- Direct Voice
Direct voice is a physical phenomenon of a voice reportedly originating in space without visible source or agency, under the control of a spiritual medium. Historically, such voices were said to be produced by special, which would sail about the séance room in the dark and approach a person for whom a message was intended. In later years the trumpets were dispensed with and the voices could be heard coming from all directions. - Dr Voice
Anthony Wade is known as Dr. Voice, a British vocal coach from Chatham, Kent. As a child he witnessed Tom Jones record “It’s Not Unusual” and at the age of 12 and helped The Beatles set up backstage in his father’s ballroom (Chatham, Kent) in the Sixties, this provided his first inpsiration to become a vocal coach. He emigrated to Australia at the age of 18. Anthony lived in Sydney for 15 years, 10 of which in an Ashram meditating. - Voice
Curtis "Voice" Allen is a Reformed Christian hip hop artist from Washington, D.C.. He has released two studio albums: "Progression", his 2005 debut album, and most recently "The Crucible". The name "Voice" comes from a passage in the biblical gospel of Matthew, concerning John the Baptist: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness". Allen is a pastoral intern at Covenant Life Church, a "Reformed charismatic" church pastored by Joshua Harris. - Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker OBE (born John Robert Cocker, 20 May 1944, Sheffield) is an English rock/blues singer who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice and his cover versions of popular songs. - Vin Diesel
Vin Diesel is an American actor, writer, director, and producer. Diesel is the founder of the production companies OneRace Films, Tigon Studios, and Racetrack Records. Diesel made his stage debut at age seven when he appeared in "Theatre for the New City," which was produced in Greenwich Village and directed by Thomas Hinkerman. He remained involved with the theatre throughout adolescence, going on to attend the city's Hunter College, … - J. Hoberman
Jim Hoberman (born 1948), also known as J. Hoberman is a prominent American film critic. He's currently the senior film critic for "The Village Voice", a post he has held since 1988. - Toni Braxton
Toni Michelle Braxton (born October 7, 1967 in Severn, Maryland) is a six-time Grammy Award-winning American R&B singer, songwriter, and actress who was popular during the 1990s. She is famous for her husky alto vocal timbre. The RIAA named Braxton as one of the top selling artists of all time. - Jo Stafford
Jo Stafford (born Jo Elizabeth Stafford November 12 1917, in Coalinga, California) is an American pop singer whose career spanned the late 1930s through the early 1960s. Stafford is greatly admired for the purity of her voice and is considered one of the most versatile vocalists of the era. She is also viewed as a pioneer of modern musical parody, … - Robert Christgau
Robert Christgau (born April 18, 1942), is an American essayist, music journalist, and the self-declared "Dean of American Rock Critics". In print, his name is sometimes abbreviated as "Xgau". - Gilbert Gottfried
Gilbert Gottfried (born February 28 1955 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American stand-up comedian. - Dan Castellaneta
Daniel Louis Castellaneta (born September 10, 1958) is an Emmy award winning American voice actor and comedian best known for providing the voice of Homer Simpson and other characters on the animated series "The Simpsons". - John Doyle
John Doyle is a professional announcer whose voice is used by, amongst others, the National Institute of Standards and Technology on their radio clock WWV. He was also a veteran weathercaster for several metro Atlanta television stations, including WSB-TV 2, WAGA TV 5, and WGCL-TV 46. His career started at WSB AM 750 in Atlanta. - Mark Spencer
Mark Spencer (born April 8, 1977) is a computer engineer and is the original author of the GTK+-based instant messaging client Gaim, the L2TP daemon l2tpd and the Cheops Network User Interface. Mark Spencer is also the creator of Asterisk, a Linux-based open-sourced PBX in software. He is the founder, chairman and CTO of Digium, an open-source telecommunications supplier most notable for its development and sponsorship of Asterisk. - Jon Lovitz
Jonathan M. Lovitz (born July 21, 1957) is an American actor and comedian perhaps best known as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" and for his show "The Critic". - Keith David
Keith David (born June 4, 1956) is an American film, television, and voice actor. - Kevin Conroy
