Dynamo’s back to say thank you
STEVEN Frayne whips out a bunch of lottery tickets from his pocket. “Would you like to see some magic before we get going?” the world-famous magician asks. The 35-year-old magician and illusionist, best known as Dynamo, has just stepped off a long flight from the UK.
He places a stack of lottery tickets in the palm of his right hand.
Then he covers the tickets with his left hand. He claps his hands together and, in a flash, the tickets miraculously turn into R100 notes.
“That’s how I play the lottery,” Frayne says, with a chuckle.
The award-winning magician says it’s good to be back in South Africa.
“When I came here the last time to film an insert for my show, Magician Impossible, I met the most incredible people. I was blown away by the reception I was given,” he says.
“Do you know that most of my fans on social media are from South Africa? That’s crazy, right?” he says.
Frayne is in the country to promote his forthcoming Seeing is Believing Live SA Tour, which kicks off in May.
He’s the magician who’s walked on water across the River Thames, levitated in front of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro and walked down the outside of the LA Times building. He’s even predicted the soccer World Cup outcome.
“I can’t wait to amaze South African audiences with what I have in store for them. This tour is kind of a thank you to all my South African fans,” he says.
While Frayne has established himself as one of the most successful magicians of his generation, becoming one wasn’t always on the cards for him.
“My grandpa saw this bunch of kids beating me up and throwing me around, and so later that day he showed me some magic techniques to scare them away,” he says.
Some of the magician’s biggest fans include A-list celebrities such as former Manchester United footballer Rio Ferdinand and Hollywood star Brad Pitt.
Frayne will start his SA tour in Pretoria in May before heading to Cape Town.