John Cavanagh

John Cavanagh is a professional voice over artist and broadcaster with over 20 years experience in both fields. In 2014, John's voice has been heard by over three billion TV viewers worldwide in his role as stadium Announcer at the Sochi Olympic & Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Although Scottish, he can mimic many different voices to produce different character and dialect styles in rapid succession. With a three octave vocal range for singing, John's voice is readily able to encompass a wide age range in speech terms: from young, lively adult with a hard-sell style to elderly sounding voice parts; assorted monsters in a fantasy tale to the sound of vintage Russian radio for a stage play. The first voiceover he recorded was for a Sony Records TV campaign back in 1991. His enthusiasm remains undimmed for projects as diverse as hard edged TV and radio commercials to narrating documentaries on sensitive subjects such as war and even the work of a mortuary service. Cavanagh is one of the few people to have broadcast for all five BBC UK radio networks, from hosting the Monsters of Rock Festival on Radio One to a series on opera for Radio Three, along with World Service/BBC International, BBC Radio Scotland, working as a TV & radio continuity announcer and newsreader and 14 seasons voicing the Classified Football Results on BBC1 TV in Scotland, which led to a collaboration with Turner Prize nominee Simon Patterson for the Tate Modern Gallery in London.