Is it possible to make lots of money with just your voice?
Certainly. For decades people have made successful careers out of voice acting, voiceovers, radio,even automated systems.
Only a handful, however, reach the pinnacle of the profession, people who do indeed make tons of money from their voice.
And sometimes their careers take unexpected turns. And that’s where we find longtime radio personality turned TV star Gary Owens.
He was a successful and popular radio personality in Los Angeles in the 1960s, when he was recruited to join an unusual new TV show called “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.”
But actually, even though “Laugh-In” may be what he is best remembered for, Gary Owens had a very long and very successful voice acting career.
Owens was never one to gatekeep, so in 2004 he wrote a book called How to Make a Million Dollars With Your Voice. Now keeping in mind that that was over 20 years ago, long before anyone knew that AI was going to take over a lot of the voicing environment, so some of what he says is a little dated.
But not to worry, because listening to the stories that Gary Owens tells more than makes up for it.
So here now, from 2004, Gary Owens.
Gary Owens died in 2015, at age 80.