I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.
My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.
I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.
From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.
My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.
I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.
I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.
I was the singing boy in school.