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Bruce Carey

Bruce Carey (March 10th) is an American film, television, stage and commercial voice actor. He has appeared on episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger starring Chuck Norris, originally on CBS and then on USA Network and Action in Canada. He has played opposite Coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) on NBC Universal Friday Night Lights (TV series), a syndicated TV show called The Judge (TV series), and Sc-fi movie Stealth Hunters.

Family:

His father, Pep Sinton attended Lincoln High School in Lincoln, Nebraska with Johnny Carson and hosted a TV show in the local access time before the Tonight Show on KOLN-TV. He also marketed Nuclear radiated vegetable seeds through Oak Ridge Atom Industries, Oak Ridge, TN, where research for the Manhattan Project was done. His mother, Mattye is a graduate of New York University and former co-captain of the NYU women's field hockey team. He and his two brothers, Steve Sinton and Jon Sinton have all been involved in media for decades. Steve Sinton starting in Progressive radio and building a career in Philadelphia (WYSP, WMMR) and Washington D.C. (DC101), eventually running for U.S. Congress in the 6th district of Georgia in 2006. Jon Sinton worked with Burkhart/Abrams, NBC, and MTV. Sinton was also the first President of Air America Radio Network.

Early Life:

He started performing at age 8, doing impressions, then moving to children's theater and local television. He studied character analysis with Ron Fadley in Columbus, Ohio, then later got into character work on the radio at WLUP radio, The Loop in Chicago, KCBQ, San Diego and landing at ABC Radio (1990-1995) with a show that was fed to 61 markets in 5 time zones. Eventually he became Operations Manager of the Classic Rock Network for ABC. He also writes comedy and did standup for year in the late 80's at The Improv in Dallas.

Radio Career:

In Summer 1968, at the age of 16, with brother Steve, built WSIN-AM, a bootleg radio station on the edge of the Ohio State University campus, eventually prompting FCC intervention and destruction of the station.

In 1971-72, his first commercial radio job at WCOL-FM, Columbus, OH, an early progressive Rock station. On-air interviews: Cheech & Chong in support of their 1st album tour. Also, Ted Nugent and Peter, Paul and Mary.

19-73-76 Moved to San Francisco and attended College of Marin music school, studied guitar privately with Walter V. Ulner of Santa Venetia, who played in Tommy Dorsey's Band.

1976 First Program Director job at KXFM-FM, an alum-oriented Rock station in Santa Maria, CA.

1977-79 KAZY/Denver, Production Director. Also engineered and produced a series of live broadcasts from the Rainbow Music Hall featuring artists like The Police, Joe Jackson, Talking Heads and Pat Benetar.

1980-82 WLUP/Chicago, Midday Host. "The Loop" presented concerts by Led Zeppelin and The Who hosted by Loop personalities including Bruce Carey. Carey interviewed bands like Heart and many others.

1982-1986 KCBQ-FM/San Diego, a Country music station, where he was evening personality.

1987-90 "Bruce & Scott in the Morning" KZEW/The Zoo Dallas. With his partner, Scott Parkin, hosted guests Larry Miller, Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, Paula Poundstone, Brad Garrett and other comedy club headliners of the day.

1990-95 ABC Radio Networks, Operations Manager first of The Wave, a New Age music network, then oversaw the Launch of ABC's new Classic Rock Networks and hosted a morning show that was fed to 61 markets in five time zones. Working with the father of Album-oriented Rock Lee Abrams for five years. He interviewed Chuck Norris promoting the movies "Sidekicks" at ABC Radio.

After leaving ABC Networks in 1995, he formed Voices Carey, LLC a creative firm based in Dallas, Texas, working with 7-11, McDonald's, Miller Brewing Co., U.S. Navy and The Mayo Clinic.

Later Career:

From 1995 to the early 2000's, he became most well known for voice over. He studied with Dick Orkin of L.A.'s Radio Ranch, then took improvisational acting with Randy Bennett, an early member of the seminal L.A. improv group, The Groundlings.

He also does animation characters and anime voices for shows like Fullmetal Alchemist recorded at Funimation. He's the voice of the Slurpee Story for 7-11. The voice of God's messenger on the show Everyday Life on the American Life Network.

He is the voice of numerous talking profiles of world social, political and financial figures such as Jack Nicklaus, Trevor Manuel and John Thain at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C.

He has performed in or produced commercials, narrations and videos for various medical facilities such as Trinity Mother Francis Health Systems, the Cleveland Clinic and DaVinci Robotic surgery for Methodist Health System.

Voices Carey, LLC

Voices Carey is full-service boutique creative house established in 1995 By Bruce Carey. The company offers a range of services from Creative Writing to voice over recordings.