A lot of us haven’t seen “Asia’s Got Talent,” the South East Asian version of one of the most popular TV shows in the world. That’s too bad, because as the name suggests, Asia does have a lot of amazing talent.
The winner of the 2017 battle was one of the strangest acts this show has ever seen. Most of the people reading this have probably never heard of “The Sacred Raina,” but after watching this clip, I’m sure a lot of you will want to follow this amazing, if a little strange, young player.
As soon as this very talented magician walked out on stage, the judges were shocked. The performer of one of the oldest forms of art known to man was wearing what looks like a very dark school uniform and carrying a very creepy doll. She didn’t say a word; instead, she dropped the doll and went right into her act. As she got closer to the judges, two of them got up and left right away because she was so scary and strange.
Marie Antoinette Riana Graharani, also known as “The Sacred Riana,” is an Indonesian magician and illusionist who is 26 years old. She first came to the public’s attention on the Indonesian TV show “The Next Mentalist” on the “Trans seven” channel, where she came in second place. She won the second season of “Asia’s Got Talent” with a very strange magic act. She doesn’t talk much during her shows, and when she does, her voice shakes and is hard to understand. When asked if she found it hard to be quiet, her manager said, “She is a quiet girl by nature, so it’s easy. She is not the type to talk a lot. Even after she won the show and was given a microphone, she didn’t say anything.
Videos of her shows on YouTube and Facebook have been seen more than 70 million times, which is amazing for an act that isn’t very well known outside of her own country. Her act is so strange that one day she will have to be famous. Riana, the older of her two children, has always been interested in magic. Her father was a magician, and ever since she was a little girl, “David Copperfield” was her hero. Riana has become an expert at “Telekinesis” thanks to the help of her father. She picked the name “The Sacred” because she has always thought that doing magic for some people was a holy thing.
When you watch the video below, you’ll become one of the 70 million people who have already seen this great, if very strange, professional magician who has a flair for the strange.