When was criss angel born

His heroes are Harry Houdini and his father, John. Only magician to have won the Merlin Magician of the Year award twice in and Currently performing his live show "Believe" in Las Vegas.

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The demonstrations used in the show were developed in Angel's illusion laboratory in Las Vegas, located in a 60, square foot warehouse. His international touring with the show marked the first time that Angel had traveled with his show in about six years. The premiere show of the performance occurred at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut during November The stage show celebrated its fifth anniversary of appearing on stage in October The first season included 11 one-hour episodes, including different illusions.

When asked about the three years between the last episode of Mindfreak and his return to television, Angel stated that, "I didn't take long at all to go back to television. It was my choice to work on the live Cirque show and to get that where I wanted it to be.

In , Angel married his longtime girlfriend JoAnn Winkhart. The couple filed for divorce four years later. Although Angel was seen with his wife in the buried alive illusion season 1, episode 6, and the body suspension illusion season 1, episode 5, , she was not credited as his wife; rather, she was listed as "Criss's Girl". The relationship ended in February They broke up shortly after.

Since , Criss has been dating Australian singer Shaunyl Benson. The couple have two sons together, Johnny Christopher, born , and Xristos Yanni, born January 22, In , the Las Vegas Sun critic John Katsilometes, after being unimpressed by the initial show, said Believe had improved by reducing the narrative elements and focusing on the magic.

In , the Toronto Star wrote: "The show is easily the most exciting thing now on stage in Vegas! The show currently has a year performance contract that runs through , and was the best selling magic show in Las Vegas as of Angel has made numerous special television guest appearances on WWE Raw, including acting as guest star on March 8, He also appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, including the premiere episode of its 24th season.

During a episode of the show, he successfully guessed the number between 1 and he asked Winfrey to think of without telling him. In , Angel partnered with IdeaVillage to release the Criss Angel Magic Collection, which contained six Mindfreak Magic Tricks instructions, tricks, and a magic kit for children.

Angel is the holder of several world records, including the longest time submerged under water and the fastest time to escape from a straitjacket at two minutes and 30 seconds, the longest body suspension at five hours 42 minutes, and the fastest time to perform the "Metamorphosis" illusion at less than one second. He is also the holder of the Guinness world record for "The most people to disappear in an illusion", for making people disappear on May 26, during a performance of Believe at the Luxor.

As of , Big Bear Choppers had produced seven custom-made motorcycles for Angel, who featured the motorcycle designers on his show Criss Angel Mindfreak. He was also awarded the foundation's Chris Greicius Celebrity Award in Angel has been on prime time television for more hours than any other magician in history, between his television series and various specials on cable and network television.

He also holds multiple world records made during his magic performances, and was named Magician of the Decade in and Magician of the Century in by the International Magicians Society. In addition to his career as an illusionist, Angel was the lead singer for his industrial band Angeldust, which released five albums between and He also authored the book Mindfreak: Secret Revelations. In April , Angel ended a performance of Believe by "hurling obscene insults" at blogger Perez Hilton, an audience member.

Hilton reportedly had texted to his fans during the performance that the show was "unbelievably BAD" and that he'd "rather be getting a root canal", and word had gotten back to Angel by the end of the performance. Cirque du Soleil later apologized to Hilton for Angel's remarks. In July , Angel escaped from a beachside hotel before its demolition in front of a crowd of about 50, people, an illusion that also aired on the television program.

After the illusion, Angel showed the audience step by step how he achieved the escape. He first picked open a set of handcuffs that had him shackled to a balcony railing. He then smashed the window of the room in order to enter the hotel, and picked padlocks on both the room's internal door and the door to the stairwell.

The escape was initially supposed to occur via a ladder that dangled above the hotel's roof 30 seconds before collapse, after picking through five locks on the roof's door. Instead, Angel emerged from the rubble after the collapse, claiming that the initial plan was always to escape via the helicopter.

The total time allotted for the entire illusion was four minutes, with dynamite located on the first, second, and fourth floors of the building. It became the bestselling live magic show in the world.

The name of the show was taken from Harry Houdini, for the mythology of Houdini choosing the word "believe" as the codeword for communicating with Houdini after his death. After several delays, the show was set for a gala opening on October 31, , with preview shows in late September on the 82nd anniversary of Harry Houdini's death. The initial preview received mixed reactions and reviews.

They also opined that neither Angel nor Cirque du Soleil were able to perform to their capabilities during these initial performances. On the positive side, the Las Vegas Sun later quoted Star Pulse, stating, "He has created a live show that is everything a perfect magic performance should be — and then some. It's not just remarkable magic — it's transcendent art that won't just blow your mind; it will quite possibly change your life.

Starting in October , he appeared as a judge on Phenomenon with Uri Geller. In a CNN interview about the show, he told Larry King "no one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead. And that was what I said I was going to do with Phenomenon. If somebody goes on that show and claims to have supernatural psychic ability, I'm going to bust [him] live and on television.

On the October 31, episode of the reality show Phenomenon, paranormalist Jim Callahan performed a summoning, purportedly of author Raymond Hill, to help discover the contents of a locked box. Although fellow judge Uri Geller praised the performance, Angel called it "comical" and subsequently challenged both Callahan and Geller to guess the contents of two envelopes he pulled out of his pocket, offering a million dollars of his own money to whoever could do so.

This led to an argument between Callahan and Angel, during which Callahan walked toward Angel and called him an "ideological bigot", with the two pulled apart as the show promptly went to a commercial break. Angel has since revealed the contents of one envelope and at the unveiling he challenged Geller one more time. Geller responded, "Although we were born one day apart - I was born on the 20th of December and you on the 19th - a lot of years between us - 40 years, you were one year old when I came out with my spoon bending The envelope contained an index card with the numbers "" printed on it for September 11, The show became an immediate hit and gained him international stardom.

The show aired five seasons and ended in Along with a magician, Criss is also a popular singer and has performed with the heavy metal band Angel and collaborated with industrial rock musician Klay Scott for Angeldust.

He earned most of his income throughout his magic career. Criss Angel married his long-time girlfriend JoAnn Winkhart in Their marriage life was not successful and therefore they divorced after four years of marriage in After the divorce, Criss dated Holly Madison.

However, they also broke up in February After that, on September 7, , Criss proposed Sandra Gonzalez. They even got engaged. However, they also broke up soon. At present, Criss is married to Shaunyl Benson.