VIDEO | Magician, musician and joker: Gogo Requiem as Peter Pan keeps and nurtures the child in himself and with his magic leaves no one indifferent

"Magic is a respected profession, but not in our country"

Today we will try to bring you closer to the magic from every aspect. What does magic look like, what kind of magic exists, who are the most famous magicians in their categories and who is the "mentalist" from this area who is the best in his "craft".

Born and raised in Croatia, Georgi Gavrovski came to his homeland in 1994 and began to "do magic" and compose music in Macedonia. Sometimes she meditates. He describes himself as a "joker". Too much M in his life, and Gogo is also known for his music as a singer and keyboardist in the band Requiem, but with his magic he is recognizable and unique and beyond these limits.

- There is no magic, there is nothing supernatural, there is a logical solution for everything, or it is all my job to tell you that it is normal, says Gogo.

And I do not know if he did any magic to make the sound of the videos crackle, but I'm sure we have no logical explanation for what we saw with our own eyes. Our "Peter Pan", as he experiences himself, managed to leave us in amazement and admiration, just as small children know how to "wonder", and they are his favorite audience, wherever he is in the world.

Gogo says that each of us should take care of the child, and he himself never wants to grow up. He does not want to have periods in the day when he has to be guided by certain rules and time limits, the typical "I have to" in adults: I have to get up at 8 o'clock, I have to go to work, I have to get to 12 o'clock with the assignment and so on. Although, of course, he fulfills certain obligations, but that is not his everyday life and, as he says himself, he does not want to enter a drum that will be "ground".

How he himself was "enchanted" by the magic of about 8 years, in the Big Tulip show, he tells in his own unique way, in the video below. Most importantly, Gogo was not impressed by the magic itself, but by the reaction of the person to whom it was made. And then he knew that he would do something that would provoke such reactions in people, namely that he would make people happy through his work.

Magical effect 1: Women are always right!

Magic is not recognized as an art in the wider world in the context of having an official academy where you can study magic and get a university degree. But, unlike the highly developed countries where their ministries of culture have the magic of the list of arts, in Macedonia it is not recognized in this ministry as art. There is a Jeff McBride Academy in Las Vegas, where certificates for magicians are obtained. You can enter this academy either if you pay "heavily" or, as in the case of Gogo, you get a scholarship.

In 2014 he received this scholarship, because in 2013 he became the champion of the Balkans in mentalism (where the jury included Jeff McBright himself) and then applied for the video academy. Unlike the others, who received a scholarship to learn something, Gogo got it to show what he knows, namely, to be a professor at that academy.

In the Balkans, and even in Europe, there is no similar school for magicians, although renowned magicians have their own smaller schools where children learn magic. As for Gogo, he used to teach others magic, but his current commitments do not allow him to engage and commit to this. He says that in order to learn magic, you must have a certain talent, just like in any other art or sport. He himself wanted to be a basketball player, as he says in his style: "out of 10 shots, 25 missed". Otherwise, he trained handball and was the best picker in the league but did not continue his sports career.

In the period from 2009 to 2015, the New Macedonian Association of Magicians functioned, and in the period when Gogo was its president, as he says, he "tore his nerves" in the attempts to introduce magic as an art in the Ministry of Culture. In that period, he worked everything except magic. That is why he "raised his hands" from the attempts to change something in this direction, because he thinks that it takes time to "wake up" our mentality.

- In our country, this profession is viewed with ridicule, while in the United States, for example, they literally bow to you when they hear what you are doing, because it is a very rare talent. And how much magic is respected there, just one example is that the last 5-6 years in the show "America has talent" it is the magicians who win, says Gogo.

Magic Effect 2: Lottery

There is no ultimate level of perfection in magic, there is always something new to learn and master. For example, if 5.000 new car models are released annually in the world, 50 new effects are released in magic. Otherwise, magic is divided into several categories: mentalism, close up, big illusions, comic magic, general magic and card magic. Otherwise, there is no difference between magic, trick, illusion, effect, all those words are synonymous with the same thing. Gogo is the Balkan champion in mentalism (000) and vice-champion in "close up" in 2013, when he was asked to become part of the board of presidents of the Balkan federation and not to compete anymore, because the other magicians withdrew when they found out that Gogo is part of the competition. Since 2015 he is part of the international jury of these competitions.

In the world in the category of mentality, Gogo singles out Deren Brown, in the "close up" of the general public is known Qin Lin, the winner of "America has talent", in the big illusions stands out Christian Farla, who holds the world record of 10 - 15 big illusions in a period of 10 minutes, then the only magician who has a bust in the magic castle in the United States, known as the "Professor" of the whole "close up" - Dai Vernon. Modern magic, says Gogo, cannot be imagined without David Blaine and Dynamo, and the father of all of the above is, of course, David Copperfield - the father of modern stage illusion. In magic, there are people who design the effects and people who perform them. An example of the former is Dai Vernon, while the latter is David Copperfield. The creators of the effects, the public usually never finds out who they are, unless they seriously start searching the internet.

This was our understanding of everything Gogo told us, and we tried to convey it in the most comprehensible way possible. However, the way he speaks, the "joke" that is his specificity, the gestures typical of a magician, we can not convey to you in words. Therefore, the following is the video from the entire conversation with the musician, magician and joker Gogo - Requiem. Enjoy!

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