Best International Voice in a Foreign Language - Nominee
Festival Viva Voz 2024, Colombia
Fifth edition of the Ibero-American voice festival Viva Voz,
a meeting celebrating excellence and innovation in the voice industry
Demos
About
Elisa Toro Franky tells the story of a brand, engages their audience, educates their employees, and guides their followers on unexplored journeys with just the sound of her voice. Elisa’s voiceover brand, Voice Dancer, has charmed multiple clients with a charisma and versatility that is matched only by the responsiveness and accuracy with which she delivers. Elisa is a professional dancer whose embodied ability to take directions translates to her voiceover craft in the prompt adaptation to a client’s vision. This makes working with her an excellent choice. Let Elisa bring your script to life today!
Elisa Toro Franky is the Voice Dancer, New York-based professional dancer and bilingual voiceover artist originally from Bogotá, Colombia. She is a SAG-AFTRA member and is the voice of Walmart and Giant Supermarkets commercials in TV, as well as radio campaigns for Target, Metro PCS, Vicks, Helzberg Diamonds, and more. Elisa has been the voice of non-profit organizations like Westchester Ballet Company and Accent Dance NYC, and the narrator of PSA and healthcare explainer videos for United Healthcare, Ad Council, the New York Department of Health, Virginia Department of Health, BrainQ, and animated educational series by Gonoodle.
Elisa is coached by some of the top leaders in the voiceover industry, including casting director Tina Morasco; Rona Fletcher, territory controller of Gravy for the Brain LATAM; and René Figueroa, director of Academia ECO in Bogotá, Colombia.
My Insights
"As the Voice Dancer, I believe the art of the voice is a physical and sensory experience that resembles dancing. As a professional dancer of more than 15 years of experience performing in a diverse range of dance genres with New York based companies and beyond, I transfer my cultivated awareness of movement to create similar sensations in the tone, texture, rhythm, and melody of my voice.
In the same way that I efficiently apply choreographers' prompts to deliver the desired qualities as a dancer, as a voice actress I am very responsive to clients' direction in recording sessions and their feedback reflects their satisfaction with my service.
Photo: Jaqlin Medlock for FJK Dance
Similarly to how I act with my body to create characters in dance, I act with my voice to speak from a place of truthfulness or naturalness.
And yet, since equilibrium entails the reconciliation of opposites, I find balance between recording inside my home studio where I can only speak but not move much, and running outside to move and dance in larger spaces but without speaking much!
While the dance is a visible yet nonverbal expression of one's stories, the voice is an audible yet invisible expression of one's inner dynamics."
Elisa, Voice Dancer
Dancer website: www.elisatorofranky.com
Strengths
My skills as a voice actress plus my technical knowledge enable me to help clients with high quality demanding projects.
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In-person recording sessions at any studio within the New York City area
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Outstanding customer relations and effective communication
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Native Latin American Spanish neutral with exceptional diction
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Native Colombian accent
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Bilingual and Fluent in English
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Versatility in tones and techniques
