Luís de Matos


Luis de Matos is a Portuguese magician. He has been called “the best known illusionist in Portugal” and was the co-winner of the "Golden Grolla" in 2013 alongside Lu Chen and Dynamo.
He was the youngest magician ever to receive "The Devant Award" from The Magic Circle.

Life and career

Luis de Matos was born in Maputo, Portuguese Mozambique in 1970, a Portuguese overseas province until 1975. At the age of five he moved with his parents to Portugal where the family settled in Avelar, a municipality of the city of Ansião. At age 14, he moved to Coimbra to complete his technical studies, living with his cousins. There, he earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural technical engineering from Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra part of the Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra.
He had his first guest appearances on television in 1990; two years later, he hosted his own television series entitled "Isto é Magia!". This was followed by several other successful TV magic shows.
In 1995 Luis de Matos predicted the winning numbers of Portugal’s national lottery one week's time in advance and, as one journalist put it, went overnight “from being ‘the cute kid who does tricks’ into the David Copperfield of Portugal.”
In the following years, he won several international prizes such as the "Magician of the year" and the “Mandrake d’or”.
In 2003, he was asked to cooperate in preparing the opening ceremony for the Estádio do Dragão in Porto. During that ceremony, he had bags with pieces of blue silk distributed to the audience and asked them to hold the pieces aloft simultaneous. Then, he made all the some 52,000 pieces of silk vanish, a trick that entered the Guinness Book of Records.
Luis de Matos has made appearances and started as a regular in TV shows worldwide like "Shalakabula" in Spain, BBC ”The Magicians”, and its latest Spanish version :es:Por arte de magia|“Por Arte de Magia”. He had a program for ten years on TVG.
In 2010, in collaboration with and Marco Tempest, Luis de Matos organized The Essential Magic Conference, at that time the first online magic conference. His most ambitious project to date is the creation of ESTÚDIO33 in Ansião, at the same time a TV studio, workshop, documentation center, and museum.
, April 2013.
In 2013 Luis de Matos receives in Los Angeles, his third award by the Hollywood Academy of Magical Arts, the “Special Fellowship Award."
Luís de Matos also organizes “Street Magic Festivals”, occurring every year in Portugal, where he brings performers from all over the world.

Television

The Illusionists 2.0

Books

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