Dynamo is the stage name of one of the most recent exponents of British magic, an Englishman who was born as Steven Frayne on the 17th of December, 1982 in the city of Bradford, in the northern part of England. Frayne did not have a very easy upbringing and he grew up in the Delph Hill Estate region of Bradford, which is one of the most deprived parts in the whole of northern England. His first tryst with magic came when he began to learn magic tricks from his grandfather who had learned the tricks during his time with the British army in the Second World War. Frayne further developed the tricks that he learnt from his grandfather during the trips that he took to New Orleans in the United States of America, which is one of the breeding grounds for street magicians and illusionists in the country.