The Good Life – July-August 2015

working at K102 in the Twin Cities.
He then bounced around Minnesota,
Wisconsin and North Dakota at
different stations and made a fun career
out of it.
He said when he was in radio, he’d hear
about people that make a living doing
voiceover work, and everybody wanted
to do it, but it was a hard industry to
get into. When he decided to leave
full-time radio, he figured he could do
voice over work and combine it with
Minnesota Sporting Journal income to
make a living.
PHOTO SUBMITTED BY: BRET AMUNDSON PHOTO SUBMITTED BY: BRET AMUNDSON
The rock band Sevendust used to
pencil in Fargo dates on their touring
calendar frequently in the early 2000s.
Amundson worked closely with their
management during their stops and
struck up a friendship. That led to
him getting the gig of producing their
national touring commercials. His
friend Collin Taylor voiced them while
he’d put them together and send them
out to radio stations and promoters
all over the country. This sparked his
entrepreneurial spirit, and his voice
over career began.
Amundson’s voice has been heard
on national projects for Best Buy, the
Minnesota Twins, Buffalo Wild Wings,
Red Bull, the Phoenix Coyotes, Southern
Methodist University, Elite Archery,
Clam and iWireless, as well as local
commercials for Dakota Magic Casino,
the Fargo Force, the FM Redhawks,
Nuseed and more, including the TV
shows “Respect The Game” from Elite
Archery and Jason Mitchell’s “Passion
for the Hunt.”
“The first time you hear [yourself],
you’re a little weirded out by it,” he
said. “And nobody likes the sound of
their own voice, so you have to either
get over the fact that you don’t sound
like you think you do or you have to
make yourself sound better.”
“Once you’re over the weirdness aspect
of hearing your voice, then you start
listening to [it] to find out how you can