Boet Schouwink - Very low, commanding, severe, friendly, trustworth

Very low, commanding, severe, friendly, trustworth

• Boet Schouwink is registered with Voice123 since Dec 13, 2008.
• Boet Schouwink started his/her voice over career in 1988.
• Currently Boet Schouwink is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 5

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Voice Description

My voice can best be characterized as 'extremely flexible'.
I, and a lot of other people as well, find it hard to characterize 'my' voice as there's so many of them.
I can sound warm and deep, commanding, black/funky and soulful, dependable, vulnerable, cheerful, enthusiastic, whatever.
I know lots of people actually describe themselves as such,
but I guess there's something 'wrong' with me that actually enables me to sound the way I do. I have no explanation for it, except that I was raised in Africa and was around black people most of my childhood. I picked up English in a multitude of accents and apparently have very flexible vocal chords along with 'absolute hearing'. Some say I'm the only guy worthy of rapping 'Follow the Leader' by Rakim without slipping, sounding EXACTLY like the real guy.
Whenever I pick a role, I can stick to it for hours without stopping, adapting even a specific sense of humour, emotions, anything particular about the character I'm impersonating.
The depth of my voice is about twice my real age, 43;), and I recently stopped smoking to stop it from dropping another octave.
However I can easily change to, say, a 20 year-old.

One of my heroes is Eddy Murphy, at a Summerjob in 1984 in Maine I managed to learn an entire tape by heart and cracked everyone up doing my Eddy stuff at the campfire.
Even back then people urged me to go on Saturday Night Live, but I guess I didn't have the guts to actually send a tape.
Instead I went back to Holland and became the most-heard voice-over ever on National Radio and Television, stretching my career far beyond the usual shelf-life of 3 years (before people get fed up with a specific 'sound').
I've been doing this now for the last 18 years, and I guess it's about time to spread my wings and start building a career in English Voice-Overs.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:

• Dutch
• English - British
• English - North American

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Songs
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for ACTRA (Canada) signatories

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for British Equity signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

• Jobs for Union des Artistes (Canada) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I have ISDN in my studio
• I can record and then deliver the audio files via Email
• I can record and then upload the audio files via FTP

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I offer copywriting services
• I offer translation services
• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer voice direction services
• I offer radio ad production services

My Home Base

Antwerp, Belgium

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Accents:

Black (Jive, Bluesy, Jazzy, Preacher, Rapper)
Jiddish, Redneck/Hillbilly, Ozzy, Cockney, British Stiff Upperlip, Rasta, Scottish, Irish, French-English, German-English, Russian-English)

Impersonations:
Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Soul Singer, Frank Sinatra...

My Voice Experience

I've been the reference for Voice-Overs in the Netherlands for about 8 years now, holding the all-time record for longevity and number of National Campaigns (Once witnessed: 5 of 6 commercial in block were done by me).
I've done some English-speaking Commercial Campaigns (Mentos, Sony), some French-Speaking (Nickelodeon Belgium), a whole bunch of Corporate presentations in English for worldwide use (TNT,Philips, Coca-Cola, MTV).
Some Singing work as a Soul singer, a Calypso singer, Crooner, Rapper.

Just Google my name.

My Training

Studied Mechanical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Started doing stand-up comedy while in University.
Got occasional jobs before graduating, became a full-time voice-over right after.

I've allways figured no-one could teach me anything about voice-overs, so I never bothered doing any training.
I train on the job, perfectioning impersonations (I'm also acclaimed as the #1 impersonator in the Netherlands), trying out different Mic techniques etc.

Recently I've started writing copy. Also do a lot of editing on English translations.

My Studio Equipment

BRAUNER MILLENIUM CONDENSER MIC (2)

DBX 286 MIC PRE / SPL TRACK ONE MIC PRE

MICROTRACK (MOBILE SETUP WITH DBX PRE)

PROTOOLS MBOX

PROTOOLS SOFTWARE / COOL EDIT PRO

APT 286 ISDN-LINK