Darrell Lavigne

Southern (African-American, New Orleans, Country type voices),High German accents, (Werner Kemplerer,Otto Preminger), British (James Bond, Paul McCartney,Latino (Ricardo Montalban, Cheech Marin), Some Irish type dialect such as 'Scotty" of Star Trek.

I became interested in voice overs back in the 1990's. I started doing imitations of friends I knew and they were amazed. I realized I had a good ear for picking up on certain vocal characteristics. Since I was already a musician and composer, I was tapped to do some local commercials, both for radio and television. I did the music for an RTA radio spot highlighting the rollout of the new streetcars in New Orleans. I also did the music for a local law firm's TV commercial running late night after the news. It became clear that I could really put my dialect and speaking skills together with music I had been doing for other peoples projects and create 30 and 60 second spots. I have organized and taken inventory of my skills and now I feel I'm ready to put all my experiences to use. I don't presently possess any communication degrees, but I have researched the voice over business. I have some music composition and performance experience and attended some communication classes while at Xavier University (New Orleans). I am presently pursuing a History Degree online and will be graduating Fall 2009. I feel that a strong background in History as well as world travel as a musician has exposed me to global awareness and knowledge, plus a wealth of voice over material. Apple PowerMac G4 Computer: 250 GB Hard Drive Apple Logic Pro 7 DAW software: For pre-production, music composition, sound effects and some mixing. Propellerhead Reason 4: For music composition, sound effects Make Music Finale 2007 software: For music scoring Neumann TLM 103 microphone MXL microphone Yamaha Motif ES-7 Synthesizer: For music and effects Yamaha S03 Synthesizer: For music and effects I am very easy to work with. It is for this reason why I receive a lot of calls and recommendations from numerous musicians of all genres. I'm not afraid to work hard to get the job done right. I will give suggestions when asked, but the client is always King or Queen.