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Criss Angel (born Christopher Sarantakos in December 19, 1968, Long Island, New York) is a musician, illusionist, stunt performer, & a owner and director of the Criss Angel Mindfreak television series on A&E Network.
Musical career
Criss Angel was around an industrial band called Angeldust, which he began by owning Klay Scott (nowadays called Klayton of Celldweller) after Klayton's former band Circle of Dust broke up. Angeldust freed an album known as Magical Conjurings from either the World of Illusion in 1998 and performed in Madison Square Garden. He hwhen since dropped a title Angeldust & discharged many supplementary Videos as Criss Angel.
Career as an illusionist
Angel has been doing his Mindfreak performances since 2001; his televisiin show debuted on July 20, 2005. He too did the television favorite within 2003 called Supernatural. His brothers & mother come likewise regulars on the Mindfreak television series.
Among the stunts Angel has performed for televisiin audiences come existence towed Fourscore feet into the air piece handcuffed in the barrel filled by owning water supply, so releasing a barrel when Angel experienced taken off the manacle & attached himself to a safety rope; & laying on top of a bed of nails & with a Hummer drive on top of him, levitating himself & alien off the street, too existence hung from either either fish hooks into his back when existence dangled from a whirlybird. Humans world health organization come non agent magicians are strongly discouraged from either performing these stunts.
Angel won a Merlin Award from either a International Society of Magicians in 2001, 2004 and now within 2005; he is the only triad-instance winner of that award.
Trivia
Angel said in his tv program that he considers a second easily-known magician, Lance Burton, to be a good friend.
Angel is very personalized all about his personal life. When many sources, like Forbes Magazine and others, have confirmed his birth title to become Christopher Sarantakos, Angel's precise birth date remains unrevealed. Angel prefers to listing his birth date when only "December 19", omitting his birth month. A Internet Movie Database and other websites listings his birth month when 1968.
Discography
Completely one albums were self-freed under Apitrag Records.
Musical Invocation from either the World of Illusion (1998, as Angeldust)
Patterns One in the Trilogy (2000, hwhen the equivalent tracks as Musical Conjurings from either the World of Illusion)
Body Ii in the Trilogy (2000)
Models Iii in the Trilogy (2000)
Mindfreak (2002; intended as a soundtrack for his Mindfreak show)
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