What did you say your name was?

Never mind. But while we both try to remember, let me raise a glass to your health in a lovely little restaurant in Naples (at the very same table where Giorgio Armani sat, though not wearing such a stylish bib as mine). What can I say in my defense? Only that my voice has been described as warm, classy, well-rounded, hilarious, smooth, sexy and "chocolatey" (mmm!!!) But before you start to laugh, as I did, please listen to my commercial for Solero Ice Cream.

     What else can I say? That my character range stretches from 12 years to 60+years, and I'm a very decent actor, with tons of experience on commercials, news, documentaries, product-placing and dubbing (I am the Master of Lip-Synch) as well as cartoons, radio drama and computer games.

     And that I have more than twenty years of experience as a DJ and Anchorman, and dozens of continental campaigns for Gillette, the BBC, HSBC, Johnnie Walker, Nickelodeon, United Artists, Kodak, Sauza Tequila, Oracle, Bacardi, Samsung and FIFA among many others.

     In English I have recorded very successful campaigns for the likes of Toyota, Old El Paso, Kellogg's, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, MinuteMaid and Firestone, to name a few. That's why I'm making a toast in Naples, and again in the Mediterranean splendour of Nice! Cheers--here's to the success of YOUR projects!

 

     PS: The name "Fountain of Gold" comes from a spontaneous comment that someone left on YouTube on seeing my Doritos commercial: "Who's the Spanish dude? He's amazing!!! HIS MOUTH IS A FOUNTAIN OF GOLD!!" (There is no doubt that there are still people with taste and discernment in this world).

Here follows another madcap commercial for Old El Paso, introducing a new salsa:

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Algunos créditos:

Google

BBC Radio & TV

MTV

Gillette

HSBC Bank

Kellogg's

EMI Records

McDonald's

Kodak

Goodyear

FIFA

Microsoft

Blackberry

British Museum, London

Tate Modern, London

Royal Academy of Art, London

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Art Institute of Chicago

Whitney Museum of Art, New York

Channel 4

ITV

Sky Sports

ESPN

Shell

Samsung

British Airways

Swissair

United Artists

Paramount 

Pictures

UNICEF

Discovery Channel

P&O Cruises

Rolex

VO5 Shampoo

Toyota

Burger King

MinuteMaid

Bacardí

Nickelodeon

Berlitz

Oxford U Press

Macmillan

Tequila Sauza

Amnesty International

Open University

Johnnie Walker

Ballantine's

Coca-Cola

United Distillers

Mobil Oil

PokerStars

Eukanuba

Antenna Audio

Acoustiguide

IMG

CommonCraft

Corning

Oracle

Diageo

HM Customs&Excise

Novell

Kimberly-Clark

Zen Works

Netflix

British Aerospace

General Electric

Cisco

Nestea

...and counting!

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