Liu Qian

essential information

Liu Qian, born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan Province on June 25, 1976, is an internationally renowned Chinese magician and magic artist. He graduated from Soochow University in Taiwan. Live performances are performed in more than 200 cities in more than 30 countries around the world, and have been invited to international magician conferences all over the world for many times to act as guest performers and lecturers of special lectures.

In 2011, he won the FISM Asian magician of the year award. In 2012, he was awarded the "global magician of the year" award by Hollywood Academy of magic arts, becoming the first Chinese to receive this honor. He is also the first Asian magician to hold a world tour and be invited to hold a special ticket show in Las Vegas and Hollywood magic castle. Magic magazine, an authoritative professional magic magazine in the United States, called him "the most famous magician of our time". In 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2019, it will be on CCTV Spring Festival gala for five times. From 2009 to 2013, he has been on the Forbes China celebrity list for four consecutive years. In April 2013, in Saint Vincent, Italy, he was awarded the gold award of the Grand Master of magic, the oldest award in European film and art circles, and became the first Chinese winner of the award. In November of the same year, the magic legend David Berglas presented the David baglass International Magic award to Liu Qian at the 40 year old International Magic Convention in London. Two generations of magic giants were carrying the torch of magic. Liu Qian was also the first Chinese magician to win the award. In 2015, FISM (International Magic League) World Magic Competition, known as "magic Olympics", invited Liu Qian to Italy as a judge. He is the only Asian judge. In 2018, Liu Qian once again served as the Chinese judge of FISM magic conference, gathered with many international "demon kings" to witness the birth of rookie champion.

Early experience

Liu Qian was born on June 25, 1976 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan Province. He became interested in magic at the age of 7. When he was 8 years old, he began to perform for his classmates. "The first performance was eating pencils from his mouth and taking them out from the back of his head." In 1988, Liu Qian made friends with Tang Wenlong, a big boy in charge of the magic props counter. After that, Tang Wenlong encouraged Liu Qian to take part in the competition. At that time, the famous magic master David Copperfield was on his world tour, and his whole team was invited to be the judge of the "Youth Magic Competition". At that time, more than 200 people signed up for the competition. The last 12-year-old Liu Qian won his first magic competition trophy "all Taiwan Children's magic competition champion" in front of magic International Master David Copperfield. In 1992, Liu Qian met Mr. Xu Leisi, a professional magician. He taught Liu Qian more professional magic techniques, and let him know that it is not good to build a car behind closed doors. He must do international exchanges. Liu Qian worked and performed there in his spare time, and spent the period from 16 to 20 years old. This is the period of the fastest progress in Liu Qian's life, and also the period of the most powerful close-up magic skills. In high school, Liu Qian worked in a bar performing magic. In 1999, Liu Qian graduated from the Japanese Department of Soochow University in Taiwan and began to enter the magic world.

Acting experience

In 1998, he won the best creative award of the first "formosamagic con vention" World Magic Competition and the special award from the American magician Association. In 2000, he participated in the International Magic Convention in Naniwa International Magic Competition in Osaka and won the stage magic department champion and special award. In 2001, he participated in Shanghai International Magic Festival and won the silver medal. In the same year, he won the Bronze Lion Award in the magic competition of Wuqiao International Art Festival. In 2003, he began to host and plan the normal TV program magic star on Star TV. In May, he won the Grand Prix award from the World Magic Seminar Asia and was invited to perform in Las Vegas, Sweden and Italy in 2004. In July of the same year, he was invited to perform in the magic castle, the holy land of magic world, and he was invited to more than 30 international magic conferences from 2002 to 2008 as a guest performer and lecturer. In December of the same year, he won the award of "best foreign magician of the year" from Japan professional magic association. in 2006, he was invited to the annual meeting of "i.b.international brother of magicians annual convention" held in Miami, USA as the opening guest of the evening. After the performance, he received standing applause from more than 3000 magicians from all over the world. In 2007, he was one of the judges of magic competition unit "big magic competition" in the variety show "variety cell phone" and the host of magic performance unit "Liu Qian magic show". in 2008, he made a personal two-hour special for the first time in prime time on Japanese mainstream TV stations, and won the first audience rating in the same period. In the same year, he was awarded the award of "best close-up magician of the year" by Japan japancup Association. in 2009, he performed close-up magic magic "magic hand" at CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and won the first prize of audience's favorite program "quyi and other categories". In April of the same year, he was one of the judges in Hunan Satellite TV magic program "golden magic group". In May, the 27 Asian city Chinese mainland began to hold the "2009-- dream" place, which was China's first magician in the history of Chinese magic. in 2010, he performed the close-up magic "myriad changes" at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and won the first prize of "quyi, other categories" as the audience's favorite program. In May of the same year, he was awarded the "best contribution award of the decade" in the Merlin award by the international Magicians Society. In the same year, he was awarded honorary director by Suzhou University. In July, he was invited to speak at Beijing Film Academy. in 2011, he held two special performances at Wynn Hotel theater in Las Vegas, becoming the first Asian magician to hold a special performance in Las Vegas. In June of the same year, he became the cover character of magic magazine. The magazine, with the title of "the most famous magician in the world", narrated Liu Qian's more than 20 years of magic career in an eight page interview. He was the first magician to appear on the cover of the magazine in Asia. In July, he attended the EMC global magic summit in Portugal and published the original version of "the Berglas effect", one of the legendary magic effects of the 20th century. The show is broadcast live all over the world through the Internet, bringing together 33 magic masters from all over the world. After the performance, all the magicians on the scene applauded, and the magicians who watched online all over the world left messages asking, "how did Liu Qian do it?". After the event, baglass wrote a letter to Liu Qian, saying "you do it better than me!" You do better than me! )。 Even the famous magician David Copperfield, after watching the performance many times, couldn't help asking Liu Qian "how can I do it?" through his magic consultant Chris Kenner And hope to discuss magic with Copperfield next time. In December, he won the Asian magician of the year award jointly presented by FISM (International Magic League) and AMA (Asian magic association) in Hong Kong, becoming the first Chinese to win the award. In April 2012, he was awarded the magic of the year by the Academy of magic art in Beverly Hills, Hollywood. On the evening of the award dinner, Liu Qian's overseas supporters packed a private plane and circled in Beverly Hills for an hour, congratulating Liu Qian with a running lantern. In August of the same year, he performed for the Olympic china night at Barbican Art Center in London, UK. in April 2013, he was awarded the European grollad'oro-master of magic in Saint Vincent, Italy, becoming the first Chinese magician to win the prize. In June of the same year, he went to South Korea to record the special program "themagicshock", which set the highest audience rating in the history of Korean magic show. The next day after the program was broadcast, Liu Qian's name became a hot keyword in the search list in South Korea, and the original "love egg" Video Magic spread wildly on the Internet at home and abroad. in November 2013,

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