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Hard as it may be to believe but the incoming presidential elect Joe Biden now has a career in public office dating back over 44 years. That's close to double my age. Throughout that entire time he's had the nickname middle class Joe and is often referred to himself as one of the poorest members of Congress. These days he's definitely not the poorest member of Congress with multiple real estate holdings like a few in Delaware and living in lavish homes throughout the years which we'll check out in this video. In these videos we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place these do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Joe Biden comes from scrappy roots he was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to a father that suffered a series of financial setbacks and for a short time there at least Joe wasn't any different. According to the Wall Street Journal the reason why Biden was so often at the bottom of the wealth ladder among his other colleagues in the Senate had a lot to do with his life long obsession for real estate. He wrote in his autobiography promises to keep even as a kid in high school I'd been seduced by real estate. As a youngster in his 20s Biden began buying up homes especially ones outside of his budget taking out multiple mortgages and receiving loans against life insurance policies. As he grew older his net worth was often in the negatives and by 2007 he was ranked as the least wealthy senator in the US when his net worth was estimated to be less than $30,000. But today the 77 year old presidential election is far from middle class. According to a 2019 Forbes estimate Biden and his wife Jill are now worth as much as $9 million much of which was earned from $100,000 speaking fees and $8 million book deals that came pouring in after his vice presidency. About $4 million of his overall net worth is estimated to be wrapped up in his current real estate holdings two homes that he owns in Delaware and today I'm gonna tell you not only about them but a couple others he's lived in over the years too. How's it going guys and gals it's Kara here for you with a brand new house tour. I noticed 95% of you watching aren't subscribed so hit that subscribe button and ring that bell we post a new video daily. Today we're gonna be taking a look at the homes of presidential elect Joe Biden and while we don't have a whole lot to share with you in terms of the current interiors of these homes I've still got all the details you could want along with some juicy gossip so if you ever wanted to know how Joe Biden lives by the end of this video you will as always let me know what you think by following me on Instagram or dropping your thoughts in the comments down below now let's get into this video. Let's start with the Biden's main home located in Wilmington Delaware. The house is situated to overlook a man-made lake that was created by the wealthy members of the DuPont family local real estate agents called this area one of the most expensive in the state and it's known as Chateau Country thinks in large part to a group of massive colonial estates that were built in the area also by the DuPont family. Joe and Jill first purchased the four acres of land that this home sits on back in 1996 for $350,000 soon after they built a 6,850 square foot home on the premises which is now estimated to be worth somewhere in the $1 million to $2 million range. During his vice presidency it was reported that Joe rented out the cottage located in the property to the Secret Service for 220 a month. I don't know how smart it is to make the people protecting you pay for the opportunity to do so but one look at his bank account tells us it clearly worked out for him. A few years back when Joe's son Beau was valiantly fighting against brain cancer Joe considered selling this home to help pay for the treatment but he was discouraged from doing so by a pretty surprising source President Barack Obama. President Obama offered to lend him the money instead. The Bidens are reportedly seen around town here a whole bunch spending time at the local grocery store Janssen's Market which is only a five minute drive from their home. They also attend the St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church nearby. Before we move on to Biden's vacation home I thought we took a quick look at Joe's former home located in the neighborhood of Greensville Delaware that recently came back to bite the president elect a little bit. As you can see the Trump family called this estate into question during the most recent election cycle questioning how old middle class Joe could afford such a nice estate but here's the thing he doesn't own it at least not anymore. Back in 1974 Joe was a very young senator and a recent widower when he purchased this former DuPont mansion for $185,000 at the time he nicknamed the home this station and it became his campaign headquarters for his first presidential run in 1988. Joe spent over two decades renovating the space and by the end the home featured five bedrooms 2.5 baths and over 10,000 square feet of living space. After staying here for close to 20 years Joe sold this home back in 1996 for $1.2 million a substantial gain over what he paid for it. Today as Smith suggests that the home is worth as much as $1.7 million.  