Ron Gilbert

I can read and annunciate Spanish. I can also produce a French accent, country, middle age, elderly, promotional or disc jockey voice. I try to immitate a Swedish accent, and do fairly well, as well as British. My voice can best be characterized musically with a strong similarity to Brook Benton (Rainy Night in Georgia), Lou Rawls, or Conway Twitty.

By the time I was in my twenties, (now 57!) not many days would go by before someone would aske me, "Have you done radio?" "Have you ever done commercials?" I was often compared to Barry White, the deceased R&B singer.So, I would respond by saying, "Who loves you baby," in a deep rich voice, and it would always draw laughter. So, several years ago, I was in a public speaking engagement promoting chemical dependency treatment services, and a guy at a Lion's Club breakfast walked up to me at the end of my speaking, and he says, "HI, I'm Brian and I'd like your voice." I said, yeah, and laughed slightly, not knowing his intention. he said,"No, I mean, I want your voice. I'm looking for a deep male voice for one of my clients." Within a week I was in his studio producing a commercial for Merced Community Medical Center. I was working for Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock CA at the time. A year or two later I was aksed to write and produce two radio commercial for Emanuel. At anyrate, I'm think, with a little luck and timing, perhaps my time has come. It's worth a shot. I am a licensed marriage and family therapist, with a master's degree in Counseling in Psychology. I am a tranor and presentor for our local mental health department. There are also local groups who have asked me to provide vocal back-up / harmony or bass to their muscial productions. i have also done some local theater, more of edu-tainment, with a local group known as The Wellness Warriors.