Leif Bradshaw
Leif Bradshaw
@red-maned-maestroProfessional singer of all genres, and developing voice-over artist with a great love of mimicry, dramatic readings, and campy characters.
I have been singing publicly since the age of 9, and haven't looked back since. Nowadays, I mainly earn a living as a section leader in several classical community choirs, and performing jazz, latin, and soul standards at local venues. For fun, there's some rock and folk shows here and there, too. However, I also couldn't help but be drawn to the art of the voice for other performance methods than singing, even though singing is my greatest joy. I have had a love of animation and the power of voice acting since early childhood, and spent much of my formative years trying to memorize movie scripts I loved, including the tone of the voices behind those lines. As such, I hope to see what my vocal impressions can lead to, whilst also learning how to act. My musical ambitions beyond singing have even led to a Bachelor's in Music, with a major in Music Theory and Composition, with a handful of quirky original classical pieces under my belt. I am also on the autism spectrum, so forgive me if communication sometimes gets a little weird with me. I may struggle with thinking of what to say on the fly without a script, but give me dialogue and reading instructions, and there may not be a need for many takes.
I tend to charge $50 per hour for my singing gigs, and feel disinclined to not do the same for paid voice-over work. However, for the sake of gaining experience, I will only draw the line at working for free, barring the free projects I am already attached to.
My main game here is to find opportunities to practice more as a voice-over artist, since I have optimistic feelings about my ability to gain a foothold in careers such as voice acting, narration, audiobooks, and the like. I also hope that, like many others here I'm sure, it can lead to some truly amazing gigs in the future.