Kevin Conroy (born November 30 1955) is an American actor of stage, screen, and voice, perhaps best known for his portrayal of DC Comics superhero Batman in numerous animated series and features that comprised the DC animated universe. - Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Blethyn OBE (born 20 February 1946) is a Golden Globe-winning English film, stage, television and voice actress, and writer. Blethyn performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from comedies and dramas to historical films and crimes. She is best known for her films released in the 1990s and 2000s, including "Secrets & Lies" (1996), "Little Voice" (1998), "Saving Grace" (2000), and "Pride & Prejudice" (2005). - Mark Schiff
Mark Schiff (born in Bronx, New York City, New York) is a voice actor and comedian. He provided the voice of the little dog on the animated series "2 Stupid Dogs", among other voice talents. - J. K. Simmons
Jonathan Kimble Simmons (born January 9, 1955) is an American character actor. - Larry Williams
Larry Williams was an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for writing and recording some Rock 'n' Roll standards from 1957 to 1959 for Specialty Records, including "Bony Moronie" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" (see also: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll). Several of his songs achieved later success as cover versions by The Beatles ("Bad Boy", "Slow Down", … - Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed is an English actor, who came to fame as PC 'Fancy' Smith in the BBC TV police drama series "Z Cars". He is a highly charismatic man with a booming voice, great beard and robust build ideal for the bushy bearded, often humorous men in Shakespearean and medieval dramas. The son of a miner, Blessed was born in the ex-mining town of Mexborough and grew up in the nearby town of Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. - Richard Brooks
Richard L. Brooks (born 1962) is an African-American actor, singer, and director. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Brooks studied acting, dance, and voice work at Interlochen Academy of Arts in Michigan. Later, he moved to New York City and was a student of the Circle in the Square Professional Theater School and performed in the Eugene O'Neill Theater Conference production of August Wilson's "Fences". - Kiki Dee
Kiki Dee (born Pauline Matthews on 6 March 1947, in Little Horton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England) is a highly successful singer/songwriter, with a career that has lasted over 40 years. Her most famous song was a duet with Elton John, entitled "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", which was released in 1976 and went to Number 1. (She later performed another duet with Elton John for his "Duets" album, … - Allison Crowe
Allison Louise Crowe (born November 16, 1981) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and pianist from Nanaimo, British Columbia who now lives in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Crowe records on her own record label, Rubenesque Records Ltd. (formed in 2003 and marketed by Festival Distribution). Her first full-length albums, "Secrets" and "Tidings", were released in 2004, when Crowe was 22. - Colin Blunstone
Colin Edward Michael Blunstone (born June 24 1945 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire) is an English pop singer/songwriter, best known as a member of pop group, The Zombies. He attended St Albans County Grammar School and played basketball. - Hermeto Pascoal
Hermeto Pascoal is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist born in Arapiraca, area of Alagoas, Northeast Brazil. Hermeto Pascoal is a prolific musician and composer who transcends category. Hermeto often uses unconventional instruments such as teapots, children's toys, found objects, and--sometimes, without harming them--live animals. He uses nature as a basis for his compositions, … - Billy Williams
Billy Williams was a singer, who had a hugely successful cover recording of Fats Waller's "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter" in 1957. His trademark hook for his songs was to shout "Oh, Yeah" at the end of lyrics. He was the lead singer of The Charioteers between 1930 and 1950, when he formed his own Billy Williams Quartet with Eugene Dixon, Claude Riddick and John Ball. - Andy White
Andy White (born 1930, Glasgow, Scotland) is a drummer, best known for playing drums on The Beatles first single, "Love Me Do" - White was in fact on the 7" single version released in the United States. He also played drums on the "Love Me Do" B-side, "P.S. I Love You." White was a studio drummer in the 1950s and 1960s in London, recording with artists such as Billy Fury, Marlene Dietrich, Herman's Hermits, Bert Weedon and Tom Jones. - Junior Murvin
