At the age of five, he moved with his parents to Portugal, where the family settled in Avelar, a civil parish of the municipality of Ansião.

[1] In 1995, he predicted the winning numbers of Portugal national lottery one week in advance, leading to his rise in prominence.

As one journalist put it, he went overnight “from being ‘the cute kid who does tricks’ into the David Copperfield of Portugal.”[4] In the following years, he won several international prizes, such as "Magician of the Year" (Hollywood Academy of Magical Arts−1999) and the “Mandrake d’or” (French Society of Magicians−2000).

Then, he made all the 52,000 pieces of silk vanish, a trick that entered the Guinness Book of Records.

[4] He has made appearances and starred as a regular in TV shows worldwide, like "Shalakabula" in Spain, BBC ”The Magicians”, and its latest Spanish version, “Por Arte de Magia”.