Next up is a look at Joe's vacation home located in Rehoboth Beach at Delaware. In the summer of 2017 Joe is coming off of eight years as the vice commander-in-chief and he must have been looking for a little R&R because he and his wife Joe settled on this home on the Delaware shore scooping it up for $2.7 million. This beautiful 4,786 square foot beach house overlooks Cape Penelope State Park and is just a couple blocks from the beach. It features three stories six bedrooms 5.5 baths expansive porches views of the Atlantic Ocean and a backyard built for entertaining including an outdoor kitchen barbecue and fireplace to impress all those Washington socialites that Joe was close with. After buying this home Joe said in a statement throughout our careers Jill and I have dreamed of being able to buy a place at the beach at home where we can bring the whole family we feel very lucky that we're now able to make that happen and are looking forward to spending time with our family in the place that matters most to us in the world. For those of you paying attention 2017 is the same year that Biden's net worth catapulted upwards thanks to the speaking arrangements and book deals so in a very real way I think this home was a gift from Joe to Joe. When you're running for the most public office in all the land people are going to dig up a whole lot about your past. One of the homes that middle class Joe was associated with owning was this rental home located McLean Virginia and actuality the Bidens only rented this home between 2017 and 2019 paying twenty thousand dollars per month for a homeless estimated to be worth somewhere in the four million dollar range after moving out of the vice presidential residence at the naval observatory at the end of his term. This upscale neighborhood in Virginia is practically a who's who of senators supreme court justices and Washington diplomats. While staying here Joe lived in a Georgian style house which he rented from venture capitalist Mark Eames who previously purchased the home from Alexander Hagg the secretary of state during the Regan administration. Sprawled out at over 12,000 square feet this five bedroom beauty has its own gym sauna floor to ceiling windows and a driveway that's big enough for nearly 20 cars. Despite how nice it is in 2019 preparation for his upcoming presidential bid Joe and his wife moved out of this home to focus on the campaign. All right guys I think we'll bring this house tour to an end right there. What did you guys think about Joe Biden's homes? Which one of his many different paths would you prefer to stay at? Give me his beach house in Delaware and I'd be good to go. Let me know what you guys thought in the comments down below. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram and I'll catch you all in the next video. Bye!


What's going on and welcome to the FanDuel. How are we up? My name is Tom Vecchio. Week 13 is here and I am set to bring you three value plays for your DFS lineups. Let's jump right in starting off at the wide receiver position with Marvin Jones of the Jacksonville Jaguars. He's $5,600 this week. He comes with five targets or more in seven straight games. He has a 22% target share on the team, which leads the Jaguars. He also has a 30% red zone target share, which is also highest on the team. We see the Jaguars has 13-point road underdogs going up against the Rams in LA. Yes, this should put them in a positive passing game script, which will be good for Jones providing him with plenty of extra opportunities. And while the Rams are known for having a super strong defense, this year they're actually really, really average. They are 16th in the league against wide receivers, allowing 29.8 feint two points per game. So it's a surprisingly stronger matchup than you would assume. And Jones leads the team and is the primary target for Trevor Lawrence. So Marvin Jones $5,600. Next up is Logan Thomas also at $5,600 for the Washington football team. He returned last week from his injury. He played on 77% of the snaps and ran a route on 64% of the passing plays, which is good to see him back after an extended period of time off. He had six targets last week, only three catches for 31 yards. Modest production overall, but this week we should see him with an expanded role because the matchup against the Raiders is so, so good. The Raiders are allowing the second most feint two points per game opposing Titans sitting at 14.4. So this really is a solid matchup for him. This game is a 49 and a half over under it's the third highest on the slate. And we see Washington coming with a strong 24 implied team total. So everything good for Logan Thomas hopefully plays on a few more snaps this week runs a few more rounds gets a few more targets, which should all lead to more fancy points in a great matchup against the Raiders. So 5600 at Titan for Logan Thomas. And then finally Jamal Williams, he's $6500 for the Detroit Lions obviously a little bit more than a traditional value play. But with the Andre Swift ruled out for Detroit, we really should be seeing Williams as the bell cow primary back for their offense. Last week when after Swift went out he had 20 total touches in that game. He played on 66% of the snaps. He also had five targets for five receptions, which is good to see. He has a role in the passing game going up against the Minnesota Vikings this season. The Vikings are allowing the ninth most feint two points per game in opposing running vaccine at 22.5. So it's a good matchup for him. He should see close to 20 if not over 20 touches. And he's only $6500 for the lead back in an offense that isn't a good matchup against Minnesota. All right, so that does it for the feint. We'll hurry up. I'll be back next week bringing you three more value plays for your DFS lineup.


