Bill Summers’ voice was destined to be heard – over airwaves, telephones, over throngs of shoppers, across TV land and the world. His father, who worked for RCA, brought it all home to young Bill – the power, the presence, the future – that would be his.
“My father used to bring home cool gadgets like all the new tape recorders, all the new radios, so I was always playing disc jockey down in the basement as a kid. My brother is an anchorman. My whole family has been involved in broadcasting in some form.”
After his youthful DJ days and, later, studies at County College of Morris, Bill moved to San Antonio to manage KBRN, the family radio station. He met his future wife, Susan, and began doing commercials for radio and television. Thus was Bill Summers born into the exciting world of broadcast media.
When the couple returned to New Jersey, Bill became a DJ at WRNJ in Hackettstown. He and the station’s owner started Please Hold of America, producers of on-hold message tapes for business. Bill owns the company now as part of Summers Communications, Inc., which also produces radio, TV, and in-store commercials.
While building his production company, Bill disc jockeyed at WYNY and, later, Nassau-owned 106.3 and WNNJ in Sussex County, NJ. In 2002, Bill struck out on his own. His digital studio enables him to work from home quickly and efficiently. (Check out Bill in his studio. PHOTO)
Bill’s lively gift for animation came to fruition in 2005 with How Machines Work, an Indiana-based web development company that produced technical instructional videos. He developed voices for the video’s cartoon characters. Recently, his voicing of Gary the Guitar rounds out his multi-instrument learning CD series for Seattle-based eMedia Music Corp. (How Machines Work)
Bill does dialogue replacement for cartoons for Everest Productions, a Turkey-based television network, with a US presence in Somerset, NJ. You can see the face behind the voice on Everest’s Ebru TV where Bill anchors the Evening News.
Today, Bill Summers’ talent extends globally. From New Jersey boardrooms, film production in Texas, California agriculture commercials, to Turkey-based TV and the World Wide Web, Bill Summers’ voice is the perfect voice for today’s media.
Bill lives in Sparta with his wife, Susan, an elementary school music teacher. He is also a musician and currently plays drums with Eight Days of Blues, a rockin’ blues band.
Training
- Pamela Lewis' Talking Funny for Money New York master class
- Voice Over Unlimited Workshops
- Acting-A-Part Bootcamps
- Otto Salamon Acting & Improv classes
- 30 years of producing and voiceing radio commercials
