About me…I was classically trained in vocal music from the age of ten onward.
I am lucky enough to have a natural singing voice and super supportive mom. This took me to college on a scholarship as well as lots of musical theatre productions. After college, I met my friend, Jon Ballard—a popular local radio personality. We got along famously and began performing and recording comedy sketches and commercial parodies for Seattle radio. These included such gems as “Dominatrix Pizza,” “Geriatric Park,” and a very special “Courtney Love Christmas Album.”
My next big voiceover job was for (forgive me) Hooters. I sang about crab legs to the tune of Gershwin’s “Summertime.” (It’s an odd world where this is considered progress from singing opera.)
So it turns out I am good at this—and I like being good at it.
I have often been hired to voice messages and prompts for telephone systems of employers and friends to make their businesses sound more professional.
And here we are.
At the same time, as any struggling musician does, I took jobs to make rent. Some were great (Seattle Children’s Theatre), some not (singing cocktail waitress on a cruise ship).
In more “grown up” jobs I learned about writing, creating marketing materials, and social media. I became an expert on planning events with wafer-thin budgets.
I learned what I love to do, what I tolerate doing, and what tasks I will flat-out never do again (a horrid receptionist gig where Phil Collins was played on a loop all day comes to mind).
I have been told so many times that I should run my own business. But what would it be???
And, again, here we are.
One Voice VA pulls together the best skills I have.