I am Rear Admiral Robin Graff here in Buffalo to help kick off the Buffalo Navy Week celebration. Navy Weeks are a lot of fun because they give us the opportunity to reach out to communities across the country and tell the Navy story, who we are, what we do, and why the Navy is important to America. Throughout this week you'll see many of our sailors around town sharing their Navy stories with the residents of Buffalo. Think of the Navy as America's away team, operating forward, on, above, and below the sea. And when you think of its significance, and the world in which we live, 70 percent of the world's surface is covered by water, 80 percent of the world's population lives near water, and 90 percent of the world's commerce travels by water. In other words, what happens at sea matters. It matters for the economy, and it matters for national security. This is the first time since 1999 that the U.S. Navy ships are visiting ports in the Great Lakes area, bringing the Navy to residents of Buffalo, and also commemorating the bicentennial of the War of 1812. It was during this war that Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the poem that later became the lyrics for the Star Spangled Banner, and also proved that the Navy was essential to our nation's defense and prosperity by protecting the free flow of goods and ensuring the freedom of the seas. I encourage you to come out, visit our ships, and talk with our sailors, and learn more about our Navy. For more information about the activities during Buffalo Navy Week, please visit navyweek.org and learn more about America's Navy, a global force for good.


Good morning. Good morning everybody. You are watching It's Our Kids. I mean like welcome to the weekend. We're playing Kenyan music. We're keeping it 100% ke. My name is Felinjin. Of course I'm hanging out with the one and only DJ Harry Saw right here. Ukofiti? Ukofiti. Ukofreshi. Ukofreshi. That's what I mean. Ukofreshi barida. Shout out to Ivnyaga. She couldn't be here today so I'm here holding her down. Msi Jali. Atarudi next week okay. I know you guys are like rada. Kuna enda je. But she'll be back next week. She's a little bit under the weather. We're wishing her all the best to that. But they go to her IG to her all her socials when the mum be a quick recovery. Okay. Do that. If you can do that for me that would be amazing. And of course we have our first guest right here in studio. He is he describes himself as a little man with a big voice. He is a voice. Okay. How do you say this? A voice talent coach and he's also a voice of an artist. Let's welcome in studio. Katkona yo. Alright. Let's welcome Henry Mwangangi. Nice nice nice. That's what I was looking for. How are you doing this lovely morning? I'm good. Thank you very much for having me. Thank you so much for coming through. I know it's morning. It's not easy to wake up. But we're so glad you could make it. Thank you. I'm happy to be here. Alright. I know I introduced you but I don't think I did you justice. So kindly if you can use camera for just go ahead and reintroduce yourself to our viewers. Alright. I'm Henry Mwangangi but most people know me as the voice of Henry Mwangangi. I'm a voice talent, a voice coach. Sauti yambayo naskia kwenia adbats. Most of the adbats have done most adbats on mainstream media. This is the face behind the voice. The face people never get to see. They hear the voice there. That is the bad thing about being the voice. Like even movie, the people who do voice-overs for movies, animations. You hear really great voices but you never get to see them. Yeah. I always mention Seth McFallen who is the writer of Family Guy. And in Family Guy Seth does over ten voices. He does like four mainstream voices. True story. He's done that has written the animation and he also does like four mainstream characters and six more characters. But people are so familiar with the voice yet they don't know the face. They don't know the face. Even I remember Gina Carter, the one who did one of my favorite animations. The black series, the one that has, she did like three characters. She's a lady but she voiced like three characters. Ana voice Machali and Naini Dem. It's like one of my favorite, like I'll remember within the interview I'll let you know. One of my favorite, all time favorite animations about Regina Carter. So like the voice can be very deceiving. True. Something I get a lot because the voice is huge, the body is small. That's why you call yourself that, a small man with a big voice. Yeah, that's very far. Let's just go back to where it all started. How did you get into voice coaching and just being a voice of an artist? I think I've always admired voice of an artist. I grew up listening to people with very distinct voices. People like Lerna, Mambo, Boteana. It's a very unique voice. Kenya has a lot of unique voices, voice talents and listening to radio, citizen, KBC and all those mainstream media when you're growing up. You grew up admiring the voices and wondering who really are the people behind the voices. And then I realized at a young age that I could do impressions. That is where you imitate someone's voice. You can do impressions? I