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Criss Angel is a musician, illusionist, and
stunt performer, and the creator and director of the "Criss Angel
Mindfreak" television series on A&E Network. He has been doing his
Mindfreak performances since 2001; his television show debuted on July
20, 2005. He also did a television special in 2003 called Supernatural.
His brothers and mother are also regulars on the Mindfreak television
series.
Criss Angel was in an industrial band
called Angeldust, which he started with Klay Scott (now known as Klayton
of Celldweller) after Klayton's previous band Circle of Dust broke up.
Angeldust released a CD called Magical Conjurings from the World of
Illusion in 1998 and performed in Madison Square Garden. He has since
dropped the name Angeldust and released several more CDs as Criss Angel.
He won the Merlin Award from the
International Society of Magicians in 2001 and 2004; he is the only
two-time winner of that award.
Angel said on his television show that he
considers another well known magician, Lance Burton, to be a good
friend.
Among the stunts Angel has performed for
television audiences are being towed 80 feet into the air while
handcuffed inside a barrel filled with water, then releasing the barrel
after Angel had taken off the handcuffs and tied himself to a safety
rope; and laying on top of a bed of nails and having a Hummer drive on
top of him, levitating himself and strangers off the street, also being
hung from fish hooks into his back while being dangled from a
helicopter. People who are not professional magicians are widely
discouraged from performing these stunts.
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