S1 E34 Guest: Jeff McNeal, Voice Artist

It's not unusual to hear an AI voice in Voiceovers. Rayanne will talk to Voice Artist, Jeff McNeal about the impact AI is having on voice artists and singers. Jeff McNeal is a Southern California native and voice over artist, in the truest sense. Beginning as a Monterey, CA radio personality in 1978, he quickly achieved his goal of returning home to the Los Angeles radio market the following year, while still a teenager, where he was heard on several prominent L.A. radio stations including KIIS FM and KRTH 101, before moving to San Francisco in 1982 to host PM drive for NBC’s FM station, KYUU. (https://www.jeffmcneal.com/) Upon the sale of the NBC radio division in 1998, Jeff moved his family back to SoCal, landing in San Diego and dabbling in radio for several years while focusing on the development of his own voice production company, finally retiring from radio in 1997 before exclusively pursuing voice overs. Since that time, Jeff has served as one of the longest running signature voices for KNBC, featured in several movie trailers, including Disney’s Winnie The Pooh, Beauty & The Beast and Frozen, along with appearing on hundreds of radio and television commercials and network promos, heard across the nation and sometimes internationally, to this day. A prolific vocal impressionist, as a hobby, Jeff started doing vocal impressions of popular singers 15-years ago on YouTube, before launching his own classic rock tribute band in Temecula, CA in 2010 in order to perform them live. His YouTube channel dedicated to his vocal impressions has thousands of subcribers and millions of views. For ten years, Jeff’s band, Mrs. Jones’ Revenge, performed tribute caliber vocals and instrumentals emulating over 50 different artists and bands as if they were performing their own hits live. MRJ was one of the most sought after for entertainment in the region before disbanding in mid-2020. Jeff has been married since 1983, has three grown children and three grandchildren. Jeff’s interests include solar energy, electric vehicles, and investing for financial independence. Jeff McNeal remains an active participant in voice overs, lending credibility to numerous commercial, industrial and political campaigns.