can try. So when I did realize that, then I studied journalism as well. You need to do that for us. Like just like do something for us. Because that's what we were talking about in movies. Like you voice the mam, the dad. Give me the scenes, Mori. The mega scenes, Mori. Oh, jeez. I love it. I realize that I could do this while in campus. Mainly that's what I started doing it a sort of a career. I had a friend, his name is Ray Kim Graphix. He does videos for adverts and corporate explainer videos. He used to send me scripts and tell me, can you try and voice this and then realize this is something that people do. And then did research. Find people like Muakazi Kageni who are very huge on that. And people like Jennifer Kanari who has mented me for the journey. I don't know if you know Jennifer. I'm sure you've heard a voice. The person you're calling is not available. Safari call. She's one of the people that has mented me a lot. So you guys have a personal relationship. I consulted her often. Oh, that's amazing. She has also a very unique voice. It stands out among many people. If you hear her, you'll definitely know her. But the funny thing is that people who actually do voice over don't sound like that in real life. Like you would voice something and then if I put you here and the ad here, you don't sound like that in real life. I think you need to differentiate between voice acting, voice over and your normal conversational tone. Because you're given a script, you're directed, you're given directions as well. It's like an actor. You don't go putting on your character in your day to day life. You will not be working around the character. When you work, you're the individual. When you get on screen, on set, you're that character. It's the same with a voice actor. When I'm behind a microphone with the headphones, I'm a different person from the Hindi manganjia. I thought people would recognize me a bit. You were the guy that did that. I know, right? Like this one, they remember like the fiber one. It went viral. So I can imagine if that was his everyday voice. Exactly. You wouldn't work. That's true. You spoke about this when you were in campus. So what did you study? Do you have to measure anything specific if you want to be a voice actor or voice over artist when you measure in that as a career? Personally, I studied journalism. Did radio at multimedia obviously. But it's not a must for a voice actor or a voice talent to have a background in media studies or journalism. It could just be anyone. We were drawn from different careers. We had a lawyer that was a voice artist, a very huge voice artist, became a judge. He decided let me quit this, let me focus on the judge thing. So it really boils down to having the talent for it. If you have a good voice, it's natural. And then the training sessions and just understanding the dynamics of the industry. But if you have a good voice, you can be a voice actor. You can be a voice actor. No matter what you do.  What can you say are your favorite projects to voice for you? Which one are easy for you? Or you like the challenging ones? Which one can you say, when you get that, you're like, oh, this is easy. We're going to love doing this. Which one do you enjoy the most? Of course, commercials. Because commercials are very short and they pay really well. They pay a lot. So nobody wants to explain. But then I do love narrations and documentaries. It's sort of my passion. So if I want to choose, if I'm going for the money, the commercials, if I'm going for my passion, it's the narrations and documentaries. Yeah. Right. Now how do you maintain your voice? Just to make sure that it does what it's supposed to. So I'm going to start with this. My niece, just the other day they went for these performances. She's just doing school. She's in Pp1. But they went and performed. And then her school is one of those that was elected. And they were supposed to go perform for the president. So the teacher was like, let's just tell her not to eat sweets. Don't drink yoghurt. And she has taken that to the tea. So I go home, come on, kawaii down. How you bred kids. So I go to my sisters. I take her like all the sweet things. And she's like, I can't have that. I'm like, why not? We're going to sing for the president. The teacher says no. So I assume that is the same thing with you. Like when you have, you take that as a career and you take it seriously because it pays your bills. What are some of the things you can do or what are some of the healthy things you do to make sure that your voice stays the way it is? Yeah, vocal hygiene. It's like even for musicians, they do practice, they keep away from certain things. One of the things you're supposed to avoid is smoking. Of course, smoking damages your vocal cords. So if you are a smoker, if you do shisha, you need to avoid kidogo. So that if you want your voice to maintain that quality. But some people do that imagine just because they want to get a huskiness. There is that aspect, but in the long run it's going to be, you'll get the huskiness. You'll have that kefjainange voice. But then it's for a short while. If you want it for the long run, you need to keep away from smoking. You need to keep away from sugary stuff, like you said, sweets, a lot of sugar. Normally if you're going to record something, you're advised to drink warm water for your vocal cords. And just doing regular exercises, like humming, tongue rolls, tongue twisters. You guys did tongue twisters in school. We do tongue twisters today. Oh, so that you don't get the achswech. