.

He has a whole line of products released to the magicians community. The products include the Redefine Magic series of , Redefine Rings, Eternal Ropes, Powerful Rope Magic, Ultimate Fire Gimmick (UFG), and the latest, Ultimate fire magic DVD.

Jeremy is a highly versatile performer, being well versed not only in magic technicalities, but also juggling, miming dance and ventroliquism, and even fire breathing! This is evident in his fluid stage presence in which he never fails to dazzle his audiences and leave them wanting more!

Jeremy started magic when he was a mere 4 year old! Inspired by his father, who was also a magician. He started doing magic shows and gigs at a tender age of 12!! Jeremy is the First and Only Magician in Singapore’s history to win the Singapore Association of Magicians “Magician of the Year” Award for 3 consecutive years!

To everyone’s surprise, Jeremy is also the Country Manager for Fantasma Magic Toys USA. They are being sold at all Toys ‘R’ Us stores island-wide in Singapore.

(Note: We did an interview with him on Jan 2009. Check it out here!)

Huron Low

Godwin Tan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:41:25 +0000

Name: Huron Low

D.O.B: 12th March 1988

Sex: Male

Organizations /Groups: Virtuoso [vur-choo-oh-soh]

VIRTUOSO. He fuses his sleight of hand with his extreme hand dexterity in card flourishing to produce magic which moves with artistic motion. He is without a doubt proficient in his techniques. He shapes his magic based on utility moves and much creativity that is not bounded to the conventional routines. The presence and charisma he exudes constantly suckers you in to his magic. One of his notable ability is misdirection; this was witnessed during the sessions organized by Singapore Magic Circle ( SMC ) where he turns up to floor the hobbyists or professionals alike. His style of magic leaves a notable dent in your perception of what you think you know about magic.

Going beyond the local scene, Huron now has his own line of products notably, the T&R project which comprises of ” FOUR ” and ” FIRE IN THE HOLE ” . So far reviews by David Regal , Magic Cafe and even Genii has given the T&R project extremely good reviews. Most commonly quoted comments would be ” Unique, original, practical and FRESH ( that’s right with the caps) “.

Skill: 9/10
Versatility: 6/10
Presense: 8/10
Innovation: 8/10
Overall: 7.5/10 ( skilled artist )

DID YOU KNOW? Huron’s ten metre card boomerang video is so famous that a parody has even been made of it! Check it out here!