About me
My name is David Morales. I’m a Spanish (Castilian) and Catalan Voice Over Artist
From a transistor to Netflix: my story as a Spanish voice actor
Hi! I’m David Morales Martín, a Spanish voice actor and dubbing artist, in love with radio since I was a kid. I was born in Barcelona on a Wednesday, April 11th, 1979. An old Spanish saying goes: “No Wednesday without sun, no widow without sorrow, no young girl without love”… I have no idea whether the sun came out that day, but one thing is certain: every day of my week, Wednesdays included, revolves around a microphone. My story begins with an orange transistor radio, stumbles over a forgotten dream of becoming a vet, runs into Indiana Jones and lands in projects for Netflix, RedBull TV, CaixaBank’s phone system and national ad campaigns for Ariel. All of it with an unconditional love for dogs. Want to know how a kid from Barcelona became the Spanish voice actor behind so many projects? Keep reading.
Long before I knew voice actors even existed
My childhood sounded like radio everywhere. My grandfather carried his battery powered orange transistor wherever he went, with that tinny metallic sound I can still hear today. On weekend mornings I would sneak into my parents’ bedroom and spin the dial of the radio built into their headboard, hypnotised by voices arriving from places I couldn’t even imagine. And the ads, oh, the ads: Fidelcolor, La Casa de las Mantas, La Mallorquina… I knew them all by heart. During the weekdays, I had breakfast listening to “Arús con leche”, a legendary morning show, fascinated by those people who could brighten your day through a speaker. Years later I ended up voicing radio ads for La Mallorquina, and it felt like life winking at me: the circle had closed.
At school, around fourth or fifth grade, my mind was made up: I would be a journalist. I loved writing and, even more, talking. Before that came my “I want to be a vet” phase, because animals are my weak spot (in the photo you can see me hugging Chispa, my first canine companion… more on her later). That plan collapsed the day I learned that vets sometimes have to put animals down: “No way!”. So journalism won, and radio became my first love.
At 13 I stood in front of a microphone for the first time, during a school visit to Radio Tele-Taxi arranged by our teacher, Núria Torrent. Justo Molinero, a true radio legend in Catalonia, asked who dared to speak on air. My classmates didn’t hesitate: “Him! He wants to be a journalist!”. Off I went, trembling, with no headphones and the volume so low I could barely hear myself. I have no idea what I said, but I survived. And I walked out with one certainty: that machine and I were bound to get along.
At 16 we set up a station at my high school: Radio Institut Puigvert, which played during break time and was a glorious mess. My creation was Trivial-RIP, a quiz show where my classmates competed for honour question by question, with knockout rounds, a final and even a prize. And there I was in the middle of it all, happily playing host and showman.
At 13 I stood in front of a microphone for the first time, during a school visit to Radio Tele-Taxi arranged by our teacher, Núria Torrent. Justo Molinero, a true radio legend in Catalonia, asked who dared to speak on air. My classmates didn’t hesitate: “Him! He wants to be a journalist!”. Off I went, trembling, with no headphones and the volume so low I could barely hear myself. I have no idea what I said, but I survived. And I walked out with one certainty: that machine and I were bound to get along.
At 16 we set up a station at my high school: Radio Institut Puigvert, which played during break time and was a glorious mess. My creation was Trivial-RIP, a quiz show where my classmates competed for honour question by question, with knockout rounds, a final and even a prize. And there I was in the middle of it all, happily playing host and showman.
My real radio school, though, was Santa Coloma Radio, under its director Paco López, just before university and throughout those years. After graduating I took a job at a consultancy firm handling communications, but I never let go of the microphone: I kept hosting shows at RKB and built my first home studio to record segments for them. That little studio changed everything: my friend Gemma Puig, who worked at the Abacus retail chain at the time, asked me to record some ads for their in-store announcement system. Then came radio commercials, recordings for the NGO Sonrisas de Bombay (which I still collaborate with today)… and the ball kept rolling before I even noticed. My first recordings were a disaster, it took me hours to get 20 decent seconds, but little by little I got the hang of it.
And then I made a key decision: to train seriously as a dubbing actor. At the Escuela Catalana de Doblaje (ECAD), Barcelona’s Catalan School of Dubbing, I studied dubbing, commercial voice over and audiobook narration, soaking up everything they put in front of me.
In 2012 the door of one of Spain’s biggest radio networks opened for me: Onda Cero. And in 2017, five years later, came the big leap: I left the consultancy where I had worked for 15 years to bet everything on voice over and radio as a freelancer. Without enough clients to make a salary, and without a safety net. Two months later, on my birthday, the bell rang: the CaixaBank phone system project, a client I still work with today. A thrill and a scare in equal measure. Many more followed: voice overs for Teledeporte through a casting, RedBull TV thanks to a German colleague I met at a conference, and Netflix thanks to a French contact who introduced me to an international dubbing production company. Voicing Say I Do and Magic for Humans was one of those things you can’t quite believe even while living them.
In 2024 I received three One Voice Awards nominations in the Spanish categories: Best Voice of God voice over for live events, Best Performance in e-Learning, and Best Performance in guide voice (museums, transport and immersive experiences). I didn’t win any, but finding myself among the best, in three such different categories, already felt like a prize. And at conferences like VO Atlanta and the One Voice Conference in London I’ve met giants of this profession, like Nicky Mondellini, the queen of telenovela villains. Pure learning and good vibes, with no epic excesses to report.
Away from the mic: Italy has stolen my heart, cannelloni are my weakness and at home my dog Chispa is the boss. The animal thing never went away. I have just one thorn left: getting Chispa to join me in the recording studio… and she flatly refuses! But when I edit audio in bed with my laptop, there she is by my side, supervising like the boss she is. By the way, her name is Chispa, just like the dog I shared my childhood with. And I didn’t choose that name: she already had it when we adopted her from an animal shelter. Fate works in mysterious ways!
Being a voice actor is an intimate thing: just you and the microphone. Knowing that my voice reaches people and connects with them: that’s what drives me. From an orange transistor radio to Netflix, with plenty of excitement and one stubborn dog, this is my path. If you’re looking for a Spanish voice actor with a story behind the voice, you’ve just found him.
Brief Professional & Personal Bio
1995
I start my first radio show at my high school radio station
1997
I start studying Journalism at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and start working for Santa Coloma Radio
2001
While I’m at university, I work for Santa Coloma Radio and Radio Salut
2002
I do an internship at Catalunya Radio and graduate at university
2003
Santa Coloma Radio becomes RKB and I start hosting a morning show. I record my first commercial as a Spanish Castilian Voice Artist
2008
I build my own first recording home studio
2010
I start studying a bianual training for professional dubbing actors
2012
I start working for Onda Cero Radio
…until now
I have directed and co-directed different radio shows at Onda Cero; I have created several podcasts, and I have worked for hundreds of clients as a Catalan and Spanish Castilian Voice Artist.
Studies & Training
A journalist by training, specialised in radio, I made the leap into voice work out of pure vocation. After my first recordings as a voice over artist I enrolled at the Escuela Catalana de Doblaje (ECAD), where I completed the Dubbing Actor, Commercial Voice Over and Audiobook Narrator courses. You can imagine the rest: castings, demos, coaching and many hours at the mic.
My start
I started out in 1995, at just 16, doing amateur radio, and moved on through local, regional and national stations. One day I was asked to record some ads for an in-store announcement system and, without knowing it, my story in commercial voice over had begun: radio commercials, spots and everything else followed. videos…