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Revision as of 22:23, 19 August 2018
Shin Lim | |
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Nationality | American and Canadian |
Occupation | Close-up Magician |
Years active | 2009-Present |
Known for | Penn & Teller: Fool Us Season 2
Penn & Teller: Fool Us Season 4 America's Got Talent (season 13) |
Shin Lim is a magician out of Boston Massachusetts, known for his award winning acts such as,” The Dream Act” and ,”52 Shades of Red”. Lim has been featured in numerous stage and television shows such as Penn & Teller: Fool Us, and currently is a contestant on NBC’s America's Got Talent. Lim generally does not speak while performing, and instead puts focus on his music and routines to connect with the audience.
Early life
Lim is the second of three children. He was born in British Columbia where his dad was completing his post graduate studies. At 2, he returned to Singapore with his parents and at 11, they moved to Acton, Massachusetts.[1] Lim received his education through the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School.[2] At as early as 9 years old, Lim was interested in music. His grandmother had originally given him a violin, but he became frustrated with that and smashed it after a practice session, and switched over to piano. After graduating from high school, he attended the School of Music at Lee University in Tennessee to continue his education in music.[2]
Career
Alongside music, Lim was interested in magic during his younger years. His older brother Yi had shown him a simple card trick, and when Lim asked him how it was done, his brother told him to go look up how it was done on YouTube.[1] Lim delved into the videos available there and taught himself most of the tricks.[3] As he started to improve his skills, he developed his own tricks, and used YouTube as a platform to show his performances and technique.[1]
In 2011, at the age of 20, Lim was diagnosed with carpal tunnel. As the Lee School of Music required him to spend up to 20 hours a week on piano practice, he was forced to choose either his music or his magic career.[2][1] He opted to stick to his passion in magic, taking first a sabbatical from the school eventually followed by dropping out and returning to live with his parents.[1] Lim continued to develop tricks and produce YouTube videos of his magic, as well as developing tricks to be sold to interested fans.[1]
He participated in the 2012 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Magiques (International Federation of Magic Societies) World Championship where he came in sixth place. Lim was unsure of his career from this point, but was contacted in 2013 by an agent that had seen his performance from the World Championship and offered him to tour across China. Lim agreed, but in addition to extending his routine to include 20 minutes worth of tricks, he dropped any narration from his routine as he did not speak any Chinese; this would become a defining feature of his future acts. By the end of the tour, Lim was featured as the final artist during the show.[1]
In 2015, he won the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Magiques World Championship for Close-up Card Magic.[2]
Lim appeared twice on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, once in 2015 (shortly after winning the World Championship) and again in 2017. Both times, his sleight-of-hand tricks successfully fooled hosts Penn & Teller.[1] Penn Jillette described Lim's routine on his first appearance: "The idea of doing card tricks — which are silly at their very core — really seriously and really, really importantly is wonderful."[1] Jillette later described Lim as part of a third-wave of magicians, bridging the gap between spectacle performances such as David Copperfield (illusionist) and Doug Henning, and the reactivity aspects of magicians like David Blaine.[1] Lim's first appearance on Fool Us, uploaded to YouTube, went viral and has achieved over 50 million views, and led to his second appearance on the show by invitation. His performance in 2015 led to a number of other invitations to perform, including at the House of Magic in Macau, China, what Lim considered this opportunity "the best gig in magic".[1] Lim describes his approach to magic as more an artistic show rather than to trick people. Lim "I’m trying to change the outlook on card magic — to make it more artistic, more visual."[2] He has incorporated his past musical aspirations into his acts, putting nearly all his tricks to music while staying silent during the tricks.[2] Lim considers his act as the magic equipment of Inception that balances elements of an art film and that of a film aimed for the masses.[1]
Around March 2016, Lim had injured two of his left thumb tendons and received surgery to fix these. He had feared that he would lose the ability to perform, but recovered after intense therapy without losing any of the skill required to pull off his full routines.[4]
Lim is currently participating on the 13th season of America's Got Talent, having made his way to the semi-finals.
Personal life
Lim is currently engaged to an Casey, an Australian girl whom he proposed to on August 20th 2017 in front of over 2000 people during a magic show at the House of Magic in Macau.
Awards
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2010 | World Teen Close-Up Magic | 1st Place | |
2011 | Adult Card Magic I.B.M. | 1st Place | |
2011 | North American Adult Card Magic (Joint S.A.M. and I.B.M.) | Champion | |
2012 | FISM- North American Card Magic (Magic Olympics) | Finalist (In Top 6, represented North America) | |
2014 | North American Joint S.A.M. and I.B.M. | People's Choice | |
2015 | I.B.M North America | 1st Place and People's Choice | |
2015 | Penn And Teller: Fool Us | Fooler | |
2015 | FISM | World Champion in Close-Up Card Magic | |
2017 | Penn and Teller: Fool Us | Fooler | 2nd time fooler |
2018 | Merlin Award | Best Close-Up Magician |
Magic Creations
Year | Title | Effect | Notes |
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2011 | Flawless | Take on ambitious card | |
2011 | Shinag | Unique card reveal through card spring | |
2011 | SPELL | Spelling card trick (similar to ACAAN or CAAN) | |
2011 | Control Freak | Two card controls | |
2011 | Think | CAAN | |
2011 | Shinsplint | Card by Card Inversion | |
2011 | Change of Heart | Color Changes | |
2012 | Shinanigens | Culmination of 27 visual card effects | |
2012 | IV(Four) | Collection of card productions | |
2012 | 21 | 21 card moves/effects | |
2012 | The Vanishing | Coin vanish/ object transposition | |
2013 | S.S.S. | Smoke device | |
2013 | 52 Shades of Red (v1) | Visual complete routine | |
2014 | Iconic | Phone Effects | |
2014 | Iclear | Phone to glass | |
2014 | Flash Deck Switch | Deck switching device | |
2014 | The Switch | Card switch | |
2015 | 52 Shades of red v2 | Update to the 52 shades routine | |
2015 | S.S.S. (2015) | Update to the original S.S.S. | |
2016 | Gone Deck | Box vanish | |
2016 | The Dream Act | Full transposition routine | |
2017 | 52 Shades of Red V3 | The final installment to the 52 shades of red routine |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2015 | Penn and Teller: Fool Us | Himself | Fooler |
2017 | Penn and Teller: Fool Us | Himself | Fooler for a 2nd time |
2018 | America's Got Talent | Himself | Current Contestant (in the semi-finals) |
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Morrell, Dan (August 24, 2017). "Waltham's Shin Lim could be the biggest name in magic since David Blaine". Boston Globe. Retrieved August 17, 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f "A Waltham magician is blowing minds on 'America's Got Talent'". The Boston Globe. August 13, 2018. Retrieved August 17, 2018.
- ^ "Magic In The Computer Light: Shin Lim's Journey To The #1 Sleight Of Hand Artist In The World". Huffington Post. March 1, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2018.
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