* Bolabad is an on-air personality and event host, when and how did you venture into voiceover?
It seems a natural progression for a lot of people who work in radio, especially people involved in radio production/creative services. I ventured into Voiceover playfully actually, and that was in 2018, I got an advert script to voice for a particular bank at my previous place of work, I read the script, and just went with the flow, I did not even listen to the finished work before leaving the office, later that day, a colleague of mine who had played the material on his show called me and told me to go add voiceover artist to my bio, and that was it and have been doing really well.
* Do you have a speciality in voicework or do you do several types?
I’ve built a base of promo-imaging retainer work from TV and radio stations, which has me voicing promos, IDs, campaign’s and the likes for them. Where the glamour is in the VO business: commercials, promo work. Of course, most people prefer the glam stuff, so they concentrate on that. I prefer to make a living, so I do a bit of everything,I know my area of speciality and I do well in it.
* Is voiceover profitable in Ibadan.
I would say relatively yes, because you can be in Ibadan and earn a living as a voiceover artist, but your tentacles have to reach further than Ibadan. Also, it depends on you as a voiceover artist and the kind of client you attract. Some people still do voiceover for 5k in 2023! while some do the same voiceover for 100k in this same Ibadan. Its the quality you can offer that matters.
* Do you have your personal equipments?
For now, no. But I have a producer have been working with and he does a fantastic job, I am also in between learning production and maybe I am done, I will set up a home studio fully soon, that’s the plan though.
* For those considering the VoiceOver business, do you have any particular bit of advice?
You just have to be practical. It’s a business. It takes money, planning, training, and some semblance of discipline to operate, stay solvent, and maybe even make a living at it.
