doug robertson

Once described as the “one take wonder boy”, Melbourne’s Doug Robertson is mostly recognizable for his fun, fast and friendly retail reads and has voiced commercials to everything from football and meat pies to (the) Kangaroos and Holden Cars.

After falling in love with his grandfathers reel to reel recorder at the age of seven, Doug continued to hone his acting, mimicry and singing skills, throwing himself into the frivolity of the high school musical and later gained entry to Adelaide’s renowned Flinders University Drama Centre. During the late eighties Doug became a fixture on the amateur theatre circuit, playing anything from Shakespeare to British farce, developing a keen sense of drama and comic timing.

Moving to Melbourne in 1991, Doug became a founding member of Melbourne’s “regal kings of power pop”, Icecream Hands. After two ARIA nominations and four albums, Doug is well known by industry and fans alike for his lush vocal harmony arrangements, pitch and tone. Having recently been “outed” as a singer, Melbourne’s airwaves have begun to jingle with Doug’s dulcet tones.

During a brief stint in the country, Doug got a foot in the door of a regional television network, and refused to remove it until he was allowed to read a commercial for them. When they finally gave in, and seeing his natural ability, they quickly took him on, and Doug began to cut his teeth on tractors, irrigation and bovine worming treatments, sometimes reading up to 15 ads in a session whilst affecting the voice of a farmer, a schoolboy, and a station announcer 20 years his senior!

Since then, Doug has delivered easy going, urgent, lightning fast and measured, silly, serious and listenable reads to hundreds of high profile corporate clients and small businesses all over Australia including Sony, Artline, AFL, Holden, Warner Bros, Mazda, Pepsi and Telstra to name just a handful.

“Any voice, any time” is Doug’s mantra – ask and ye shall receive!