MAXWELL BLADE

When young Maxwell Blade discovered ​Mark Wilson's magic television​ shows in the 1970s, he was awestruck. He immediately went to his local library and borrowed every book on magic and began to learn each trick. Learning and practicing magic was at first just a hobby to Blade - his dream was to become a musician - but Blade recalls that he didn't want to return his library books as a youth for fear that others would learn his secrets. Blade also began to teach himself drums and piano and, at eight-years-old, began to play music in his local church... Not long after graduating from high school,​ he joined a rock band called Exit Five, which later changed their name to Shark Avenue. The band recorded two albums and toured for several years. Although Blade was living his childhood dream of becoming a rockstar, he still continued to entertain guests and his bandmates with the magic tricks he had picked up over the years. In 1989, Shark Avenue amicably split and Blade decided to segway his..

Primary location: Hot Springs United States