The Apiary Studio

Hi, I’m Debbie. I have a BA in Music, and can read music. I have been doing a cappella arrangements since 1990. I received a certificate in the theory and practice of audio recording in 1992 (wow, remember cutting tape with razor blades?).

I’ve always been a techy geeky singer. I was the only 7-year-old I knew (in 1979) with an impression of Patti LuPone’s Evita. My prized possession from ages 4 through 12 was a Dictaphone cassette recorder. I still have the tapes of my many childhood interviews and “radio shows.”

By the time I was a teen, the Dictaphone made me painfully aware of my Nassau County, Long Island accent. I watched a lot of Monty Python and worked hard to pronounce all the letters in a word. I can bring back the New Yawk accent as a character.

During college, I sang in and music directed the Amalgamates, the only co-ed a cappella group at Tufts (at the time). I arranged dozens of songs for male and female voices. I also performed in the Renaissance Music Ensemble, had a variety of mezzo soprano solos with the choir, and was the Sorceress in the school production of Dido and Aeneas.

By the end of college, I had built my first home recording studio. I recorded my voice over and over and over and over, taking a few pages from the Todd Rundgren school of layering. I did my own arrangements and sang all the parts into a Tascam 688 MidiStudio.

I spent 2016 taking a mountain of voiceover classes in commercial, narration, and character at VoiceOne in San Francisco. I was known for having a spectrum of diction and articulation from crisp and precise to a bit more casual and conversational, where letters aren’t that crisp, to the fast-talking, letter-removing Long Island accent.

I’m not represented by any agency nor am I in any union.