Max Kaan was born in Glasgow, Scotland.  He is now permanently based in Johannesburg,  South Africa.   Max Kaan has been hypnotising people for over a decade, he first became active in hypnosis in 1979, since then Max has hypnotised thousands of people from all walks of life from all over the world.  

Max Kaan was trained by eminent hypnotist Arthur Riley and Robert Halpern and has studied hypnosis in the UK and the USA In 1986 Max became the British School of Hypnotists' youngest ever Grand Master Hypnotist (GMH), when he successfully fended off the challenges of some twenty other hypnotists.

 Max Kaan is a member of the following hypnotic organisations, 

• The British School of Hypnotists (Grand Master Hypnotist)
• The South African Association of Hypnotists (secretary 1995)
• The South African Institute of Hypnosis 
• The Eastern Cape School of Hypnosis (GMH)
• The South African Academy of Hypnosis (President)

Max Kaan was the first hypnotist ever to perform at Sun City's Superbowl to a capacity audience of over six thousand people, not content with that Max went on to create South African Hypnotic History by becoming the first ever Hypnotist to have his own TV Show on SABC 3.

"Nowhereland with Max Kaan".

Max is one of a handful of  hypnotists world wide to achieve this amazing feat.

Marvellous Max Kaan has put hypnotism on the map in South Africa.

Having performed his show in the UK, Europe and the USA Max is truly South Africa's international hypnotist, from the moment he takes center stage with all the aplomb of a stand up comedian to when the house eruptswith laughter from the antics of his subjects, Max's show is just one long round of laughs, laughs and more laughs.