SunSpots Zak Miller voices full-time as voiceover talent

SunSpots Productions Zak Miller becomes full-time Voiceover Talent

As one of the founding members and manager of SunSpots Productions Orlando studios team, Zak Miller has decided to “put out his shingle” and work as a full-time voiceover announcer. Zak’s been working behind the console and mic for over 12 years with SunSpots and produced over 7,500 sessions and personally voiced over 1,700 radio and tv commercials and narrations. You can hear Zak Miller’s voices at SunSpots: http://www.sunspotsproductions.com/Voice_talent_detail.cfm?id=59

Zak got his start behind the mic in 1992 on the air at WCHZ in Augusta, Georgia. Zak says, “That opened the part of my brain that told me I love to voice! I produced my first spot for a horse show at a South Carolina mall. I had no sound effects so I had to foley everything!” From that radio station in Georgia, Zak worked his way to WDIZ in Orlando, Florida working middays as a DJ. Eventually he moved off the air to the Creative Service Department of Clear Channel Broadcasting in Orlando. While there, he voiced for the Orlando Predators Arena Football Team, Solar Bears Hockey Team and various concerts for the Orlando area.

It was Zak’s work on the radio that attracted SunSpots Productions attention. He joined the SunSpots team in 1997, soon after the company opened its Orlando location. Within a few years he became manager of the Florida studio. Zak describes his early years at SunSpots Productions, “Being on the ground floor of SunSpots was a very exciting time. To be a part of the growth and formation of a company like SunSpots with the ideals and approaches to the industry will always remain a special memory. To be able to raise the industry standards and what is and was expected from a production studio and talent agent was a great feeling. SunSpots has changed the way I approach life, business and relationships.” One of his favorite memories of SunSpots was, “sitting in the lobby eating Chinese food and thinking of names for the company. I’ll never forget the time that Janet (SunSpots Co-Owner), fellow voice talent Jaz Adams and I spent the day piling sand around the building to keep “Lake Cassidy” from flooding into the studios!”

Zak’s enthusiastic about his career change to jump to the other side of the recording console as a full-time voice talent. “I am very excited about voicing full-time. How come? When you’re able to do something in life that feeds your passion and creativity, your life becomes more fulfilled…My favorite spot to voice is a spot that tells a story. I love to be able to bring a person into a scene with my voice and my inflection.”

The entire SunSpots Productions staff wishes Zak the very best in his new voice talent career. To hear Zak Miller’s voices (he does a variety of voiceover styles) and his voiceover demos please contact SunSpots Productions at 800-355-SPOTS or online at www.SunSpotsProductions.com. You can also schedule Zak online through SunSpots web site.

SunSpots Productions is a global supplier of voice talent and creative audio production and is a licensed talent agent in the State of Florida. SunSpots creates award winning audio from their studios near Asheville, North Carolina and Orlando, Florida .

Voice Talent John Oliver Fights Behind The Mic

SunSpots voiceover talent John Oliver puts on the gloves and fights hard behind the mic in this video produced by our friends at Williamson/Evans studios.

You can hear more of John at SunSpots Productions site. Here’s John Oliver’s voice talent demo.

Choose SunSpots when you’re looking for pro voice talent like John and creative audio production. Contact SunSpots Productions with studios near Asheville, NC and Orlando, FL at 800-355-SPOTS.

Man of a Thousand Voices Fred Travalena

If you’re old enough to remember watching Johnny Carsonat night or Merv Griffin on tv in the afternoon, you remember watching Fred Travalena.

He was always fun to watch and the definition of a true voiceover talent. I loved impressionists like him and guys like Frank Gorshin. Fred was all over TV in the 70′s and 80′s with his own specials and popping up on other’s shows too.
Here’s a clip of him on the Donnie and Marie show from 1977:

Another clip from the latest version of the Donnie and Marie show in 1999. In this clip Fred tells them how he does looping and how he replaced Deniro and Pesci in Casino. 

Here’s Fred Travalena on Letterman during Impressionist Week:

And one more of Fred appearing on Merv Griffin’s show:

Fred was born in ‘da Bronx and died after fighting cancer for many years. He was 66 years old. Fred Travalena’s website.