19-year-old Nigerian Magician, Babs Cardini wows audiences by performing tricks of turning objects into money on the streets of Lagos.
In his first magic experience, he asked his friend to pick a random card. He then looked into his eyes and told him the card he had picked without seeing it.
He tells the media outlet the most popular trick he is asked to perform is to turn objects into money.
“The way I am right now, I’m magic myself. I can just see a performance on television or anywhere and know how it was done. The, I just do it and add it to my list of tricks and stuff. Me and magic, we’re like 5 and 6. It’s kind of self-taught and gifted. At the same time, it’s more practice.”
Babs lamented one of his challenges performing for Nigerians is that majority of the request he gets from them is to turn objects to money.
“And the Nigerian mentality, once they see you as a magician, all they ask you is ‘can you turn this to money?’ Most of their requests are about money,”
While stating that he has received numerous calls from both people who seek friendship and others who look to get certain tasks accomplished, the teenage magician said that anywhere he gets to, people are always wowed with his tricks. People contact him for friendship and want to know him more.
Although Babs’ father had expressed doubts about him taking the art as profession, the young magician stated in another interview that he intends touring states in Nigeria and, thereafter, going international to showcase his skills on a much larger scale.
“I’m going to take this big because it’s very rare in Nigeria. They don’t really go out to perform because of the Nigerian mentality and the way people think you’re using voodoo. I’ll love to go to every state in Nigeria, making people know that I exist. From there, I’ll love to take it international,”
This Nigerian magician wants to be the best in the world.
— BBC News Africa (@BBCAfrica) September 16, 2019
19-year-old, Babs Cardini wows audiences by performing tricks on the streets of Lagos. He showed us his most popular trick - turning objects into money. pic.twitter.com/9T2uDDMw7X
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