Jose Cruz

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• Jose Cruz is registered with Voice123 since Dec 13, 2007.
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Voice Description

Voice Talent:
Deep Foreshadowing (movie previews)
Warm/ Sentimental
Narrator
Cartoon
Announcer
Answering machines
Fun/ Sexy (for children's and adult commercials, as well as videog game and general commericials)
Aggressive

Can alter voice to mimic a large amount of different types of voices (except most female voices, but a good kick in the right spot might change that).

-All voice examples-

General voices:
Murder documentary/ narrator voice, Louis Armstrong "crunchy" voice as well as other variations of "crunchy" voices, Deep Movie preview voice,
Young adult "1985 Michael J. Fox" type voice,
Announcer voice "In the red corner.." 'Jonny Gomez' type voice,
Teenage voice,
Raspy voice (like i've been smoking for 20 years)
Can do voices assoiciated with sexual activity

Cartoon voices:
Exaggerated modern villian "Joker" or "Riddler" type voices,
Classic villian "Snidley Whiplash" type voices,
Monster/ Half-man half beast voices,
Deep lone wolf hero "Wolverine" type voices,
Exaggerated classic hero "Dudley Do-right" type voices,
Mysterious old man voices,
"Old prospector" type/ high-pitch geezer voices,
Exaggerated old-man voice,
Nasal sounding "Squidward" type voices,
Modern hero "Tom Cruise" type voices,
Boring "Ben Stein" type voices,
Nervous/Psychotic jittery voices,
Early 1900 Ganster voices,
Exaggerated rich-people voices

Singing voice:
Range- Barritone A to Alto G
Can mimic most singing voices (such as -but not limited to- Elvis, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong)

Dialect/Accents:
British
Spanish- also spoken language
German
Southern
New Yorker
Russian
Australian
Native American
Hip-hop/Gangsta'
Femenine male/stereotype homosexual
*novice Hindu, Oriental, Jewish, and Italian

Female voices:
Old hag/ ugly witch type voices,
deep femenine raspy smoker's voice
(mostly older women voices)

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

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

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

Unknown - Click here to ask Jose Cruz

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
• Adult content
• Songs
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

Unknown - Click here to ask Jose Cruz

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

Unknown - Click here to ask Jose Cruz

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

None

My Home Base

Kissimmee and Orlando, Florida, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Unknown - Click here to ask Jose Cruz

My Voice Experience

Experience:
All experience was learned at the following schools:
Gateway High school aka GHS
Osceola County School for the Arts aka OCSA
Parkway Middle school aka PMS

2 years of acting classes
Instructors: Clayton Guiltner, Aaron Guiltner (first year, GHS)
Valerie Grant, Patricia Clinton, Nina Cochran (second year, OCSA)
Studies (as far as voice acting)
Diction, Announciation, Projection, Inflection, Control, and Method acting, as well as other acting lessons and techniques assoiciated with "finding the motivation" and "speaking the speech" Also studied political and speech voices

1 year of TV Production class
Instructor: Tom Davis
Studies (as far as voice acting)
sound editing, voice recording, and camera audio extraction to cd audio conversion

Singing/ Musical Experience:
Involved with music since childhood
Parkway Middle School: 3 years of Music/Band and Chorus classes
Chorus Instructor- Anne Tylor
Band Instructors- Russel Weaver, Bill Henly (additional 3 years of highschool music instruction)

Projects/ Productions:

Radio commercial for "Galileo" by Bertolt Brect (Directed by Valerie Grant-OCSA)

Opening and Closing speech for original production of "Dots" (director Nina Cochran, OCSA)

Performed in musical production "Into the Woods" as 'Jack' (director Clayton Guiltner, musical instructor Aaron Guiltner, GHS)