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The pita, pipa, pikta, pika, pika, all that. So do you have anything you do just right before you start recording? I was told for artists you're supposed to drink a lot of water during and just before the performance, before you go to perform, you need to keep your throat moist. It helps when you're performing. Your throat doesn't need to be dry. So for you before you record, are there some things you're supposed to do? Same, same. I always have a glass of water in the recording studio. So especially for long-form narrations and you will get to a point when your voice is dying. It's dying, yeah. It's a struggle. Replanation, yeah. Other things that I normally do is just like a regular exercise like brab, the lip rolls. Helps to, and then breathing in, breathing out helps to, you know, help you relax because you don't want to go to a script on your tense. Generally understanding your voice, understanding the script as well, normally people will hear an advert 30 seconds and think, oh, they had it so easy. Yeah, it takes forever. It can take a whole day. It can take a whole day. To get what they want. Exactly, especially if you're doing a directed session. I was doing one for Spotify and I was being directed by my producer from Nigeria and then it was through a zoom video sort of thing and had only like three lines took me close to three hours to get them right. We don't like the way you say it. I honestly understand what you mean. I've been there, I've done that. We booked the whole night just to get three sentences, right? So it makes sense. We have a lot to talk about. We still have a lot to learn. But first we take a break. We're coming right back. My name is Filin Jinn, standing in for Ibnyaga and of course I'm hanging out with the one and only DJ Harry So. And we have our guest. He is the voice of Henry Mungangi. The voice of Henry Mungangi. I didn't want to say your name. I know you have a tagline. So he goes by the voice of Henry Mungangi. Alright, let's take that break. We're coming right back. Stay with us. You're watching Isha Cute. My name is Filin Jinn, standing in for Ibnyaga. I'm with the DJ Harry So right here. And on set I'm joined by one amazing voice of artist. He goes by the voice of Henry Mungangi. Nima kasih ya? Well, I know a lot of people are tuning in and not going to join them. What is the voice of an artist? What is the voice of an acting? Maybe you can just give us a brief understanding of what that is. My layman's explanation of what voiceover is is it's part of our day-to-day life. When you walk in town, you hear people shouting, viatu, viatu... da wa mende biruboto. That guy is a voice... There's one that is very distinct, Viatunabe. Viatunabe is the same voice all over again. It's a voice, yeah. But that's voiceover. Literally any sort of voice recording that's being broadcast or layered on some video clip of some sort. And we hear it every day. It's in the commercials that are played on radio, on TV. It's in your documentaries. It's in your explainer videos. It's in the animations you watch. It's in the movie trailers. It's everywhere. But there are people behind those voices. I am one of those. Yes. Amazing. I love it. Now I know you mentioned family guy, but who are some of the people that inspire you, voiceover artists that are super great that you are inspired by? In Kenya, we have lots of people that are very talented. Like I said, Jennifer Kanari is one of those. We have Makovon Bada, who does the voice of IBC. We have guys like Ali Mongola. Mokazi. Like Mokazi. Jeff Koinange. Mainak Hageni. He looks a love of classic on a five. Yes, he's a love. This one, this guy. I forgot his name, but he's a white guy who does a lot of videos for DJs. Even for radio Africa. Yes, yes, yes. In Africa, we have the voice of a beam. I was talking about the guy from Nigeria. We have Chilulema from Zim, who is based in South Africa. Very amazing guy. There is no way you know all these people. I do. If you told me to name anyone outside Kenya apart from Hollywood, I'm going to build. I'll start. I can't imagine you have a whole list. I was privileged to be part of the voice of a conference of Africa last year. It was an opportunity to network with people that are doing similar stuff in Africa. Right now, there's a very huge focus on African voices, even with the music, Afro beats. Even voice of us, we have a lot of projects coming to Kenya from Hollywood. Of course, internationally everybody looks up to Morgan Freeman, David Attenborough. Freeman is really talented as well. I know, right? And my favourite is the calming voice of Sir David Attenborough. This is the Atacama Desert. The one who does wildlife. Yes, he does nature and wildlife. So, there are a lot of people