Halfdan

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General Interests	"Most Christian artists don't perform extreme feats on America's Got Talent, most are not in Ripley's Believe It or Not or hold multiple Guinness World Records, most don't eat fire or swallow swords underwater in a tank of sharks, and most have not received the Ig Nobel prize at Harvard... But Dan Meyer is NOT your average Christian artist!"
Movie Interests	Facing the Giants, Flywheel, Shadowlands
Music Interests	Ceili Rain, Britt Nicole, Paul Says Hello, Jeremy Camp, Mike's Chair, Mark Heard, Jim Cole, Mercy Me, Ceili Mist, Kelly Willard
Interesting Quotes	"I grew up in a Christian family and made a decision to give my life over to the Lord when I was a teen. Because I grew up shy, it was awkward for me to witness to people." Dan explains. "God made each person unique with their own special gifts. Through performing, I get the opportunity to impact lives for Christ through my unique form of 'inner-tainment', and use my unique ministry to let audiences know it's ok to be unique and stand for what you believe in, whatever your calling is!" "My extreme ministry allows me to reach a wide audience and touch folks across a broad spectrum that other minstries might not be able to reach, from youth to yuppies, teens to seniors, Goth rockers to bikers, including those who might never step foot in a church." "I like to comfort the afflicted, as well as afflict the comfortable by performing REAL feats people think are impossible in order to prove how awesome God made the human body. I remind audiences that ALL things are possible with God, and I encourage folks to live life abundantly, with gusto... not just to sip life, but to GULP it!" "My hope is that what I do can inspire others to think beyond the obvious and challenge them to rise above their limitations, to dream bigger than they thought possible, and dare to do the impossible in their lives. My mission is to make a positive impact on the youth of today by being REAL, to inspire them to dream bigger than they thought possible, to create a vision for their lives, and to go out and achieve those dreams and DO the impossible in their lives by putting their hearts and minds in the right place... following the Lord!" "Just to see God using me, seeing people's faces when I perform, and knowing God is using me to impact lives is tremendously exciting to me!" -Dan Meyer
TV Interests	America's Got Talent, CNN, MTV, ESPN, Today Show, Discovery Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Times Channel, Discovery International, The Learning Channel, Documentary Channel, Travel Channel, USA Network, Food Network, CNN Headline News, CNN Health, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, FOX News, BBC, CBC, CTV, CMT, PBS, NPR, ET, WGN, Entertainment Tonight
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Favorite Books	Ted Dekker

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Relationship Status:	Married
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Hometown:	Originally Michigan City, IN, now Hartselle, AL
Political Views:	Conservative Christian
5 things I can't live without:	My Blackberry!
Height:	6'1"
Eye Color:	blue
Hair Color:	blonde
Build:	average

Professional Information

Graduate School:	Belmont University, Nashville, TN
College:	Waldorf Lutheran College, Forest City, IA
High School:	Rogers High School, Michigan City, IN
Ideal Job Description:	Traveling around the world performing impossible feats, sharing the love of God, and inspiring people to do the impossible in their lives... I'm blessed to already be doing it!
Work Contact Info:	an@swordswallow.com">Dan@swordswallow.com http://www.verticalministries.com http://www.cuttingedgeinnertainment.com
Career Interests:	I would like to perform on CBN, PTL, 700 Club, Daystar, be featured in Guidepost magazine, Christian Living, Charisma, and others. Contact me if you're interested!

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Birthday:	April 07
Location:	Hartselle, AL
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About Me

DAN MEYER is a unique Christian artist who specializes in the extremely dangerous and very narrow field of cutting edge innertainment - Sword Swallowing!

After working several years in the Christian music industry in Nashville, Stockholm, and London, Dan Meyer shifted his focus from the field of music to variety entertainment as circus clown, juggler, stilt-walker, fire-eater, and ultimately the most dangerous of all performance arts - Sword Swallower!

Being amazed while watching fire-eaters and sword swallowers, first at circus sideshows while growing up as a child in Indiana, and later witnessing Indian fakirs while serving as a missionary in India, Dan became passionate about learning the incredible feats himself.

Hearing from a sword swallower in 1998 that there were "less than a dozen sword swallowers left around the world" led Dan on his quest to locate as many of the surviving sword swallowers as possible while mastering the 4,000-year-old art. After three years of research, study, and daily practice, Dan taught himself to swallow solid steel swords while networking the remaining sword swallowers into the Sword Swallowers Association Int'l.

With less than a few dozen professional sword swallowers in the entire world out of a world population of 6.6 billion people makes Dan unique at being 1 out of 250 million! Of the few sword swallowers left in the world today, most just swallow a single small sword. But Dan is UNIQUE even among sword swallowers:

* Dan can swallow the wavy serpentine Flamberge sword
* He's one of the only people in the world who swallows a CURVED sword
* He's the ONLY person in the world who swallows a FLAMING sword while the BLADE is ON FIRE!
* He can have a sword WHIPPED out of his throat by a WHIP 6 feet away!
* He is the only person to swallow a 30" sword UNDERWATER in a tank of 80 SHARKS and STINGRAYS!
* He can swallow up to 8 SWORDS AT ONCE!
* He is the only sword swallower to be published in the British Medical Journal and to receive the prestigious Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine at Harvard!
* And Dan is the ONLY professing Christian sword swallower in the world!

Described as a �Christian David Copperfield� who combines real feats with a powerful message instead of just tricks and illusions, Dan eats fire and swallows solid steel swords, blades, sabers, bayonets and other objects from 15 to 30 inches in length and up to 8 swords at once.

As the only professing Christian sword swallower and fire-eater in the world, Dan uses his extreme form of innertainment in a motivational and inspirational program with a touch of comedy as a way of touching audiences in a profound way that other ministries might not be able to reach. �God made each person unique with their own unique gifts; I use my unique ministry to let audiences know it's ok to be unique and stand for what you believe in, whatever your calling is!"

A multiple Guinness World Record holder and featured Ripley's Believe It or Not performer, Dan is recognized as one of the top performing sword swallowers in the world. Dan has been featured on programs such as CNN, MTV, ESPN, Today Show, Discovery Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Times Channel, Discovery International, The Learning Channel, Documentary Channel, Travel Channel, USA Network, Food Network, CNN Headline News, CNN Health, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, FOX News, BBC, CBC, CTV, CMT, PBS, NPR, ET, WGN, USA Today, New York Times, London Times, British Medical Journal, Scientific American, Christian Activities, Christian Index, National Religious Newswire, Catholic National Reporter, and hundreds of other radio, TV, magazine, and newspaper interviews around the world.

Dan has performed on national tour with Brooks and Dunn's Neon Circus, on international tour with the Celtic Christian pop/rock band Ceili Rain, at Ripley�s Believe It or Not attractions, colleges, universities, science and medical events, corporate and church youth events, Upward Unlimited Awards programs and other events in 10 countries around the world.

Despite a close call resulting in a nearly deadly injury while swallowing 5 swords at once, Dan continues to inspire audiences with incredible feats. �I enjoy performing REAL feats that people think are impossible to prove how awesome God made the human body,� Dan explains. To prove his point, Dan swallowed a 30 inch sword while submerged 20 feet underwater in a tank of 80 live sharks and stingrays for Ripley�s Believe It or Not, a feat witnessed by over 25 million viewers on over 400 TV stations around the world.

As Director of the Sword Swallowers Association Int'l, a passionate advocate for preserving the ancient art of sword swallowing, and co-author of a year-long medical study on sword swallowing published in the prestigious British Medical Journal that won him the Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine, Dan is widely recognized as the foremost authority in the world on the ancient art of sword swallowing.