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Steve Cohen (born February 1, 1971) is an American magician who specializes in parlor magic. Sometimes called the "millionaires' magician", he performs regularly in a suite at the Waldorf Astoria New York in Manhattan and at private parties in other places.〔 ==Biography== Steve Cohen was born in Yonkers, New York on February 1, 1971, and raised in Yorktown Heights and Chappaqua in the northern portion of Westchester County, New York. He attended Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua and Cornell University, and also participated in a foreign exchange program at Waseda University in Tokyo. He is fluent in the Japanese language, and has attained Level One certification in the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. Since 1997, the Japanese magic manufacturer Tenyo Co, Ltd. has appointed Cohen to translate the instructional booklets for their international line of magic products from Japanese to English.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Inventor's Profiles )〕 Cohen lived in Tokyo for five years, where he worked as a society entertainer at the Park Hyatt Tokyo hotel in Shinjuku. For the last two years of his stay in Tokyo, Cohen entertained guests weekly at the New York Bar & Grill, the setting of Sofia Coppola's film Lost in Translation. In 2005, Harper Collins published his first book, ''Win the Crowd: Unlock the Secrets of Influence, Charisma and Showmanship'' in which he highlights the psychological secrets of magicians and how people can use these secrets in their everyday lives. The book has been translated into seven languages, including Turkish, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, and Indonesian. Cohen holds the rank of MIMC (Member of the Inner Magic Circle) with Gold Star, awarded by the Magic Circle in London. Cohen regularly presents his ''Chamber Magic'' show at the homes and events of wealthy individuals, with notable hosts including Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, Barry Diller, Martha Stewart, Jack Welch, Michael Eisner, Stephen Sondheim, André Previn, Anne-Sophie Mutter, the Queen of Morocco and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.〔〔 Cohen starred in, and as a co-executive, produced ''Lost Magic Decoded'', a two-hour documentary that premiered on the History Channel on October 18, 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Cohen (magician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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