David Copperfield: A Biography

David Copperfield is one of the most successful illusionists of all time. He has managed to make a very substantial living off of his illusions, as Forbes magazines named him the most commercially successful magicians of all time. He has sold a significant amount of tickets to his shows, in or around forty million and has made over one billion dollars from ticket sales. This is an extraordinary feat for an illusionist act and David Copperfield will definitely go down in history for accomplishing many great things for the illusionist and magic trades.

David Copperfield was born in the United States of America, New Jersey to be more specific. He was born in 1956 by a different name and eventually changed his stage name to David Copperfield, drawing inspiration from Charles Dickens's book by the same name. He started his interest and practice of magic at the age of ten and by age fourteen he became the youngest person to ever be granted admittance to the Society of American Magicians.

David Copperfield is an extremely successful entertainer who has had a long and storied career. For anyone interested in seeing extensive knowledge and facts about all of the shows and such that he was involved in throughout his career, magiciens.biz is a great site that has all of this information readily available.

David Copperfield's first show was actually a performance in a stage show aptly named The Magic Man, this was a musical based in Chicago. This occurred his first year at college, he dropped out to become a part of the show. By the time he turned nineteen years old he was already headlining his own show at a hotel in Honolulu in Hawaii. This was a tremendous feat for a young adult of his age to already be headlining his own show.

David Copperfield moved into his career on television in 1977, when he hosted a show on ABC called The Magic of ABC. This was just the first of many magic specials that David Copperfield would host throughout his life. In between 1977 and 2001 David Copperfield hosted twenty television magic specials.

In 1996, David Copperfield began writing a book about magic with the help of several other notable people. This book which was named David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible and it did experience a vast amount of success sales wise, only contributing to David Copperfield's successful career with magic. The success of his first book inspired David Copperfield to write a second book. His second book was titled David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination, which also experienced vast success.

David Copperfield also decided to break into Broadway along with a bunch of other people who collaborated with him, with his show called Dreams and Nightmares. This Broadway show broke a number of box office records only further proving the longevity of David Copperfield's commercial success with magic and illusions.

David Copperfield is definitely one of the most notable magicians of modern times and has earned all the notoriety that he has gotten, he has worked hard and tirelessly to promote his magic and illusions and gain massive popularity for both.