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Ted Williams

Données clés

Naissance	22 septembre 1957 Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, États-Unis
Nationalité	États-Unis
Pays de résidence	États-Unis
Activité principale	Voix off
Autres activités	Militaire (déchargé)
Descendants	9 enfants

Ted Williams (né le 22 Septembre 1957 à Brooklyn,New York ) est un animateur sous voix off de nationalité américaine, qui vit actuellement dans la ville américaine de Columbus dans l'état de l'Ohio. Sans-abri durant 10 ans, Williams est devenu célèbre lorsqu'un bref interview avec lui, alors qu'il était encore SDF, fut posté sur YouTube, devenu ainsi rapidement un buzz médiatique au début de Janvier 2011. Ted a été nommé l'homme sans-abri avec la voix d'or (en anglais: Homeless Man with the Golden Voice). Le premier post de la vidéo sur YouTube (elle a d'abord été postée sur le site du The Columbus Dispatch, le journal local) a été retiré à cause de violations de droits d'auteur, bien que nombreuses copies de la vidéo existent encore dans différentes pages d'utilisateur. La vidéo originelle a eu plus 13 vues dans les 3 premiers jours avant qu'elle ne soit enlevée.

Cet article est en cours de traduction et certains passages délicats sont encore dans les deux langues.

Biography

Williams was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. According to his mother, his father named him after the all-star baseball player of the same name who was his father's favorite player at the time. He is a father to nine children: seven girls and two boys. Williams served three years in the United States Army, was honorably discharged, and attended school for voice acting. His inspiration to become a radio announcer came from a field trip at age 14, when he found that a radio announcer who he had heard looked nothing like he had imagined. Williams had experience as a radio disc jockey before. He worked some overnight shifts for WVKO (AM) in Columbus when the station played soul music. Williams stated that around 1993, cocaine, crack and alcohol abuse complicated his career and led to his then-current state of homelessness. He says he has been clean and sober since mid-2008.

A video was recorded in Columbus, Ohio at the Hudson Street off-ramp of Interstate 71 (40° 00′ 54″ N, 82° 59′ 42″ O), and posted at the Columbus Dispatch's website on January 3, 2011 by Doral Chenoweth, a videographer for the paper. It was reposted to YouTube by a user known only as "ritchey", and within one day it had been viewed millions of times. Williams' story also garnered a large following on the social news websites, with many users pledging donations of money, clothes, and job offers. On January 5, 2011, Williams appeared on the "Dave and Jimmy Show" on WNCI and was interviewed (since clean shaven and hair cut) by The Early Show on CBS. He was interviewed on Today, January 6, doing the lead-in voice over, revealing that he was to have an interview to do voice overs for Kraft Foods.

On January 5, 2011, Williams attempted to fly to New York to reunite with his 90-year old mother. However, TSA did not allow him to do so since Williams lacked the proper identification material required to enter an aircraft. Williams, through the intervention of Today and The Early Show was able to reunite with his mother the following day. Also on January 5, the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA basketball team offered him a job and a house. The offer calls for Williams to do full-time voiceover work with the Cavaliers and Quicken Loans Arena. Williams responded, "That’s the best deal ever!"

On January 7, Williams was officially hired by MSNBC. Williams is also the voice behind Kraft Foods' new TV campaign due to launch January 9 during the 2011 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl on ESPN.

Voiceover work

• Today, January 6, 2011 - (Lead in)
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, January 6, 2011
• The Rachel Maddow Show, January 6, 2011
• MSNBC's "Lean Forward" campaign, January 6, 2011

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