Radio personality Carol Ofori is over the moon after bagging the SOVAS Voice Arts Award in the Outstanding Commercial — Radio or Streaming — Best African Voiceover category.
Carol won the award for her performance in the Ratings For Schools radio advert flighted on East Coast Radio.
The media personality has cemented herself as a standout voiceover artist with decades of experience in the voice arts field. She is the voice behind a number of radio and television adverts as well as the official voice behind one of the largest radio stations in the country.
In a statement shared with TshisaLIVE, a thrilled Carol said she’s pleased her hard work has been recognised on an international stage.
“Winning this award feels surreal.”
“I can’t believe that a little old me all the way in Durban South Africa is winning an international award. I really am humbled and I am still pinching myself.”
Previous winners at the SOVAS Voice Arts® Awards include Sigourney Weaver, Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett, Kit Harrington and Kristin Wiig.
“To think that legends like the great Mufasa voice James Earl Jones, Avatar star Sigourney Weaver and Men In Black star Rosario Dawson all have this award, and that the same statue will be displayed in my home is surreal. I am truly humbled and an international award like this just makes me want to keep on working harder, bring more statues home and chase even bigger dreams,” she said.
The Voice Arts® Awards is uniquely designed to honour the community of performers and craft professionals who perform, direct, produce, cast, engineer and publish media productions where voice acting is a central creative element of the work. The purpose of the Voice Arts® Awards is to provide a stage for international acknowledgment of the extraordinary skill and artistry that goes into voice-over acting and to hold up an evolving best-in-class standard of achievement to which the voice-over industry can continually aspire.
The awards are similar to the Oscars, Emmys and Tonys, where the work is entered in various categories, judged and scored by a panel of industry experts, and where the top 5 scores in each category become nominees. A final round of judging determines the winner in each category.
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