Ximena Viver from Quito and Juan Carlos González from Ambato speak of their experience in voice over. Viver has worked for Netflix and other platforms.
Ecuadorian voices sound more and more internationally, this time through Quito Ximena live and the ambateño Juan Carlos Gonzalez, who are nominated in the 8th edition of the Voice Arts Awards (SOVAS), the ‘Óscar de la voz’. They are awarded by the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences.
Viver, who has lived in Buenos Aires for five years, is nominated in the category best TV commercial, he ran with the CNT ‘Stay at home’ campaign in 2020. While González has a candidacy in the category of best announcer for radio commercial. He applied with a radio commercial for Banco Internacional. It is the first time that both are nominated.
Ecuadorian Adrián Khalifé nominated in two categories at the Lavat awards, which recognize the best of voice over and dubbing in Latin America
What does this nomination mean? “For me it means a huge achievement in my career, I am excited for being the first Ecuadorian nominated in this, I am moved by women, because of what it means to us for the locution for our industry that sometimes is so on the side … They do not see us, they only listen to us and sometimes that makes people forget that we exist and that we have a super hard work and an important road and journey. For us it is a career is not a hobby… it’s a profession … ”, Viver responds from Buenos Aires.
“The interesting thing about the awards is that they recognize the work of voice artists in different categories … that have to do with audiobooks, dubbing of series and movies, with documentary narrations. The list of categories in which there are nominees is really very broad. These awards include the work of voice artists from different languages: English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese ”, explains González.
The announcement to González’s life came at an early age. He has been a presenter on some radio stations. He has been conducting the program for 16 years The Big Show. Is the voice-over of the Chanel Central AmericaTV, in United States. It was for several years the voice of Day to day from Teleamazonas; also the voice in off from Hidden camera. He has also been the voice of several brands in Ecuador, Banco Pichincha, UDLA, among others.
Viver, for his part, started thirteen years ago in voice over, on radio, and little by little he began to enter into commercial voice over and in that search he fell in love with the idea of dubbing. He traveled to Argentina to study. “Argentina is the second pole of dubbing in Latin America, so there is a lot of work and a lot of dubbing is exported from here to the world,” he says.
As part of their work in dubbing they are for Netflix in The Umbrella Academy (Lila Pitts, 2020 – present); The curse of Bly Manor (Adult Jamie, the narrator in 2020); The curse of Hill House (Olivia Crain, 2018); Fauda (Hila, 2020); Black Mirror (Emily, Yasha Jackson, in the fourth season, 2017 and Katie, Wunmi Mosaku, in the third season, 2016); Big Mouth (Diane Birch, 2017-present); and in Hilda (Lider Gorrion).
In Disney in Neighbors Green (Nancy Green, 2018 – presente); Vampirina (Gregoria, 2017 – present); in Cartoon Network, in The infinite train (Grace, 2021); The surreal world of Any Malu (Agatha, 2019 – present); in Discovery H&H in Vivala o Vendala Vancouver (Jilian Harris, 2016-2018).
And in video games of Play Sation, in Returnal (Selene Vassos -Jane Perry- 2021); Ghost of Tsushima (Yuna -Sumalee Montano- 2020); Y Sackboy: A Big Adventure (Scarlet -Dawn French- 2020).
According to Viver, she is the first Ecuadorian to win an award for best voice actress in Spanish in a video game at the Equinox Awards, in Mexico, which were delivered in September this year.
González and Viver recorded a tour guide for the Houston Holocaust Museum.
The award ceremony will be this Sunday, at 6:30 p.m., in New York, United States. It will be broadcast through the website www.sovas.org. (I)
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