Brian Manlove - Character specialist, baritone, good at accents

Character specialist, baritone, good at accents

• Brian Manlove is registered with Voice123 since Dec 29, 2008.
• Brian Manlove started his/her voice over career in 1990.
• Currently Brian Manlove is a Standard subscriber.
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Voice Description

Classical trained professional vocalist, bass-baritone, I can speak with a very smooth low pitch or in a more excited fashion with rising inflections to upper baritone range.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

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

• 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
• Audiobooks
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Songs
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• 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
• I can record and then deliver the files by regular mail

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I have a music library and can add music to any project

My Home Base

Keller, Texas, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

I can accurately read and pronounce English, Italian, German, French, etc. I am also very good at "foreign accented English." Character voices include Walter Brennan, W.C. Fields, Howard Cosell, and I am always willing to try more!

My Voice Experience

I currently do radio show introductions for a weekly broadcast of sermons from Living Word Lutheran Church in Grapevine, TX. (FM 100.7) These are also available as podcasts at ITunes.

I have performed Musical, Opera and Oratorio solo work for over 20 years, including past performances with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Ex Machina Baroque Opera Theater. I was a featured soloist for a segment called "Opera on the Farm" for CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt in 1993. Musical roles have included Mikado in "The Mikado", Ali Ben Ali in "The Desert Song."

I also play a very decent guitar, flatpick style, can sing and play blues, folk, bluegrass.

I have been told that I should be doing voice-over work by so many people - I want to respond "I DO!!"

My Training

Professional singing positions with the following musical organizations:
Concentus Musicus Minnesota (St.Paul, MN)
The Minnesota Chorale (St.Paul MN)
The Plymouth Music Series (Mpls. MN)
Cathedral Church of St. Mark (Mpls. MN)
Ex Machina Baroque Opera Theater (St.Paul MN)
The Minnesota Opera Company (Mpls. MN)
The Bloomington Civic Orchestra (Bloomington MN)
The Rochester Orchestra (Rochester MN)
The Wayzata Symphony & Chorus (Wayzata, MN)

Studied voice & diction with Emma Small, Mpls.MN 1991-1999

Attended University of MN School of Music.

Languages studied:
French, Italian, German, Czech

Instruments studied: Piano, classical guitar, steel-string acoustic guitar, Baroque recorders.

Prior experience as DJ for US Navy, 1973 (Hon disch.)

My Studio Equipment

Oktava MK319 condenser mic
CAD GXL2400 condenser mic
Isolation booms
Presonus Inspire 1394 Audio Interface
Steinberg Cubase digital recording software
Steinberg WaveLab 6 editing software
Dell XPS / Windows Vista
DVD-DL Read/Write

Additional Skills

I was always the class clown. My first accent was German. I can do a tear-jerking Dieter (you may pet my monkey) and an awfully authentic Ole or Sven also. My Walter Brennan brings tears of laughter to anyone who knew his voice.

I am a very good reader with an extremely low error rate and no unwanted verbal pauses. I am also very good with more complex words/phrases, biblical word pronunciations, technical terminology, etc.

I am a rabid science fan, reader of biographies, theology, but I also ride and maintain my own Harley-Davidson Road King motorcycle. I can vary from stuffy Brit Snob to Red Green.

I am also a Senior Software Engineer, MCSD certified since 1998, and I have learned to hate computer programming.

My wife and I met each other when she was a waitress and I was a cook at Bernie's Jewish Delicatessen in St. Louis Park, MN.