POCHOLOGY GONZALES

POCHOLOGY 101

Pocholo "THE VOICEMASTER" Gonzales is a Filipino voice actor whose voiceover work has appeared in radio and TV commercials, audio dramas, children's programs, computer games, dubbed foreign telenovelas, films and anime, and original animation. He conducts voice-acting workshops and runs a full-service voiceover production company, Creativoices Productions www.creativoices.com and an events company called CreativEvents Management. He also works as a voice director for HERO TV,[1] and is Executive Producer of Voice of the Youth TV,[2] the only TV program dedicated to young Filipino voice talents. He did the voice of Toti (a Manananggal) and Hal An (a villain) in his first full length digital animation movie Dayo: Sa Mundo ng Elementalia, an entry in the Metro Manila Film Festival produced by Cutting Edge Productions[3]. He's also a Filipino Personal Branding Expert and Strategic Alliances Guru and so far speak to more than 100 schools and universities around the world. Career and works Gonzales has worked as a voice actor since 1996, when, at age 17, he won the voice acting competition of DZMM's Drama and Singing Contest Radyo Radyo with Joey Galvez and May Valle. He graduated from UP Diliman with a BA in Speech Communication and took up his Master's Degree in Broadcast Communications. Under Tinig Kabataan or Voice of the Youth (VOTY), an advocacy organization he and several friends founded, he also anchored the only youth advocacy radio program at DZME. In May 1998, Gonzales was chosen by legendary Rene O. Villanueva, Creative Director of Philippine Children's Television Foundation Inc. Batibot to do voices for its puppets and program. In January 2006, Creative Programs Inc. hired him as Voice Dubbing Director for HERO TV and Cinema One, the first exclusive channel for Tagalog-dubbed anime. His credits include Voice Director, Writer, Translator and Voice Actor for "8 Man After", "Demon Lord Dante", "Offside", "Bokura Ga Ita", "Shura No Toki", "Ursula's Kiss", "Negima 2", "Negima Movies", "Black Jack", "The Grudge", "My Brother's Wife", "Nishi no Yoki Majo" and "Black Jack". Gonzales has dubbed voices for thousands of hours of animation, including such titles as Gundam Seed Destiny, Wedding Peach, Soul Hunter, Negima, Cromartie High, Super Doll Licca, MegaMan, The Twins at St. Clare’s, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Digimon, Jumanji, Detective Conan, Wing Commander, and Cyborg Kuro-Chan, among others. He has also dubbed voices for Latin and Taiwanese soap opera