New Voiceover Talent added to SunSpots web site

Please welcome our latest professional voice talent to join SunSpots Productions!

• Bobbin Beam
• Chuck Davis
• Alex Jasmin
• Kelly Klemolin
• Victor Pacheco (Spanish voiceover talent)
• Bob Souer
• Grace Taylor
• Amy Taylor
• Krysten Weber
• Martin Yap

Plus choose from hundreds of other voice talent for radio and tv commercials, web, industrials and more through SunSpots exclusive EZCast™ search engine. Find professional voice talent here.

With ISDN recording studio locations near Asheville, North Carolina and Orlando, Florida, SunSpots Productions provides voiceover talent and creative audio production for all media around the globe.

It's hot out! We need Fans!

Ok, maybe that's the wrong kind of fan. How about simply being our Facebook fan? For every new fan we get during August we'll donate an equal amount to Give Kids The World, an organization that brings smiles to children with illnesses and their families. We'll choose a different organization every month so we can give to those in need of hope, a smile or more. Are you a SunSpots client or voiceover talent? Click below, become a fan and help us help a good cause.

Thanks!

Tom

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Union or Non-Union, is that the voiceover question?

Earlier this week I received an email from an active Non-Union voice talent. Let's call this voiceover person, Terry, to cover all the gender bases. Terry felt that since they've been Non-Union, (not a member of SAG/AFTRA) that they could make more money by being a Union member exclusively. In Terry's mind movie trailers, National Retailer TV and Radio accounts, the biggest of the big voiceover jobs are just sitting there ripe for the picking. Terry's very experienced with 15 years of full-time freelance voiceovers behind the microphone. Like dreams of those dancing sugarplums Terry's thinking that the bump "up" to Union status is the way to go to advance Terry's career.

But is it true? Would Terry make more as a Union voiceover talent?

My opinion...it depends. Timing, meaning right place and right time are important, Terry's vocal skill set, Terry's physical location may also make a difference.

What about Financial Core? Doesn't Fi-Core allow you to do BOTH Union and Non-Union work? Sometimes being Fi-Core can be a great benefit if you're in the right location, conversely you can become a vo pariah if you live somewhere else.

These are questions I'd love to have discussed by those of you in the know about such things. I'm Fi-Core myself. I lost my agent in NYC because I was Fi-Core, yet for years outside of NYC, I was the voice of Circuit City (RIP), Nissan and Lenscrafters. Those gigs provided enough income to...well...to be life changing.

My bread and butter, the day in day out gigs are always non-union. Sometimes they pay very well, even above Union voice rates, most of the time not. I've always looked at this as a volume game and with volume one can become very financially successful.

What are your thoughts? Are you an experienced talent who has done both as Financial Core or previously one now the other? Are you a full-time Union voiceover talent? With the internet the tables have more than turned, they've been flipped over and it's anyone's game anymore.

We'd love to hear what you have to say on the issue.

Also, if you're searching for professional union and non-union voiceover talent please visit us at SunSpots. Search here for voice talent.

Thanks in advance for your input.
Tom

Voiceover Talent Marv Henry passed away

Voice Talent Bob Jump informs us that one of the pioneers in our voiceover world, Marv Henry, has passed away. Marv Henry was one of our friends at Studiocenter's original founding voice talents. Our condolences and best wishes to his family and friends.

Every time we lose someone it's another reminder to tell our friends and family how much we love them.

Thanks Bob, for letting us know.
Peace-
Tom

UPDATE: A more detailed story was posted last night by Jim Washington from the Virginian-Pilot:

By Jim Washington
The Virginian-Pilot
© February 16, 2009
Marv Henry, a well-known voice on local radio for decades, died Monday.

According to friends, Henry's work appeared in movies, television and radio over the years. He worked for several local stations, including WAVY, WFOG and WTKR, and did voiceover work for the company Studio Center Worldwide in Norfolk.

Henry was one of the company's founding talents back in the 1960s, according to owner William Prettyman.

“He was one of the all-time best voices at the company,” Prettyman said. “He was a legend.”

Dave Davis is a producer at Studio Central and worked with Henry for almost 20 years.

“He was the most talented voice actor I’ve ever worked with,” Davis said. “He had a range that was second to none. He could draw poetry out of the words. He had an ability to make anything sound better than it was written.”

Henry was an office cut-up as well, Davis said. His co-workers often found themselves the subject of his doodles.

“He was always drawing cartoons of people at work,” Davis said. “He was like an uncle. A mischevious uncle.”