Master Of The Cards
FHM Australia|May 2020
Jason Ladanye is a professional, award-winning sleight-of-hand entertainer who has performed card magic all around the world for the last twenty years. He specializes in corporate events, trade shows, and private parties for Fortune 500 companies. Jason’s clients include the NY Yankees, General Electric, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, Michael Bolton Charities, Fuji Films, and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance. He’s performed for celebrities such as Bruce Willis, Michael Bolton, Tom Holland, Rosie Perez, Wolfgang Peterson, CC Sabathia, Brett Gardner, and many more. He’s consulted and performed on national television shows including ABC’s 20/20 and Inside Edition.
Master Of The Cards

Even though Jason is based in New York City, he’s performed in 16 different countries in the last year alone. He’s a regular performer at both the Chicago Magic Lounge in Chicago, IL, and the prestigious Magic Castle in Hollywood, CA. When Jason’s not performing, he’s consulting, teaching, and lecturing all across the world. He wrote two books on sleight of hand, Game Changer and Confident Deceptions. Both are considered best-sellers among magicians.

To see why his peers consider Jason as one of the best card handlers alive today, check out his YouTube channel CardMagicByJason.

HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU FIRST GOT INTERESTED IN MAGIC?

I saw my first card trick when I was seven years old. My older brother showed it to me. He buried the four Aces into different parts of the deck. Then he snapped his fingers and now they were on top of the deck. My mind was blown. I began my journey into magic immediately after that moment. About a year later, I saw David Copperfield on television. Watching him walk through the Great Wall of China and making the Statue of Liberty vanish had a profound effect on me. Soon after that, David was performing at a theater near where I lived and my mother surprised me with tickets to the show. There’s one trick that I’ll never forget from that performance: he vanished from inside a box on stage and instantly appeared on a motorcycle in the middle of the audience — right next to me! I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing and feeling. I knew right there and then I wanted to be a professional magician.

HAS YOUR INTEREST ALWAYS BEEN ALL SLEIGHT OF HAND WITH CARDS, OR HAVE YOU DABBLED IN OTHER TYPES OF MAGIC?

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