Joe Labero

Joe Labero

Joe Labero (born July 28, 1963 in Alvesta, Sweden) is a Swedish magician. Joe Labero is a stage name derived from his birthname: Lars Bengt Roland Johansson.

Illusionist career

At the age of 12 years Joe got his first "Magic Box". He started to practice and decided to be a professional. At first he called himself "Magino" and 1980 he won the Swedish championships of magic. He met his mentor, the Swedish magician Carlo Tornedo. Carlo told him to use the first 2 letters in his name to create "Joe Labero" and he has now registered that name for official use.

1991 he, against all recommendations,Fact|date=March 2008 put up his first big production "A Magic Night" at Berns in Stockholm. The show was a great success and was sold out and performed 657 times. The show was shown all over Sweden and abroad for the following years. He toured until 1995.

In 1996 he premiered in Danze Fantasy Productions' new show "Mystique" at Conrad Jupiter's Casino in Australia which ran for 16 months. The next year he presented another show there and called it "Illusions". In 1998 he took "Illusions" to Sweden. Together with the original performers he made a huge success and performed this show until 1999 when he remade it and called it "Joe Labero show" and performed it until 2002 all over Sweden.

After this he created the "Castle Tour" in Sweden which was more intimate with the audience and he continued to use a similar theme later at the "Ship of Illusions" tour when traveling by boat around Scandinavia.

Together with the piano artist Robert Wells he created "Rhapsody in Rock with Magic". This was a big show that combined live orchestral music with magic. They started in 2002 and met again using the same concept in the "Christmas Spectacular Show".

In September 2007 his show "Invited to Labero" with an Asian theme started at Rondo in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Las Vegas controversy

In the spring of 2007, Labero was interviewed in the train operator SJ's magazine "Kupé" where he made the following statement: [Sv icon [http://www.resume.se/nyheter/2007/05/10/mediabolaget-far-upplaxnin/index.xml Resume.se: Mediabolaget får uppläxning av SJ] ]

Later expressed regret and excused himself in an interview with Expressen: [Sv icon [http://expressen.se/nyheter/1.677414 Expressen: "Jag kan bara be om förlåtelse"] ]

Filmography

References

External links

* [http://www.labero.com/index_eng.html Joe Labero's Official Website]
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* [http://www.thelocal.se/7274/20070511/ The Local - Sweden's news in English] (news article)


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