Characterization!!

  You can bet that I was delighted when I won an audition last week for a characterization (impersonation) of a historic personality. Guess who? Well let me tell you--Martin Luther King! Out of approximately thirty auditions, mine was preferred by the client.

  Naturally I'm pleased. I performed the line given me and an additional one they requested. I was honored to be the talent whose voice will be representing King in the museum for some years to come I suspect.

  This blog is supposed to offer some learning opportunity with each post so what is this weeks lesson? I guess it is to keep on trying and never let up. If it is your goal to work successfully in voiceovers, you must never quit. I attribute my success, such as it is, to my persistence and my never say die perspective.

  I win very few auditions. Not because I'm appreciatively less talented than my peers but because that is the nature of this business. One must persist. Simply continue to try, plug along, don't be dissuaded by infrequency of selection. Just continue to throw your hat in the ring along with the others. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then.

  By the way, I did a very respectable impersonation of Dr King.

  I'll keep in touch and keep you abreast of my voiceover exploits. Until next time..