Doug has been interested in speech and sound since an early age, and remembers telling his mom at around age 4 or 5 that he wanted to do cartoon voices and sound effects for a living when he grew up. He didn't know it then, but he was aspiring to emulate such vocal greats as Mel Blanc and Daws Butler, and comedic vocal entertainers such as Red Skelton, Jonathan Winters, Stan Freberg, and Frank Nelson.

He traveled extensively with his family throughout the 50s and 60s living in Oklahoma, New York, Holland, Colorado, Montana, and Louisiana. Avid explorers, Doug says if his family didn't live there, they visited there on vacation. Exposure to these diverse cultures gave Doug a fine-tuned ear for regional accents and speech patterns, and spurred his love for vocal characterizations.

In the mid to late 60s he sang in his church choir, and with friends in various pop/rock musical groups, winning several awards and appearing on local TV in New Orleans. When he left home for college at LSU in Baton Rouge in 1970, Doug's roommate introduced him to the campus radio station, WLSU. Formal journalism studies quickly took a back seat to the wonders of RADIO!! Thus began a broadcasting career that spanned nearly 20 years, including gigs at such stations as WJBO-FM (Loose Radio) in Baton Rouge, KILT-FM in Houston (FM-100, back when it was rock 'n roll), KTXQ (Q102) and KZEW (The ZOO) in Dallas in the late 70s to the mid 80s, and an evening show on the Satellite Music Network's "Heart & Soul" format where he was heard live via satellite syndication in 33 cities across the country.

By the late 80s, deregulation of the broadcast industry had taken it's toll on the way radio "used to be" boasting local programming and distinct station personalities. Doug grew bored with computerized music playlists, and left broadcasting for a full time career as a Voice Over Talent, a pursuit that had been growing with each passing year.

Doug's list of projects is long and varied. Commercial clients include A&M Records, Dr. Pepper, Honda Motorcycles, Kawasaki Jet Ski, Dairy Queen, Roto Rooter, Allergan and Kroger Foods.

Non-Broadcast projects include productions for Southern Methodist University, American Heart Association, Southwestern Bell, Hyatt Hotels, The State of Texas, Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau, IBM, and Holiday Inns.

Doug has looped the lead male character roles in several foreign feature film translations to English, and delivers many accents, including various British regionalizations, Aussie, French, Italian, Japanese, Hindi... He has expert knowledge in the medical, photographic, and aviation fields, as he has worked on medical teams of a major Houston Emergency Center and Intensive Care Unit in the 70s, was a portrait and glamour photographer in Dallas in the 80s, and has been a Private Pilot since 1984, logging time in several aircraft types from single engine planes to twin turboprops -- even successfully piloting a major airline's full-motion Boeing 737 simulator through several takeoffs and landings.

Doug's life has been one of meeting, observing, and interacting with a huge number and variety of people -- each one giving him another facet of life to bring to your productions. Let him lend his distinct sound your production.

"Don't just say it -- Doug Saye it"...