{"id":2334,"date":"2013-10-22T17:22:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T16:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2013-10-24T11:39:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T10:39:16","slug":"luis-de-matos-wins-top-magic-circle-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/luis-de-matos-wins-top-magic-circle-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis de Matos wins top Magic Circle award."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/Luis.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/Luis.bmp\" alt=\"\" title=\"Luis de Matos\" width=\"470\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2341\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCongratulations to international illusionist <a href=\"http:\/\/luisdematos.com\/\">Luis de Matos<\/a> who has been honoured with the 2013 David Devant award by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themagiccircle.co.uk\/\">The Magic Circle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999 Luis was nominated &#8216;Magician of the Year&#8217; by the Academy of Magical Arts in Hollywood. In 2010 he was again honoured when fellow magicians around the world voted him &#8216;Illusionist of the Decade&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Luis is a household name in Portugal where he&#8217;s hosted and produced over 150 highly successful and award winning television shows. Last year, UK audiences saw Luis in action on &#8216;The Magicians&#8217; the hit BBC One show which put magic back on Saturday night television for the first time in over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned for the grandest of illusions, Luis de Matos is the man who made an elephant disappear in under five seconds, and a Ferrari melt away whilst surrounded by members of the audience. He made a six ton Renault truck appear in front of an invited audience of executives (in the company&#8217;s own building!) and when Disney launched the Disney Channel in Portugal it was Luis who magically produced Mickey Mouse in a spectacular illusion so he could switch on the TV channel for the very first time!<\/p>\n<p>For further enquiries, contact our bookings team on 0845 00 62442<\/p>\n<p><em>The David Devant is awarded to individuals who have made a significant contribution in advancing the art of magic internationally. The trophy is a replica bust of David Devant, the first President of The Magic Circle.  The original life size bronze is on permanent display in the society&#8217;s London headquarters.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/<!--\nvar addthis_append_data = 'false';\n\/\/-->\n<\/script>\n<div class=\"addthis_container\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=wp-4c32e42a5d9c79e6\" class=\"addthis_button\" addthis:url=\"https%3A%2F%2Fmagicians.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fluis-de-matos-wins-top-magic-circle-award%2F\" addthis:title=\"Luis+de+Matos+wins+top+Magic+Circle+award.\"><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#username=wp-4c32e42a5d9c79e6\"><\/script><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Button END -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to international illusionist Luis de Matos who has been honoured with the 2013 David Devant award by The Magic Circle. In 1999 Luis was nominated &#8216;Magician of the Year&#8217; by the Academy of Magical Arts in Hollywood. In 2010 he was again honoured when fellow magicians around the world voted him &#8216;Illusionist of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}