We met in 2017, started dating, and almost immediately began building a Second Sight act. My background is close-up. I’ve been performing since I was 16, learning in noisy rooms where people skills matter as much as sleights. Marina brought musicianship, focus, and the kind of stage discipline you only get from years in other arts. We live in Dubai, so from the start we aimed to create something that could feel personal for a private crowd one night and still fill a big corporate stage the next. Second Sight became our shared language.
In early 2018 we posted a video online. David Penn saw it and reached out. He nudged us toward Britain’s Got Talent and, far more importantly, offered to consult. That began a relationship that has shaped everything we do. David has been our consultant for years now. He took a close-up magician and a musician and gave us a framework for stage. Bigger doesn’t mean louder; it means architecture, sightlines, camera literacy, and a story the audience recognizes themselves in. Somewhere in those early sessions the FISM idea took root. As Alex Ramon says, competition keeps you sharp. A clear target makes practice useful. Our act already needed hours every day—FISM gave those hours a direction.