Ron Edwards - serioius announcer, characters, many accents

serioius announcer, characters, many accents

• Ron Edwards is registered with Voice123 since Mar 31, 2009.
• Ron Edwards started his/her voice over career in 1973.
• Currently Ron Edwards is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

I have an extremely wide range of timbre, pitch and expression. I have always been able to reproduce any accent except Oklahoma twang, and have actually performed in Spanish, French, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Italian. My imitative abilities extend to song. I once mad a rehearsal tape for myself of all the characters in all the dialogues of the Mikado which fooled my friends into thinking I had hired a cast.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

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

• English - North American
• German

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

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for ACTRA (Canada) signatories

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for British Equity signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

• Jobs for Union des Artistes (Canada) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• 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

New York, New York, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Scary German Nazi, Funny German winemaker, Gay German punk, Austrian as separate from German, Debonaire French, Sexy French, Sleazy French, French Canadian, Irate Italian, Playful Italian, Old Italian Bocce player, Italian tenor, Neopolitan dialect, Scottish macho pickup guy, Scottish miser, Scottish hooligan, Irish charmer, Irish thug, Irish leprechaugn, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Castillian, Mexican (real Mexican travel guide, Mexican bandito, Taco Bell dog), Spanish TV announcer, Swedish viking, Swedish dumb hiker, English uppah uppah, Cockney, Old English Safari hunter, Manchester, Liverpool (who knows how the Welsh sound?), Yiddish yenta, old Yiddish patriarch, George Jessel caricature (is that redundant?), Japanese, (only funny) Indian, Russian, Lousiana (black or white) deep Southern(Farmer, Belle)Atlanta business man, Virginia tidewater, Texas farmer, Dallas businessman, Arkansas hillbilly, Georgia statesman, Bronxese, Brooklynese, Queensese, Manhattanese, Great Lakes, (Michigan is different than Rochester than Chicago), Kansas farmer, Oddly no Oklahoman, AM Radio hot-hype announcer.

Johnny Cash, Johnny Matthis, Carol Channing, Dudley Dooright, Quickdraw McGraw, Huckleberry Hound, Snaggletooth, Underdog, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd singing the Barber of Seville, Elvis Presley singin Hebrew liturgical music, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Muhammed Ali, Peter Lorre, James Mason, Jackie Mason, Lady Bird Johnson, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Truman Capote, John Wayne, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karlov, George Saunders, Nigel Bruce, Basil Rathbone, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx (only vocally), Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Sean Connery. Just ask.

My Voice Experience

As a child i started imitating Sid Caesar and found I could do his foreign doubletalk. As I went along I Found I was always able to reproduce any voice I heard. I was classically trained as an opera singer, and have sung operatic roles as a bass, baritone and tenor. My recording "A Blitzstein Cabaret" includes songsin both operatic and Broadway styles, and in Irish, Yiddish and Italian accents. Other recordings were as a classical tenor, 1: for Anthony Davis's opera X: the Life and Times of Malcomb X and 2: again as a tenor in the William Cullen Bryant Centennial Concert. For two years in college I was music of the campus radio station, for which I recorded many promos. With apologies, It has been to long to remember specifics, except my daily sign-off for which I used a technique of partially bringing the "false vocal folds" together, which produces the sound of Mercedes Mackambridghes demon voice from "The Omen." My only professional voiceover credit since then has been as a bass chorus section (with multi-tracking)done for a film about the Washington Monuments. Please bear with me as I prepare the files to post here that will convince you that if you need it, ask Ron Edwards.

My Training

I studied Italian, French, and German in college, and have been coached as a professional singer since then in Hebrew and Yiddish. I was Music Director of KMUW-FM for two years, where I recorded many types of characters and voices. One of the Media Arts courses there at Wichita State University assigned me, myself an undergraduate, a student trainee.

My Studio Equipment

As mentioned before, I'm building a presentation here, so really don't know what my production abilities are yet, but it will be I who write the clips that I post, I hope some one will notice my writing, too.

Additional Skills

Unknown - Click here to ask Ron Edwards

Payment Methods Accepted

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