I have a brilliant singing voice with practically no limitations. I want to be able to use it for a bit of spare cash (I can't get normal people to perform with me or anything cuz I'm out of peoples' leagues!). I live in Ireland...I don't know where to go if I want to try to get jobs singing jingles for commercials!
2007-02-12 05:57:43 · 7 answers · asked by Chasey Lane 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
call up bmi or ascap.
2007-02-12 06:06:22 · answer #1 · answered by Spicoli 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-22 22:40:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Singing Jingles
2016-12-11 15:08:54 · answer #3 · answered by scutt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to be able to read music. With jingle singing a singer is booked, given a few minutes to look over the music, told about the concept of the commercial and the recording is done then and there within a few hours at most.
Most jingle singing in the US is all about being part of a specific clique so I can't speak for how it is in Ireland. Find out which studios that are accessible to you record commercial jingles and start off with local commercials if you can't get the national ones right off. The singers who start off locally usually wind up graduating, if you will, to doing regional and national ads.
If you can record a demo of yourself singing existing jingles that will go a long way toward getting you in the business. Send them out to studios with a cover letter indicating you're interested in jingle work. Sending them to advertising agencies can be helpful but many of them don't actually book the vocal talent themselves.
Lastly...and I say this only as constructive criticism and tell all my singing students the same thing...tone down the ego. Studio engineers and producers don't HAVE to work with you if they don't want to. There are hundreds of singers out there who want to do what you do and you'll go a lot farther being a bit more humble. It may not be because you're a "brilliant" singer that no one wants to work with you.
2007-02-12 06:14:06 · answer #4 · answered by Chanteuse_ar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll need a demo CD. Find a vocal coach in London or Dublin, or wherever there is some entertainment industry, and ask them what should be on the demo, and will they coach you. Once you have a coach, you will make some samples on the CD and submit it to jingle agents. You may have to hunt around for them, since they get bombarded with new people all the time.
Good luck, and try to refrain from telling people that you are out of their league.
2007-02-12 07:48:03 · answer #5 · answered by Year of the Monkey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most jingle singers keep those jobs for years. They don't give them up.
2007-02-12 07:37:38 · answer #6 · answered by newyorkgal71 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did once before, a long time ago. They had funny looks on their faces plus they kept turning their heads to different sides trying to understand where the dogs were
2016-03-18 02:06:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