Voice Over Marketer RoyGray.Com Gets a Boost from Telma Hopkins

World famous Hollywood star Telma Hopkins, best known for her role as Aunt Rachel on "Family Matters," has some kind words that boost the spirits of popular weekend radio personality and Charity Music spokesperson Roy Gray

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) December 4, 2008 -- The words of a popular Hollywood star have boosted the voice-over demand for a radio disc jockey.

When Legendary Actress Telma Hopkins, who is currently doing a Mike Myers Film called "The Love Guru," with Justin Timberlake, Jessica Alba, Sir Ben Kingsley, Meagan Goode, Mike Myers and a host of others, finished her co-hosting role at The 2007 Black Business Expo Concert, and sat beside Radio's Roy Gray for an interview that was broadcast recently in over 30 different countries, the kind words she would later say about Gray would boost Gray's voice-over career.

Gray, according to voice-over agent Kathy Hanson, "bowled over Telma with his voice."

Now comes word that Gray has been selected as the music-on-hold and waiting room voice for Dr. Raffy Karamanoukian, who is a famed plastic surgeon and skin specialist practicing in Santa Monica, California. Dr. K's office specializes in cosmetic plastic surgery of the face and body.

The saga continues.

"You're lookin' beautiful, by the way, Telma," said Gray.

Gray has made many on-the-air statements over the last two years or so, asking women to change their names to 'Brenda' and lightheartedly remarked recently that he would not mind at all if Telma were to change her name to Brenda, Gray's estranged wife.

(The real Brenda Gray could not resist Gray's recent charming invitation and saw a movie and enjoyed a pizza party with her husband and talented son, a singer who once said "I Love You" to his dad at the unbelievable age of 6 months and who will get to tap into his dad's multiple record-biz contacts, only after the junior Gray graduates from the university he is now attending. Gray says his son is also a talented sketch/comic artist and creative writer, who began writing short books, along with singing, at 2 years old. Gray frequently reminds his kid that he is a gifted young man and should continue to utilize his brilliance to help others.)

"The answer would probably not be "no" if Telma were to call and ask to make a quick trip to the radio station to hand over the name-change documents and announce the engagement over a carefully selected music bed of inspirational jazz," quipped the married-but-separated Gray, who is expecting to also broadcast the Hopkins interview soon on Soul 73, KKDA Radio in Dallas, TX, America's 5th largest radio market, where Legendary Blues Great Ernie Johnson, who recently called Gray's agent to laud Gray's comprehensive "Williams Brothers" report, is securing final approvals to air Gray's "Koncert Konnection" 5-minute radio feature, which is available to a maximum of 10 radio stations via syndication. The number of stations will be limited to allow Gray to optimize service to the various stations while continuing to pursue his full-time corporate marketing goals.

(Hanson was treated to a special "Radio Syndication Thank You" dinner recently, for her success with KKDA and ongoing talks with other great stations in other radio markets.)

Gray spends an estimated 35 hours per week, rarely taking vacations, writing and producing self-formatted radio programs for syndication, and feels Roy's Koncert Konnection is showing promising signs of being the unique announcer's first big syndication hit. Gray has also asked Hanson to devote considerable energy to helping him land several lucrative TV voice over jobs in 2008.

"I plan to talk to Actor Alfonso Freeman, who has a wonderfully jazzy album that I play on the radio each week and whose movie with his dad Morgan Freeman and Jack hits theatres in December, about getting me some prop guys to put an oak tree in the middle of the press area, so that soon-to-be-birthday-girl Telma, who told me she just finished working with Dule Hill on the USA Network's 'Psyche,' which comes on after 'Monk,' can kick open the doors and belt out two and one half verses of 'Tie A Roy Gray Ribbon...Round A Billion Dollar Spot.' "Then I'll announce that Telma Hopkins, the self-styled Motown baby who sang with The Four Tops on 'Reach Out, I'll Be There' and 'Bernadette'...plus Marvin's 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine'...is becoming Brenda Hopkins-Gray," said Gray, who is sticking to his story that Hopkins, who starred in 'Bosom Buddies' with Tom Hanks, 'Gimmie A Break' with Nell Carter, 'Family Matters' (with Reginald VelJohnson, JoMarie Payton, Kellie Shanygne Williams, Darius McCrary, Jaleel White and Rosetta LeNoire) and is back in syndication with the return of the show 'Half & Half,' exclaimed after the interview, "Does Roy have a great voice or what!?"

Gray, who is no longer accepting offers from potential weight-loss sponsors due to the success of his vigorous tennis/ab workout regimen and intense diet, also claims Hopkins later made a radio promo reenacting her flattering comment about Gray, whose cousin Michael Gray was the singing voice of "Fat Albert" on Bill Cosby's "Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids" cartoon series.

"The kicker is...Telma did the radio promo, which is played about once a minute, with the same flavor with which she made the kind comment off the air, with a slight twist of 'Aunt Rachel' attitude," said Gray, exclaiming, "When listeners catch the promo on the air, they will hear that Telma's pitch, power and pace are a perfect fit! Now that's chemistry! Telma's people really should call to talk about a Telma and Roy daytime television talk show or something!

"There would not be a problem doing the TV talk thing with Telma, while keeping all current commitments and continuing the relentless pursuit cf success in the corporate marketing world!"

Gray, whose agent is giving away Gray's free "job interview" practice CDs to homeless shelters, thought better of asking the feisty star to say his name like Hopkins said "Shaft's" name on Isaac Hayes' song of the same title.

Hanson was delighted to hear "Irkle's Next Door Neighbor" make such a nice comment about her client.

"It was just so cool of Telma to say what she said (about Gray), both off and on the mike," said Hanson, who gets an above average 50% of all commercial work she arranges for Gray. Hanson often tells potential voice-over clients and radio guests, "Just wait 'til you hear Roy!"

Listeners to Gray's universal radio program recently heard the friendly disc jockey respond to Hopkins' generous comment by saying, "All right, Telma, keep it up and I'll really have to ask for that name change!"

Gray thinks the stunningly beautiful Hopkins is incredibly talented and loves the fact that the work ethic Hopkins displays mirrors his own. Hopkins told Gray, who had to lean in close to catch the well-modulated tones of the freshly scented celebrity over the sounds of the concert, "I was blessed to be raised by a grandmother who told me that I could be anything I wanted to be, do anything I wanted to do, as long as I was willing to work hard for it. And because she didn't put in the negatives...You know...You can't do this, because you're a woman or you're Black..I never allowed that to hold me back," Hopkins said into the ear of Gray, really gelling with the challenge-conquering Gray when Hopkins added, "So everything I came across that was a challenge for me...It was just a reason for me to back up and find a crack that I could get through."

Hopkins hopes more women can now get through the proverbial doors.

"I hope I've opened the door enough so some other women can come behind me," continued Hopkins, "But it's really just hard work...And believing in yourself, and not allowing anyone else to define what your dreams should be or what you wanna do; if you want to do it, then go about doing it."

Gray is celebrating Hopkins' work ethic with a contest.

"The first ten people who call the radio shout-out line at area code 949-677-8599 and give a shout out to Telma, correctly naming every TV character that this hard working legend has played will get to be a guest telephone disk jockey on one of the upcoming six-hour jazz shows," said the hombre who used to refer to himself as the most humble man on the radio.

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