Bob Michaels; Voice Talent, Narrator, Announcer, Voice-Overs

Bob Michaels; Voice Talent, Narrator, Announcer, Voice-Overs
Bob Michaels is a Dallas, Texas-based voice talent; a narrator, voice actor, and announcer providing voice-overs for electronic and broadcast media.

Voice123 Voice Acting Webinars Available in the Resource Center
Recordings of the online seminars for voice over talents are now available at the website's resource center. [SANEPR 20 April, 2007]

"The Bride in the Attic" - a DoomBuggies.com Halloween special
ANAHEIM, CA - The mythic, haunting history of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion will finally be told by voice talent Kat Cressida, the artist whose performance as the high-tech "Black Widow Bride" was added in early 2006 to the Disneyland version of the Haunted Mansion attraction as part of park-wide enhancements made to the attractions during Disneyland's 50th anniversary festivities.

Disney aficionados will be pleased to hear that this is the first time that a telling of the "backstory" from the Haunted Mansion is presented being based on the story as it was told by the WED Enterprises "Imagineers" themselves back in the earliest days of the attraction's existence. For decades, Haunted Mansion fans have told tales and myths of the Mansion's storied history, with little more than anecdotal evidence to back their claims. Cressida's telling of the story will be pulled directly from her childhood conversations with her father, who worked for Disneyland's PR Department, and also worked directly with the original Imagineers who created this famed attraction.

"Dad was a graphic artist and 'marketing-meister' who worked closely with Disneyland in the early '70s, so he had come in contact with many of the Imagineers who had crafted the attraction," Cressida explains. "[While waiting in line for the ride,] he loved to ask me, 'Why is the Mansion so neat and pretty if it's called the Haunted Mansion?' He'd ask, 'Do you see that? Do you know what this is? Do you know why that's there??', which led to a grand unfolding of this tale as we inched our way towards the turnstiles."

Curious? Well, be certain to visit DoomBuggies.com on Halloween day, 2006, to hear the story of "The Bride in the Attic" for yourself! The story will be streaming for free for one day only (and will then be available as a download for your digital music library for 99 cents.)

"Nuptial Doom: The Bride in the Attic"
A History of the Haunted Mansion… As Told by Kat Cressida

Adapted by John Starling

Written for Recording by John Starling & Kat Cressida

Recorded at the GRAMMY® Award-winning SoundWorks Studios, North Hollywood, California, on October 19, 2006

Recording mixed & produced by Jeff Sheridan

Sound effects courtesy of Walt Disney Records, from a new digital master of the original sounds of the Haunted Mansion

Special thanks to: Chris Goosman, (Walt Disney Imagineering), Tom Fitzgerald (Walt Disney Imagineering), Walt Disney Records, Brian Nefsky, (Theme Park Productions), Ned Lott, Howard Green (Walt Disney Studios), Tim Curtis (William Morris Agency), Jerry Beber… and a certain Pirate.

To view Kat Cressida's extensive VO credits (including her work for other Disneyland attractions), visit KatCressida.com.

About DoomBuggies.com
DoomBuggies.com, a tribute to Disney's Haunted Mansion attractions, has been called "exhaustively in-depth" by Variety Magazine, and has been named a Yahoo! Pick of the week, as well as a USA Today HotSite. The web site, which will celebrate its 9th anniversary on Halloween, features a rich tapestry of history, stories, secrets, interviews, and multimedia offerings that enable visitors to both re-live their memories of the Haunted Mansion and enhance future trips through the ride by arming themselves with insight and understanding of the attraction. The web site also features a large and active message-board community of fans of the Haunted Mansion.

Voices.com Makes Giant Splash at VOICE 2007 in Las Vegas

Major Sponsor Voices.com heated up Vegas sands with charisma and good old-fashioned fun at the Voice Over International Creative Experience (VOICE).

Voices in the Dark
I feel weak, famished, done…

What am I doing here? Where am I?

Oh, if only I could move my hands and legs! Voices, I can hear voices, strange and familiar. I know that voice. Whose's it?

Dark, it is dark here. If only I could open my eyes!

25 ways to get publicity and traffic to your web site
I subscribe to a fantastic e-zine called The Publicity Hound written by Joan Stewart. In each week's issue, she posts a question to "help this hound", and the question this week was from another voice talent who wanted to know how to drive traffic to his web site. I answered with 20 suggestions on Joan's blog but am including my answer here these ideas may help other people. Also, I am adding 5 more ideas that I didn't include in my original answer. As another voice-over talent, many newcomers to the industry ask me the same question. I have written essays on my blog in which I point out that voice-over is a business that requires a marketing plan. Like any business owner, the talent should determine where s/he fits in the marketplace and develop a marketing plan that targets the primary prospects on a steady and consistent basis. Numerous ways exist to contact the prospects and depend on a person's time, budget and creativity. If the goal is simply to drive traffic to a web site, obviously, getting a link to your site published in a popular e-zine like The Publicity Hound will do the trick!

Missa Introduxit me rex in cellam vinariam : Patrem and Sanctus only.
Publisher: Praha : Department of Music History. Institute of Ethnology. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, c2006.
Subjects:Masses Excerpts., Credo (Music), Sanctus (Music), Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied.

In te Domine speravi : two tenors (or sopranos), bass & continuo / Giovanni Antonio Rigatti ; edited by Dennis Collins.
Author: Rigatti, Giovanni Antonio, ca. 1613-1648.
Publisher: [Dundee] : Prima la musica!, c2004.
Subjects:Sacred vocal trios with continuo., Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 3 parts) with continuo., Psalms (Music) 31st Psalm.

Voice Actors to Benefit from Spring ’07 Release of Voices.com
Voice actors around the world are about discover a new reality that will make working online easier, more productive and liberating at Voices.com, the #1 Voice Over Marketplace. [PR.com - May 04, 2007]