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Writer's pictureCathie Rooyen

Listen to the sound of the voice...

Wednesday 31st May 2023


Some exciting things happened to me today and one of them was as I opened my eyes.


In April, I did a Voice Over course in South Africa and on my last Friday in the country, I recorded a whole lot of demos. Different voices and genres for reading, commercials or documentaries. It was both fun and terrifying. This morning the edited audios got sent to me and I nervously listened to the first one.


I haven't done much in the line of performing lately,  although I've been making some sound files on my travels for my future podcast that I'd wanted to have completed by now. Listening to my own voice in those different capacities made my toes curl a little bit and my eyes blink furiously. I think I was a little shocked and possibly still am so I decided to go out for a run to clear my head.


I went quite a different route and I was avoiding the steeper hills so I ended up going further than planned.  I remembered to take £2- to buy my lottery ticket because my banking apps don't let me buy tickets while overseas.  As I was rehearsing what I'm going to do with my money, I was saying some affirmations and doing my little tapping process on my fingers. I was saying thing like 'I want to be financially rich, it's safe for me to earn, I am open to lots of easy money...' when I heard some music coming from a house nearby. Initially I thought it was live rehearsals but it wasn't.  As the music riff ended the first line that played was "I don't need no money, fortune, or fame..." from the song 'I've got sunshine' by the Temptations. I snorted with laughter at how hard my cosmic DJ must've worked to get this to happen,  my grin stayed with me all the back to my brother's place. 


I updated my LinkedIn profile to say Voice Over Artist and over the next week I hope to get everything online and sorted. Right now, I'm adjusting to the new possibilities that life seems to bring to me. It's such fun!



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