Lina del Roble

Voice Description

Multilingual expert. My voice skills range from a
professional, journalistic or corporate delivery & tonality to anything in between, including playful, over-the-top, authoritative, commercial, interpretive and story-teller.

My voice can be straightforward and professional, (i.e. knowledgeable), warm and kind, deep and pensive, serious, silly, youthful, musical and adventurous.

SPECIALTY: Reading anything that tells a story and copy-heavy texts. Can interpret and deliver smooth narration for historical, literary, medical, scientific, legal and other kinds of texts involving difficult-to-pronounce words and names.

I have provided voice-over services for TV documentary programs, news, educational videos on health, science, medical procedures & nutrition, children's library/literacy programs and commercial radio (predominantly Latino/Hispanic/Brazilian markets).

I speak five languages fluently. I can "fool" anyone with a perfect English accent (upper class & cockney), American Southern, Yankee and English with Hispanic & French accents. I can also do a nice Caribbean dialect (i.e "da islands, y'know!"... Barbados, Trinidad, Jamaica, etc.)

I can speak Spanish with a Mexican, Castilian or Caribbean (Puerto Rican or Cuban) accent.

I speak beautiful Brazilian Portuguese as well as French & Italian. I interpret scripts creatively and have over 20 years experience both receiving and providing audio direction.

Additionally, I've been singing for many years. My repertoire includes jazz, Brazilian & Latin American folkloric music, children's music and classic standards among other genres.

SUBJECT Areas:
Advertising, Aerospace, Agriculture, Anatomy, Animal Sciences, Animation, Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Banking and Financial, Biology (all forms), Botany, Broadcast Journalism, Business, Children's books, Computer and Information Sciences,Criminology, Culinary Arts, Education, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Science, Ethnic and Cultural Studies, Games and Songs, Textile and Weaving, Film and Cinema Studies, Food Sciences, Forensic Science, Forestry, Genealogy/Family History Research, Genetics, Geography, Gerontology, Health, Humanities, Law and Legal, Latino Issues, Linguistics, Literature, Medicine, Music, Nursing, Pharmaceutical, Philosophy, Photography, Radio and Television Broadcasting, Social Justice Issues, Sociology, Sports and Fitness, Theatre, Tourism and Travel, Visual and Performing Arts, Women's Studies, Zoology.


V.O. CREDITS

• Pereira O'Dell - KIVA - Promo video
• National Geographic - Documentary
• Dockyard Media - Documentary
• Quantia Communications - Bilingual VOs for mobile
apps
• Institute for the Future (Palo Alto)- Conference
presentation
• Pam Hogan Productions - Prisoner re-entry training
videos
• INIFAP (Mexico)- Bilingual video narrations
• TOA Technologies - Corporate
• EVEO (Conbriza)- Pharmaceutical marketing VOs
• Great Schools, Inc. - Bilingual characters for
educational lessons
• California Science Center - Bilingual VOs for
permanent ecology exhibits
• Contadores de Estorias - Storyteller - Portuguese
• Cord Blood Registry, San Mateo, CA - IVR VOs
• Delta Dental - Bilingual VOs - E-learning on website
• Endangered Threads - Bilingual VOs for 2 documentaries
• Red & White Fleet (Bay cruises - San Francisco,
Spanish, Portuguese)
• Topcon Technologies - Portuguese VOs - Industrial
marketing videos
• AT&T (Teens & Families)- Bilingual marketing videos
• Actelion Pharmaceuticals (Ventavis) Patient info videos
• BarZ Adventures - Museum audio tours
• PG&E - Webisode VOs
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Frida Kahlo audio
tour)
• Philadelphia Museum of Art (Audio Tour)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art - "Etruscan & Hellenistic
Galleries - Audio Director • Spanish, French, Italian
• Network for a Healthy California (CPNS/ California
Dept. of Health Services)

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Teenage Girl
• Young Adult Female
• Middle Age Female

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

• English - British
• English - North American
• English - Other
• Italian
• Portuguese - Brazilian
• Spanish - Mexican

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 Source Connect 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

Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, California, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Aristocratic, i.e. Upper class British
Cockney
Straightforward generic American English
Southern American
English with East Coast accent
English with Spanish accent
English with a Mediterranean accent
English with French accent
Spanish with Caribbean accent
Spanish with Castilian accent
"Little people voices" for animated characters

My Voice Experience

I have a lifetime of experience using my voice communicating as a nationally syndicated TV journalist for Univisión, Latin Tempo (Washington, D.C.) KWEX-TV (San Antonio, TX), radio host, actress, singer, teacher, presenter, story-teller, commercial voice-over talent, documentary narrator and character actress as well as spokesperson for industrials & patient awareness training videos.

