Speak Like An Adult

Many young people are hampered in business, academia, and social situations by something they may not be aware of a speech pattern that is often seen as a marker of immaturity, subservience and even stupidity. This is commonly known as “the little girl voice.” Click here for more info!

What You Need to Know For the 57th Grammys

The 57th Annual Grammys are approaching this Sunday and Zone Recording Studio of Cotati has all the insider information you need to stay up to date. Click here for more info.

Grand Blanc man finds audience as voiceover artist

Professional voice over artist Markham Anderson offers you a unique set of skills. Markham’s oldest and most loyal clients call him the “man of a thousand voices.” He brings to your project a wide range of industry and life experiences. Age ranges: 30’s through middle age, to elderly and mature. A true Texan by birth, Markham Anderson is known for having no accent at all or being able to turn on his Southern, surfer dude, or east coast city boy dialects at the director’s whim! Markham excels, and works heavily in: radio and television commercials, corporate narrations, character and animation voices, celebrity impressions, and internet narration. Markham has also performed ADR (dialogue replacement) in a number of Japanese language originated films such as “Street Fighter” and “SIN-The Movie.” (ADV Films).

“I do like 70 different celebrity impressions and I started making money at it and it just went from there,” said Anderson from his recording studio located inside his historic Grand Blanc farmhouse. “For the last 10 to 12 years I’ve been doing this full time from home.”

Anderson, a former Texan and U.S. Marine, works as a voiceover artist, a career he stumbled upon while working in radio.

“Being able to work from home is a blessing, I was injured when I was with the Marines, my son is disabled too, this is just the way life is turned out,” said Anderson, whose son Connor is autistic.

Anderson started in television in the early 1990s, shooting television commercials in California, before moving to Texas and working in radio.

“Radio is about as hard as television, you never know if you have a job from week to week,” he said. “Suddenly you are on top of the world making $60,000 as on-air talent and then someone buys the station and says your voice doesn’t fit our format.”

It was while living in Texas that Anderson said he first utilized his skills at impersonating celebrities to do commercials.

“I did some free commercials about 12 years ago in Texas and then car dealerships started paying me to do their voice work, $100 here, $150 there and then it suddenly became a career,” he said.

It was while working as one of the producers for “The Wannabes,” a television show filmed in Michigan, that Anderson said he decided to buy a home in Michigan to avoid the Texas heat and work full-time doing vocal work.

He’s provided vocals for companies like Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., The Learning Channel, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central

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Rolling Stones Recording in France

After months of speculation whether the Rolling Stones would record this year to mark their 50th anniversary, the band spent time in a Paris recording studio last week. The band was photographed exiting an unnamed studio on August 21st. Two days, later, Jagger tweeted a photo of himself in a studio surrounded by some very Stonesy items: cases of Fender amps, Telecasters, Stratocasters and several harmonicas. “Had fun in the Paris studio this week!” he wrote.

Last week, the Stones also posted a cryptic image of animal eyes on their Facebook page, instructing fans to download the free “uView” app and point their phones at the screen. The eyes came to life and an animal growled while “Start Me Up” played.

It’s at least the third time the band has gathered in recent months; they rehearsed in the New York area in late April. “We played everything, really,” Keith Richards told Rolling Stone then. “We’re just getting our chops together. It was like playing in the garage, a maintenance check, you know?”

The last day of the rehearsals was filmed by director Brett Morgen for a documentary chronicling the band’s history to appear on HBO this fall. “Someone would mention a song, and within the second run they had nailed it,” Morgen says. “Having screened through 50 years of material over the last six months, I would rank it up there with anything I’ve ever heard from them. They were extremely tight.”

The band also gathered in London in July to celebrate their 50th anniversary with a photo exhibit. Before that meeting, Keith Richards told Rolling Stone the band would also use the time to discuss recording. “I’d love to get some tracks down and see what songs we’ve got. And that goes along with part of getting the band back together and getting things moving. So I’d love to cut some tracks, yeah.” Asked if he saw himself writing one-on-one with Jagger again, Richards replied, “I have no doubt.”

If the band is recording new material, it would be their first new songs since 2005’s A Bigger Bang. (They’ve since brushed up a few old songs for 2010’s Exile on Main Street and 2011’s Some Girls reissue compilations).

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