who inspire me. Wait, there's also one for football. This one is retiring. I forgot his name but he's retiring. You've probably known Arab Uria. You know Arab Uria, the guy that does tiktoks imitating Peter Drury, the commentator. Yeah, Peter Drury. I think he's the one that is retiring. I have no idea. Let me not lie to you. I'm not a fan of Soka. I don't do football commentations but I do know Peter Drury and that there are so many amazing people that I draw inspiration from and even from right here when I was working, there's a wing for Leonard Mambo Motella. I said one of the greatest of all times when he comes to work. Yeah, one of the best ever to ever do it. It's such an inspiration to so many people. True. And I was telling you about boondogs. Yeah, the boondogs. That's the voice you were talking about. You know Regina Carter. I do know. And she voiced Huey and the brother and there's one other character. She played three characters. Funny enough, in most animations you'll find one person doing more than two, three characters and it boils down to having the talent for voice acting. Like I did a Rick and Morty impression earlier on. The guy that does both Rick and Morty Oh, he does both the characters. Yeah, and he's the guy that's written The show. The show, yeah. Wow. The co-producer. Okay, I didn't know that. I didn't know like he does both characters. What? He plays Rick and he plays Morty. Yeah, he's like the drunk grand pa. Oh jeez. Yes. There's someone who told me creatives are mad and now I understand. True. You have to be able to remind. Even talking to yourself in the booth because most of the times I'm alone in my house with my microphones and a computer it takes a mad person to do that. Mchwa kiku pata kwa zileza. I'll just go away because you know. I'm not but you. Right, and speaking of that what are some of the equipments you need like especially when you're starting over you don't have maybe like you don't have enough to make it to a studio or professional studio for recording sessions but you want to start maybe you start very small what are some of the equipments you need? A phone. If you have a phone that has a good microphone you're good to go. Good audio quality does not have to be complicated. It boils down to finding a quiet place doesn't have to be sound proof. You can use your closet. You can use your duvet, your pillows, as cushions. Anything that absorbs sound. So if you have a good quality microphone you know how to clean audio even on audio lab there are mobile applications for that but then once you've sort of advanced to maybe you have like 50 G's or 100 G's to spare you can start with a microphone, a sound card, a computer or a laptop and a digital audio workstation or audio editing software like Adobe Audition or Logic. Amazing. Because you know like as much as a phone comes in handy it also has a lot of limitations. True. You can not record during the day so you can not talk to a natureza you start and they're like gari, pikipiki, all those noises because the mic is going to peak all that. The mobile phone, microphone is not meant for fine audio recording so you can improvise I mean you can use socks to cover the mouthpiece or you can just record in the middle of the night and everyone is sleeping. And I say this purely for anyone that's a novice and you're thinking your beginner can be said you want to get into it and you're wondering how can I do it without the complicated gear. But then again once you've advanced you're getting huge projects there's need to invest in a solid studio with soundproof equipment with every microphone that are of international standards a good microphone will cost you around 50 G's to 100 G's the sun high size, the international microphone or the noiman so there are these things small details that you need to understand if you want to do it full time and that's why people even go for trainings Ya people go for training and also coaching and that's where you come in you are voice coach so who are some of the people you have already coached and how do you go about that how do people apply for that do they pay or yeah tell us take us through that so I haven't done coaching for long I started last year July because a lot of people kept approaching me and saying you've been doing this you've been seeing you do this can you help us know how to get into this and then I started sort of training friends pro bono at first and then right now we have a group it's called the Yankee and Voice Talent we have like 230 plus talents that are under me that's huge ya it's huge we have weekly meetups on Wednesdays via Google where I just give lectures free of charge on how to go about the business of voice over because it is a business on its own you need to understand the business aspect of it apart from the talent aspect of it yes you are talented but how do you manage your finances how do you send your invoices how do you make the cold calls to clients to get the jobs how do you handle your branding your marketing it's a very very important I'm so signing up people are signing up people keep joining everyday we are signing up so those who want to sign up how do they go about