A twelve-year-old who couldn't say a word.
I'm Johnny Wu, and I started Omni Magic. At twelve I was sent alone to Canada to go to school. I didn't speak English. The eighth graders picked on the quiet kid who couldn't answer back, and for a while I thought about quitting school.
Then a teacher played a David Copperfield video in class. The same kids who mocked me went silent. I had found a language that needed no words. I locked myself in my room for two months with a deck of cards, and when I came out I had something to say.
That is still the whole idea. I don't do card trick after card trick. I build one moment around the people in the room, and I protect it like a live TV special. Twenty years later that moment has played for 700 executives at Google HQ, on Netflix's Star Search, on a TEDx stage, for Bulgari, Nike and Amazon, and in a San Francisco ballroom where it helped raise $2,000,000 in ten minutes.
I founded Omni Magic in Los Angeles in 2017 for people who wanted more than a standard event act. The name is the promise. Omni means all of it: magic, mentalism, hypnosis, close-up, stage, virtual and comedy, customized to the room in front of us, whether that room is a kid's birthday, a bar mitzvah full of teens, a wedding, or a corporate stage.
As the bookings grew past what one performer could cover, I went looking for someone who could hold a room the way I do. That is how Dylan George became the other half of Omni Magic. Today the two of us cover more events, more rooms and more cities, with the same standard in both.
Johnny
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