Michael LaVoice

Various North American accents from the California to New york, the southern regions to the faster paced northern areas to an accent neutral style, as well as various accents from the British Isles such as proper, cockney, BBC announcer type, Scotsman, Welshman Buggs Bunny, Daffy duck, Foghorn Leghorn, the chicken hawk, Yosemite Sam, Marvin the Martian, K-9, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Borris, Rocky and Mugsy. Wile E. Coyote, Tennessee Tuxedo, Maxwell Smart, Inspector Gadget, Scooby Doo, Shaggy, Droopy Dog, Popeye, Elmo, Grover, Kermit the Frog, Swedish chef, Dr. Teeth, Animal, Rizzo the rat, Gonzo, Rowlf the Dog, the Count, Ernie, Master Splinter (both the Kevin Clash and Mako versions, a motley collection of news reporters, surfer dudes, rednecks, hillbillies, muscle headed heroes, their sidekicks and their villains. I can be sinister or heroic, average or a real comedic character, I can also narrate or read children's stories with a variety of voices for the various characters. I am a skilled mimic and can easily reproduce another person's vocal patterns, speech style, and very often even their voice after a short time listening to them.

In 1989 while working towards a radio and TV broadcasting degree that I somehow never managed to complete, I was given an opportunity to do jock work at WKYQ/WKYX in Paducah, KY. Here I did typical jock air work as well as voice overs for commercial spots, special projects and spent some time working with and filling in for the news staff, copy writing, condensing news stories into readable copy and doing live news broadcasts. After a brief stint in the US Army, I went back to broadcasting, this time as a media sales exec for WDXR Am and FM in Paducah, KY. I wrote and recorded spec spots, regular commercial spots, and provided voice overs for other ad sales personnel on their projects. voice work became more of a hobby for several years after that, writing and recording commercials for non-existent products, live shoutcasts of Mechwarrior League matches on MWL radio ( Internet cast play-by-play descriptions of actual league matches). After spending time with George LeDoux (the voice of Duncan Fisher in Microsoft's Mechwarrior: Mercenaries video game) in the MWL radio universe, I worked with him providing some additional police officer character voices for the Urban Empires video game. I also perform live readings of Children's books by Dr. Seuss, Brian Jaques "Redwall" series, and C.S. Lewis' Narnia stories at elementary school libraries and classrooms, and provide audio recordings of books for the visually impaired for their private, non-commercial use. As a child I was active in public speaking competitions and won State Grand Champion of the 4-H speech competition at the age of 11. I then became involved in community theater and did some promotional television spots and voice overs for 4-h and Market House Theater productions in Paducah, KY. I have performed in musicals and stage plays as characters and lead roles, made who's who in American music (High School edition), and was a member of several garage bands, one of which actually recorded a studio demo of two original songs. I also have extensive copy writing experience, as well as the scripting of novels and the novelization of scripts. Currently I use SoundForge Pro 10 and a Samson CO1U USB Mic on a souped up HP Pavilion HPE computer, and a self built "porta-a-booth" type sound proof box for the Mic.