Michael Bairefoot: Using His Illusion | Working for a Living
Michael Bairefoot decided to become a magician at age 6, after he saw his father make a quarter vanish.
He told The Surge that he was from DC, but after a well-placed pause added that it stood for Darlington County. He attended Francis Marion University on a tennis scholarship and was a political science major, transferring from Benedict College in Columbia after his first year.
Bairefoot, now 47, moved to Myrtle Beach in 1993, after already working summers at Thee DollHouse.
“It was a straight magic show like a show you would see in Vegas with the girls dancing and the guy doing magic,” he said.
His reasoning for gravitating here made sense.
“To make a living at what I do, you’ve got to be close to a seashore. You need a place where you have got tourists and a place that has a venue.”
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