Criss Angel is a musician, illusionist, and stunt performer, and the creator and director of the "Criss Angel Mindfreak" television series on A&E Network. He has been doing his Mindfreak performances since 2001; his television show debuted on July 20, 2005. He also did a television special in 2003 called Supernatural. His brothers and mother are also regulars on the Mindfreak television series.
Criss Angel was in an industrial band called Angeldust, which he started with Klay Scott (now known as Klayton of Celldweller) after Klayton's previous band Circle of Dust broke up. Angeldust released a CD called Magical Conjurings from the World of Illusion in 1998 and performed in Madison Square Garden. He has since dropped the name Angeldust and released several more CDs as Criss Angel.
He won the Merlin Award from the International Society of Magicians in 2001 and 2004; he is the only two-time winner of that award.
Angel said on his television show that he considers another well known magician, Lance Burton, to be a good friend.
Among the stunts Angel has performed for television audiences are being towed 80 feet into the air while handcuffed inside a barrel filled with water, then releasing the barrel after Angel had taken off the handcuffs and tied himself to a safety rope; and laying on top of a bed of nails and having a Hummer drive on top of him, levitating himself and strangers off the street, also being hung from fish hooks into his back while being dangled from a helicopter. People who are not professional magicians are widely discouraged from performing these stunts.
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