JAMES TURNER - BARRITONE/BASS - JAMES TURNER at Voice123

BARRITONE/BASS

• JAMES TURNER is registered with Voice123 since Sep 11, 2007.
• JAMES TURNER started his/her voice over career in .
• Currently JAMES TURNER is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

I HAVE A BARRITONE/BASS VOICE THAT IS EXTREMELY WARM FOR NARRATIONS, FUN FOR COMMERCIALS, AND SMOOTH FOR VARIOUS PRESENTATIONS. I DO A VARIETY OF IMPERSONATIONS, INCLUDING SEVERAL U.S. PRESIDENTS, GEORGE BURNS, PETER FALK, HUMPHREY BOGART, JACKIE GLEASON AND JACKIE STEWART, AND OF COURSE ANDY ROONEY.
I CAN ONLY SPEAK A FEW WORDS OF SPANISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, AND SLANG. I KNOW A VARIETY OF ACCENTS USED BY PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES. AND I CAN SPEAK THE VOICES OF PEOPLE OF VARIOUS AGES.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Child
• Teenage Boy
• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

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

• English - Australian / NZ
• English - British
• English - North American

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Audiobooks
• Documentaries
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Songs
• Others (on-camera, informercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

Unknown - Click here to ask JAMES TURNER

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I have Phone Patch in my studio

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

None

My Home Base

KALISPELL, NORTHWEST MONTANA, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Unknown - Click here to ask JAMES TURNER

My Voice Experience

I WAS IN A VARIETY OF PLAYS IN BOTH GRADE SCHOOL, HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE, AND AFTERWARD. THESE INCLUDED VARIOUS CHRISTMANS PLAYS, M*A*S*H, AGATHA CHRISTIES' TEN LITTLE INDIANS, THE IMAGINARY INVALID, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, OUR TOWN, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, SHAKESPEARES' KING LEAR, AND MACBETH, AND A VARIETY OF MUSICALS TO INCLUDE OLIVER, ANNIE, A VARIETY OF INDEPENDENT PLAYS WRITTEN BY THE PLAYHOUSE MANAGER HERSELF, AND FINALLY I WAS IN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, WHERE I NOT ONLY WAS IN THE CAST, BUT I ALSO DID THE OPENING, VOICE-OVER NARRATION.
DURING MY LAST TWO YEARS OF COLLEGE I WAS A VOLUNTARY FM ANNOUNCER FOR THE ON-CAMPUS RADIO STATION. I READ VARIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THE AIR, AND EVERY HOUR, I WOULD ANNOUNCE THE RADIO STATION CALL LETTERS TO IDENTIFY THE STATION TO THE PUBLIC AND ONE OF THE MANY SPONSORS FROM AROUND TOWN THAT WAS HELPING THE STATION OUT FINANCIALLY.
I WAS ALSO AN AM DISC JOCKEY FOR ROUGHLY SIX MONTHS, FROM FEBRUARY UNTIL AUGUST OF 1983. I WORKED FOR SIX HOURS EVERY WEEK, FROM MIDNIGHT UNTIL 6 A.M. AT KPRQ, LATER KLAF AM 1230 IN MURRAY, UTAH. A SUBURB OF SALT LAKE CITY. WE PLAYED CONTEMPORARY ROCK MUSIC, AND THEN OLD TIME RADIO SHOWS AND COMEDY. AGAIN, I WOULD READ VARIOUS WRITTEN COMERCIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THE AIR, AND ANNOUNCED THE MUSIC THAT WAS PLAYING.
THEN IN FBRUARY UNTIL JUNE OF 1985, I WAS A FULL-TIME DISC JOCKEY AT KGEZ-AM IN KALISPELL, WHERE I WAS AIRING COUNTRY MUSIC, AN ALSO READING VARIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS, AND LOST AND FOUND ITEMS ON THE AIR.

My Training

I GRADUATED WITH A BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE FROM MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY IN BOZEMAN ON JUNE 12TH, 1982.
MY DEGREE WAS IN FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCTION, WHERE I RECEIVED TRAINING IN ANNOUNCING AND NARRATION, AND VARIOUS PRODUCTION ASPECTS IN MY OPTION OF TELEVISION PRODUCTION/BROADCASTING.
FOR ROUGHLY A YEAR, WHILE I WAS IN COLLEGE, I TOOK A UNIVERSITY CHORUS CLASS, WHERE ALL OF US SANG A VARIETY OF SONGS.
IN THE SUMMER OF 1981, I INTERNED AT A TELEVISION STATION IN HARDIN, MONTANA WHERE I DID A VARIETY OF PRODUCTION WORK, WHICH INCLUDED VARIOUS VOICE OVER NARRATIONS FOR A VARIETY OF COMMERCIALS.
IN SEPTEMBER OF 1985, I JOINED THE U.S. AIR FORCE, AND JOINED THE BASE CHAPEL CHOIR SINGING A VARIETY OF SONGS EVERY SUNDAY. I DID THIS FROM BASIC TRAINING RIGHT UP UNTIL I GOT OUT OF THE AIR FORCE IN JUNE OF 1995.
I HAVE ALSO PARTICIPATED IN CHURCH CHOIRS WITH THE VARIETY OF CHURCHES THAT I HAVE BELONGED TO FROM EARLY 1984 UNTIL THE PRESENT TIME. DURING WHICH, I LEARNED TO NOT ONLY READ MUSIC, TO A DEGREE, BUT ALSO WHERE TO EMPHASIZE CERTAIN DEGREES OF STRESS IN MY SINGING VOICE.

My Studio Equipment

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Additional Skills

I'M FAIRLY GOOD AT DOING A VARIETY OF ACCENTS. THE IMPERSONATIONS THAT I PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED ARE ONLY A FEW OF THE VARIETY THAT I CAN DO.
I AM MORE THAN HAPPY TO EXPLAIN ANY QUESTIONS MAY HAVE REGARDING ANY OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED ACHIEVEMENTS, AND QUALITIES THAT I HAVE . PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO ASK, OR CONTACT ME.
I LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING YOU IN ANY CAPACITY.
SINCERELY,

JAMES M. TURNER