Thomas Norbert Stanley Bunker-Whitney was born on February 8th, 1987, whilst his parents were living in sunny Barcelona, Spain. He was born with a deformity that couldn’t be dealt with properly in Spain becuase his mum's Spanish wasn't good enough to find out all the details, so had to travel back to england a few months later for treatment. 8 years, 5 operations, and a lot of therapy later, Norbi was left with one shorter (~1.5cm) and significantly weaker leg, and a lot of back troubles. This would prove to be a lot of trouble when it came to playing any sport or even walking any distance, and should definitely have ruled juggling out.

Norbi took a keen interest in magic at a young age. After seeing his older brother’s Marvin’s Magic set, Norbi begged his mum to buy him a set for Christmas. He, as any good magician, would practice for hours in front of a mirror, in hope of one day performing everything he had learned. He ended up performing a magic routine of about 15-20 minutes at a number of venues around the UK, including such festivals as ‘the Big Green Gathering’, ‘Buddha-Field’, ‘Lizard festival', and a private birthday show in one of the backstage areas of ‘Glastonbury Festival’. Norbi even performed a spot in a nightclub called ‘Grey area’ in Hackney, London. These all happened within the same year, and at the tender age of 7.

In June of 2000 Norbi was given a diabolo at the end of a festival and shown some of the very basic tricks. He would practice for hours a day, learning anything and everything he could from reading books, and even creating a number of his own tricks. Due to a lack of any other outside influence, Norbi’s progress soon stopped, and he almost completely gave up diabolo until mid 2001. Then, in late 2002 (Oct 15th to be precise), after about a year of seriously practising diabolo again and becoming quite envious of his juggling friends, Norbi spent over a week teaching himself the basic 3 ball cascade. After just 2 years of juggling, he was regularly performing up to 8 objects at once on stage.

From there on out, Norbi's career as a juggler, and performer, flourished. Over the next few years he placed in a number of competitions, and earned himself 4th place in the world at diabolo, 2 years running. Not only that, but Norbi also won a gold medal at his level, in the WJF World Juggling Championships, in Las Vegas. Since then, he has devoted his time less to sport-juggling, and more on his performance. Paying off, Norbi has performed his routines in venues across the globe, and is currently filling his summer with circus work. Norbi is currently studying at l'École de Cirque de Québec, in Canada...