Lucky break

When Normando Macalinao tried to look for work as a full-time magician, he was turned down many times. He eventually decided to leave Dubai and try his luck elsewhere, but a fateful meeting gave him the break he badly wanted. “One week before my flight I met Moe Jabry and he said ‘I want to manage you’ and that changed my life,” he says. “I’m doing my real love, which is magic.”