it look for us Yankee and Voice Talent on social media on IG there's a link or they can just reach directly once you join the link I'm there Godfather himself I love that as you wind up there's one other thing I want you to know how do you have that how do you make sure that you have that one consistent voice that when everyone or anyone hears it they know that is the voice of Mungangi how do you make sure that because you can have you can be amazing at it but you have different voices the way you sound here is not how you sound here but if you need to have that consistency what do you do one is quality builds down to quality audio first of all if you're going to record with any project doesn't matter how much the client is paying you you need to understand that whatever project you're putting out there is going to represent you as a brand so if you've taken a project you have a really and you say let me use the phone to record this one of course it's going to sound different than if it was recorded on a road microphone or any other type of microphone so if you want consistency and people to identify with your voice use quality microphones use standard microphones all your projects the other thing is giving it your all I would say just give every project your all whether it's a low budget high budget sometimes you do projects free to just get yourself out there even on your auditioning because people need to understand that you also audition you don't learn the job Henry Mungangi is a voice artist let's give him the job there are so many people that are talented it's like acting everybody knows who he is but he's still auditioning you still have to go to audition exactly even in voice over talents will get lots and lots of auditions so if you want to stand out just ensure quality deliver your best the rest will come exactly I want to know one thing as we wind up I tell you we're winding up what has been the highest playing job you've ever received what was it all about it was a commercial I don't know if I'm at liberty to say for whom you don't have to mention your brand you signed non disclosure agreements it was a commercial that paid me around $2,000 for one job and it was amazing among voices.com people need to understand that you don't have your clients will come from all over the world so if you get an international client they'll pay international standards but there are jobs that have done so people can sign up for voices.com if you want to get it's a free platform but if you need exclusive membership of course you pay I think $500 per year okay $500 for Kenyan right now Naim Chumi is not I don't know okay not even $4.60 because Naim Chumi is not but if you want jobs you need money to get money Thank you so much for coming through I know you have a parting short probably maybe inspire just people who are just coming up they don't know how to go about all this you can probably just tell them something and also tell us something anything you want to tell us First of all I want to shout out all the members of the Young Kenyan Voice Talent and the members of the Voice Actors League of Kenya which is like Jennifer Kanari Jasmine Street the founders of the Voice Actors League of Kenya been very instrumental in my journey the first major jobs that I got commercial jobs last year was through the Voice Actors League of Kenya then for those that want to you know pursue voice over as a career what I advise you to do is to seek information it's out there literally we live in an age where all skills on YouTube skills on the internet and you have access to people coaches and people that have years of experience and the best time to get started is today don't postpone it take a book, take your bible whatever script you have in the room record it listen to yourself have someone else listen to it get the feedback repeat Practice makes perfect and of course thank you so much for coming through would love to have you some other time to shed more light on this it's not a career a lot of people have ventured into and I feel like it's something that people can actually explore right alright so if you have any shout outs in your social media this is also the time to do that alright I'm actually going for a meeting with the animator Society of Kenya because we have exciting animation projects coming up and I want to shout out to the animation society of Kenya I didn't even know there is animation society of Kenya now we know photographer society of Kenya shout out to the unclean voice talent Muriti Nyaga my family if you want to find me the voice of Henry Mungange across all social media platforms the voice of Henry Mungange so if you have a project known as Afika Bay hit him up if you want to know more about voice acting about being a voice of an artist make sure you follow him at the voice of Henry Mungange and of course thank you so much for stopping by we do appreciate that we love it come next time tell us about all these things come on Kenya association of animators there are so many associations we love to know all that alright just a little message let me talk to the guys at home


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