Junior Murvin (born Murvin Junior Smith, circa 1949, Port Antonio, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae artist. He is best known for the classic single "Police and Thieves", produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry in 1976. Murvin's soaring voice and the infectious rhythm made "Police and Thieves" into an international hit during the summer of that year. The song was so influential, that it was recorded by the punk rock pioneers The Clash, on their debut album the following year. - Johnny Adams
Johnny Adams (Laten John Adams, 5 January 1932 - 14 September 1998) was an American blues singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was known as "The Tan Canary" for the amazing range of his singing voice and his gospel influenced style. He began his career singing gospel, but crossed over to secular music in 1959, … - Alexander Gould
Alexander Jerome Gould (born May 4, 1994) is an American child and voice actor. - Cornell Campbell
Cornell Campbell (born 23 November 1945, Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae singer, best known for his falsetto voice, and his recordings at Studio One in the late 1960s and his work with Bunny Lee in the 1970s. - Klaus Meine
Klaus Meine (born May 25, 1948, Wedemark, Hanover, Germany) is the lead vocalist for German rock band Scorpions. Meine writes most of, but not all the lyrics to Scorpions' songs. He also shares the authorship of some lyrics with Herman Rarebell (former drummer of the Scorpions) on some songs like the major hit "Rock You Like a Hurricane", among others. He also composed some songs alone like "Wind of Change" and "When The Smoke Is Going Down". - Julie Driscoll
Julie Tippetts (born Julie Driscoll, 8 June 1947, London, England) is an English singer and actress, best known for her 1960s versions of Bob Dylan's "This Wheel's on Fire", and Donovan's "Season of the Witch", both with Brian Auger's Trinity. She and Auger had previously worked together in the band Steampacket, with Long John Baldry and Rod Stewart. Since the 1970s, as wife and musical collaborator of jazz musician Keith Tippett, … - Ivan Neville
Ivan Neville (born 19 August 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana) is a multi-instrumentalist musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the son of Aaron Neville and nephew to members of the Neville Brothers. He has released four solo albums and had a Top 40 Billboard hit with "Not Just Another Girl" from his first solo album "If My Ancestors Could See Me Now". - Matthew Wilder
Matthew Wilder (born Matthew Weiner, January 24 1953, in New York City) is an American musician best known for his 1983 Top 5 hit, "Break My Stride". Wilder was one-half of the Greenwich Village folk group Matthew & Peter in the 1970s. In 1978 he moved to Los Angeles and sang for television commercials, and as a backing singer for Rickie Lee Jones and Bette Midler. Wilder's debut album, "I Don't Speak the Language" (1983), reached number 49 on the Billboard chart, … - Timothy B. Schmit
Timothy Bruce Schmit (born October 30, 1947, in Oakland, California), is a bass guitarist and singer best known as a member of Poco and the Eagles. Raised in Sacramento, he began playing in the folk music group Tim, Tim & Ron at age 15. That group evolved into a surf band called the Contenders, then changed its name to the New Breed. Changing its name once again to Glad, the group recorded the album "Feelin' Glad" in 1968. - Tony Hadley
Tony Hadley (born Anthony Patrick Hadley, 2 June 1960, Islington, London) is an English pop singer who fronted the 1980s New Romantic band Spandau Ballet. The group disbanded in 1989, after their final studio album, "Heart Like a Sky", failed to live up to the critical and commercial success of their earlier albums, such as "True". As a matter of fact Heart Like A Sky was not even released in the United States. - Richard Kiley
Richard Paul Kiley (March 31, 1922 - March 5, 1999) was an American stage, television, and film actor, though he is best known for his voice work, as narrator of various documentary series. In "Jurassic Park", the park's impresario boasts about the tour of the park, "The voice you're now hearing is Richard Kiley. We've spared no expense." Kiley was introduced as the narrator for the tour first in the novel by Michael Crichton, … - Terry Scott
Terry Scott (May 4,1927 - July 26, 1994) was an actor and comedian who appeared in seven "Carry On films". He also appeared in BBC One's popular domestic sitcom "Terry and June" with June Whitfield. As a regular comedy performer, he went on to become one of Britain's top stars. Scott was born in Watford and educated at Watford Field Junior School then Watford Grammar School. He studied accounting and served in the Navy during World War II.
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