John Rio

Spanish or Mexican Russian East Indian British, cockney, sophisticated Irish Drunk Clueless

In 1984 I created a character named Mr. Leonard. It became one of the longest running characters in radio. It was syndicated in several radio markets including: New York, Houston Dallas and Philadelphia. I also performed the character for "The Scott Shannon Top-30 Count Down" that was heard all over the world. Although I love creating characters and doing different accents, I recently did a voice over for a student film. They wanted to know if I could sound like the voice in the "Go Forth" campaign for Levi's. I was very pleased when they said they got just what they wanted. My training comes from starting in radio when I was 16 and working with some great people in radio and production and performing and recording 1000's of commercials, promos, comedy bits and VO's for more than 25 years. I use Adobe Audition for editing and have been a production director, so I do not have a problem adding music and fx to your project if need be. Most of the work I do is sent in mp3 or wave file formats via email.