Merlên's signature voice style is documentary/narration and narrative series (e-Learning). That's where her natural voice lives. She is also a "Certified Medical Narration Specialist" who has also voiced commercials and jingles in Japanese, French and English. Voice coaches and clients describe her voice as "alluring, very nurturing, calm, storytelling, elegant, unique, flirty, sexy" with a sense of "wonderment, inquisitiveness and soothing tones."
A TCK ("Third-Country-Kid") from an inter-cultural marriage raised in a multi-lingual home in an international city (Tokyo), Merlên's higher education was in universities in Australia, France, Russia and USA. Her voiceactor/TV news anchorman father had her reading into a tape recorder from the age of 4, and she did her first radio spot at age 7. As a youngster, her voice was used in language learning tapes (to teach English) in Japan. As an adult, she has lived and worked in over 30 cities across 4 continents in both hemispheres; as a result, her natural accent in English is rather unique, a bit hard-to-place, and easily understood by non-native English speakers across the globe. She can speak English with many accents including North American, southern, neutral, French, Japanese, Filipino, and Russian. (She also speak those languages, among a few others.) In French she can do a Parisian accent, an American accent, and a south of France accent.
Merlên worked as on-camera talent at JCTV in Tokyo (today called CNN) performing live-on-air doing local and international news, local and international weather, events, topics and flight information, plus other local programs, all of which included writing her own scripts, selecting video clips and graphics, and performing them live with perfect timing, to the second.
She likes singing jingles, takes direction well, and works from a broadcast-quality home recording studio based in Denmark.
Rogers Communication International (Tokyo, Japan), Tokyo International Players (acting), Doordomskaya Comedy Improv Group (Moscow, Russia), Andrew Carlton vo coaching (Sydney, Australia), Anthony Grgas and other acting coaches at The Actor's Studio (Sydney, Australia), Mirren Lee acting coach (Sydney, Australia), VoiceActing Academy Graduate (8-week course) in 2004 (San Diego, CA), Pat Fraley, Ed Asner, Marc Cashman, Peter D. at GFTB, and Larry Hudson (audio editing). Private coaching with: Shelley Avellino, Nancy Wolfson (Los Angeles), Jim Alburger and Penny Abshire (San Diego), Deb Munro (Canada), Julie Williams (medical and commercial), Peter Rofé (NYC), Melody Jones (NYC), and continues on-going voice coaching as well as weekly copy workout sessions. She is a Graduate of the Voice Acting Foundations Certificate Program at George Brown College (Toronto) and holds a BA in Broadcast Journalism plus a Diploma in Phonetics (Paris III, La Sorbonne).
On-camera talent at JCTV in Tokyo (local and international news, topix, events, local and international weather, etc.), Master of Ceremony at various events, DJ and Karaoke Host DJ in Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
Yodobashi Camera Jingle, Voice for Several Internet Marketing videos, KFC Japan, Fujitsu Pocket Bell (Japan National TV CM and jingle), Sonopac news and language tapes (English), various television ads for JCTV (Tokyo), Tesla IVR in French, Signature Travel Club, Frontier Enterprises movie dubbing of Japanese films and cartoons into English and French for Japan Airlines, Kevin Kiley Associates (corporate narration)
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