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Rene Lavand

Rene Lavand is a magician from Argentina specialising in close-up performance. He has appeared in Ed Sullivan’s and Johnny Carson’s television shows as well as shows at Hollywood’s Magic Castle.

The catchphrase he uses to close several of his tricks is “No se puede hacer más lento” (Spanish for “it can’t be done any slower”), referencing the intentional slow pace at which he performs.

Watch Rene Lavand perform his special brand of amazing magic.


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For more information about Rene Lavand, please visit his official website.
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Charlie Miller

Charles Miller was a magician, author and renowned expert in pure sleight of hand magic. He became obsessed with sleight of hand magic and by ...


John Cornelius

John Cornelius is one of the most creative magicians in the world and the first American to win a F.I.S.M. World Championship of Magic competition ...


Cyril Takayama

Cyril Takayama became interested in magic when he was seven years old after seeing a magic show in Las Vegas. He watched a guest magician ...


Martin Nash

Martin Nash was born in Parksville, British Columbia. He performs as "The Charming Cheat" and has long presented outstanding gambling themed shows that are both ...


Jerry Andrus

Jerry Andrus was many things - poet, philosopher, inventor, humanist, agnostic, magician; all these things and more. Jerry was mostly recognized as a magician and ...


Lennart Green

An international lecturer and FISM's 1991 World Close Up Champion of The World, Lennart Green is based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Lennart might have won FISM ...


Penn & Teller

For over 30 years, Penn & Teller have been performing together. The Las Vegas headliners specialize in gory magic, exposing frauds and are clever pranksters. ...


Suzy Wandas

Suzy Wandas (1896 - July 12, 1986) was born Jean Van Dyk in Belgium to magicians Charles and Elizabeth Van Dyk. She became part of ...


Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008), was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and auto racing enthusiast. Newman was a ...


Larry Jennings

Born in 1933 in Detroit, Michigan Larry Jennings became one of the most influential magicians of the 21st century. Larry had seen magic and learnt ...


Ricky Jay

While Ricky Jay has long been considered one of the world's great sleight-of-hand artists, his career is further distinguished by the remarkable variety of his ...


John Scarne

John Scarne began practicing sleight of hand with the goal of becoming a card shark, but his Roman Catholic mother dissuaded her son from gambling ...


Guy Hollingworth

Guy Hollingworth, born 1974, is an English barrister, conjuror, author and lecturer. Hollingworth first became interested in magic at the age of 13 when he ...


Jimmy Grippo

Jimmy Grippo was born in Italy and moved to America with his parents at the age of 12. He was the house magician at Caesar's ...


Tommy Wonder

Tommy Wonder developed an interest in conjuring at an early age. He studied acting, dancing and singing for three years at the Academie voor Podiumvorming ...


Marc Paul

Marc Paul is a mind-reader, psychological entertainer and corporate conference speaker who has entertained and amazed audiences both in the UK and worldwide with his ...


Derek Dingle

Derek Dingle was a renowned English close-up magician. Like many magicians before him, Dingle became interested in magic after receiving a box of magic tricks ...


Curiosidades Show

Feel the thrill of being face to face with the improbable, communicating through a universal language, and amazed by artists who carry you to a ...


David Stone

David Stone is one of the France's youngest, most popular magicians. After he had finished his University studies, he took the plunge and became a ...


Ed Marlo

Ed Marlo was one of the most notable names in card magic. Marlo himself coined the term cardician, a term which has since been used ...


Michael Skinner

For over 20 years, Michael Skinner was the magician in residence at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, Nevada. He studied under Eddie Fechter, and ...


Akira Fuji

At the ripe age of 42, Akira Fuji has become one of Japan's hottest close-up magicians. With many appearances on Japanese television, his reputation among ...


Fantasio

Few people know that Ricardo Fantasio was the highest-paid magician to ever appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show," or that he worked on the same ...