Chris Kelley

Voice Description

Destinctive "guys" voice with range. Eighteen years as a professional ........tv campaigns that have covered toothbrushes, laundry detergent,
computers, cosmetics, major soft drinks pharmacuticals, and more. Live announcing at awards shows and concerts. Voice with edge when called for...soft and sexy when needed. Some tv spots andScratch experience in the movie trailer department, young and hip or serious and intelligent for narrations. Can sell any marketing idea for any company, promote network lineups, handle affiliate news announcing, radio station liners, big announcer or cool and hip " talker".....flat and detatched....personal and intimate. Been directed by the best and know how to serve my buyers.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male

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

• English - North American

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Audiobooks
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Adult content
• Songs
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

• AFTRA (US)

• SAG (US)

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
• I can record and then deliver the files by regular mail

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

None

My Home Base

Sharon CT, Connecticut, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

british rocker, boston blue color, new york cabbie...oh no that's not english, tough guys, monster truck guys, southwest cowboy style,

My Voice Experience

TV Campaigns and spots include:

Fruit of the Loom
Gillette
Gain
Packard Bell
Maalox
Remington
Colgate
Dunn & Bradstreet
Pepsi
Pizza Hut
and more

Promo and Cable

Studio Voice for ESPN (since1999)
Original X-Games Announcer (first 4 Summer & 2 Winter Games)
Fox Sports (2006 MLB Playoffs & World Series promos)
Discovery Channel (Monster Garage, American Chopper Extreme Engineering, line-ups, intersticials and more 1994-2004)
Comedy Central (line-ups and promos 2000-2002)
CNN (Morming Edition promos....Bird Flu w/ Sanja Gupta campaign 2006 and more)
AMC (movie promos 200-02004)
HBO (Whitney Houston SAfrica Campaign and various promos)
VH1 (announcer 1993-1995) (presently promoting Hogan Knows Best and other Celebreality stuff)
Outdoor Network, USA, etc.......

Live Announcing

The first VH1 Honors (featuring for the first time The Artist Formerly Know As.....)

4 ESPY Awards at Radio City NYC(1997-200)

Billboard Music Awards Live from the Beacon Theatre in NYC 1998

Sheryl Crow's Central Park in Blue 1999

Narrations

Include Military Channel's Worlds Most Dangerous Aircraft

Affiliate work includes presently KPNZ Utah
and regular stand in for NBC 4 New York.
Past work includes NBC 11 Atlanta, NBC4 San Antonio and others as well as seasonal sweeps work with various News stations around the country

My Training

I never studied to become a voice-over...i was lucky ....i fell into it... at what proved to be the tail-end of my singing career. Thank goodness the guitarist broke a string at a show.. 1989 in New York City and i was forced to tell a joke, keeping the audience engaged while equiptment problems were being remedied. Later during our set break, a voice over agent bravely waded throught the crowd in the dressing room to hand me his card and ask me if i ever thought of voice-overs ........i wasn't really sure what he was talking about....but a month later i finally had a day job that put me in front of a microphone (comfortably) and actually paid me....unlike the music business.....LOL

My Studio Equipment

Unknown - Click here to ask Chris Kelley

Additional Skills

i have always prided myself on understanding just what purpose i am serving when i am picked to voice a commercial, a promo, a narration, etc.......and the key word is service.........i won't leave the booth until the buyer is completely satisfied that their idea and intentions are captured on tape...or how ever they record it these days......i suppose digitally into a computer.........but most of all I am in the service business and of course strive for excellence and aim to please.

Payment Methods Accepted

• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in my local currency

Contact Information

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