Shankar Junior

SHANKAR JUNIOR (Tejaswi), son of Prof Shankar & Lakshmi Shankar, was born on 29 July 1978. He graduated in Business Management in the year 1999 and did his post graduation in Computer Applications. He developed interest in magic at the early age of two and half years. He gave his first solo performance in 1982 at the age of 4 at Manipal, Karnataka.

Shankar Junior has performed more than 5000 shows all over India, USA, UAE, Bahrain, Muscat, U. K, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Kuwait and Mauritius. At the tender age of 4, he performed 25 shows in USA including the one at Madison Avenue, New York for a gathering of over 50,000 people.

His special interviews for the radio in India, Ireland, Bahrain, USA, U. K, has given him a huge following of fans and admirers around the globe. His unique magic tricks were recorded for the BBC, Thames Television London, NHK TV Japan, Hans Klok Production Germany, Edenac Productions France, Sri Lankan TV, MBC, apart from National Television Network like Doordarshan (Karnataka, Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai), Udaya and ETV.

He has won the first place in all the contests he took part in India since 1986 in both close up and stage categories including All India Child Magicians Competition (N.Delhi), All India Magicians Contest (Jamshedpur), and IBM-India Contest (Bombay). Shankar Junior won the Special Award of the Jury for the best performance of close up magic in the 18th Federation of International Society of Magicians' Convention held in Switzerland in 1991.

He is the first Indian to take part in an international magicians' competition and to win an award competing with seniors. He is also the first Indian magician to have performed and delivered a lecture on Indian Magic in 1996 at Leewarden, Netherlands.

Shankar Junior and his sister Yashaswini are the first Indians to perform in the youth show on the 70th Annual Convention of International Brotherhood of Magicians at Los Angeles, USA (98).

He performed more than 15 shows in Germany (1999) which included special performances on the preaching from the Bible.

He was selected to represent India at the Federation of International Societies of Magicians Convention held at The Hague in 2003

Shankar Junior is the recipient of The National Award - Ugadi Puraskar from the Madras Telugu Academy (1991) and was one among the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of India Awardees (2002).

He married Maithili in the year 2004 and is blessed with a son "Varchasvi"

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