Steven Collazo

Black African American accents; Authorative and deep as per James Earl Jones, Generic as per Denzel Washington, Samuel L Jackson or Will Smith, Hip-Hop or street per Ice T or Ice Cube, East coast FM DJ's like the late Frankie Crocker, old school AM DJ's, deep voiced & deep fried(yet proper speaking) Black Southerners (as in the film "The Green Mile"), or transplanted second generation southerners living in northern cities (the basis of most US inner-city accents), effeminate gay black male, generic Nuyo-ricans (New york born Puerto Ricans who speak "Spanglish" on the order of Rosie Perez or Al Pacino in Scarface and Carlito's Way), generic West Indians(per the movie "Cool Runnings" about the Jamaican bobsled team), Italian American (think Goodfellaz or Sopranos), accent neutral East coast American, deep fried New York accent (read Noo Yawk Axent; a bit Yiddish-like with Irish undertones flavoured in Italian overtones and Black American expressionism).

I've owned a successful recording studio and music production company (Dumb Yank Productions) in the UK since 1996. Have extensive experience in recording and using my voice; I'm also a gigging musician, composer, singer and entertainer here in Britain. Done a good deal of acting in the States before I came here to live, so the combination of those talents and skills naturally led me into voice overs through clients(bands,companies, corporations and others) who recorded in my studio and constantly asked if I'd add my voice to their projects. Completely self-taught in the recording and performing arts and despite my youthfulness, have decades of experience. Use several computer based programs for most of my recording and processing needs, including Logic Audio, Pro-Tools, Wave-Pad, Mix-Pad, and Vox Studio. Software aside, I'm still very partial to hardware gear for more creative and intuitive recording projects; Neumann, AKG, and Rode microphones for different types of vocal recording (Singing and Speech), TC Electronics' Finalizer for mastering to CD, MD, or Computer, Several hardware sound modules for music production and film textures, A Soundcraft Ghost mixing desk with 32x32x8x2 channels and loads more stuff, too much and too boring to list here :) All my skills are relevant and related: Music arranger, composer, producer and musical director. Actor, live entertainer, lead and background vocalist, keyboard soloist. Recording engineer and system maintenence of my computers. Lyric, promotion, marketing and script writer. Chief cook, Bottle washer and toilet cleaner :D