I have used my vocal skills for news reports & interviews, human interest stories, training videos, advertising & promotions, social marketing campaigns, children's classes & programs, museum and performing arts workshops & much more.

My Training

VOICE-OVER TRAINING (2007-2012):

June 2012 - VOICE INTERNATIONAL, L.A. - Training, workshops, networking & more with some of the best VO experts in the country.

January 2011 - Pat Fraley, Hillary Huber - Billion $$ Read Audio Book event, San Francisco

Fall 2010 - Susan McCollum, Susan & Friends commercial read workshop, Bay Area

2010 - Numerous webinars & teleconferences through James Alburger & Penny Abshire

VOICE 2010 International Conference, June 2-5, 2010, Los Angeles

2007 - Susan Berkely, The Great Voice Company, Inc. - Premium member



SINGING:

2010-ongoing - Caracunde Ensemble under the direction
of David Pinto (Jazz and Afro-Latin repertoires)

November 2008 - present: Member of Aswat (Zawaya) Bay Area, California

2007-2010: Ongoing voice training (singing classes) with David Pinto, Marcos Silva and María Marquez at the Berkeley School of Jazz, Berkeley, California.


Founded Canto Caribe Brasil music & dance - 1989-2004
(Led workshops & performed for numerous cultural organizations & events: San Antonio Museum of Art, Witte Museum, Instituto Cultural Mexicano, S.A. Dept of Arts & Cultural Affairs, S.A. Independent School District, Imagination Celebration & numerous others)

Artist-in-Education (Texas Commission on the Arts) 15 years statewide advocacy & instruction

Numerous vocal & dance workshops @ The Carver Cultural Arts Center, S.A. Texas, including Sweet Honey in the Rock, Black Umfolosi, Dance Brazil & many others

Instituto Cultural Mexicano with award-winning Mexican playwright & director Felipe Santander (3 theatrical productions)

Los Actores de San Antonio - Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center - Member (1987-1995): 6 plays & 2 TENAZ International Theatre Festivals

Spanish International Network, National Council of La Raza, Hispanic Telecommunications Network, KWEX-TV - On-Camera host, reporter, producer

Radio announcer - Austin (KUT-FM "Horizontes" & San Antonio, Texas ("La Romántica")

Audition workshops with Liz Keigley - Austin, Texas

Austin Theatre Workshop with British actors Barrie Ingham & Vernon Morris - "TEXANA"

First training was in Mexico City (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes & Academia de la Danza Mexicana), including theatre, choir and dance.

My Studio Equipment

- M-Audio Fast Track Pro USB Audio Interface

- Rode NT1A Studio Condenser Microphone

- Audacity Recording & Editing software

Additional Skills

I'm a seasoned wordsmith & translator (specialty English to Spanish & vice-versa) and expert multilingual voice talent.

Presently: Consultant (Copywriting & voice-over services)

June 2008 - January 2009: Audio direction & voice-over services for Elanex, Ed Bogas Productions, Endangered Threads and BarZ Adventures.

September 2007 - June 2008: Senior copywriter & Associate Producer @ Headquarters Advertising, San Francisco, CA. Clients: United Health Group, PG&E, Comcast, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Giants of San Francisco, Language Line

2006-2008: Independent consultant (audio director, voice talent & copywriter) specializing in Hispanic media & communications. Clients include Antenna Audio, Intercultura Multilingual Media, Independent Adoption Agency, Elanex, Topcon, California Dept. of Health, Modem Media, amongst others.


From 2000-2006: Senior Copywriter, The Cartel Group (San Antonio, Tx.) & The Bravo Group (San Francisco, Ca.), specializing in Hispanic TV, radio, Out-of-Home, online, interactive & Direct Marketing campaigns.

My experience includes countless scratch-tracks for client presentations as well as radio direction. I directed renowned actor Héctor Elizondo for the Hispanic Chevron radio campaigns (2004-2006).

My dream is to take my vocal and linguistic skills to newer heights and to collaborate with outstanding creative teams, producers, directors and studios to create engaging, entertaining and informative (educational) audio work.

Payment Methods Accepted

• PayPal
• Credit cards
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in my local currency
• Wire transfers

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