Carolyn Hopkins is a comforting voice that nearly every traveler knows. She did voice over for Disney World 31 years ago. She’s the voice of the New York City subways, but she’s only ridden them once – in 1957. Her first airport announcement was for Chicago O’Hare – but now she’s done announcements for more than 200 airports.
Hopkins is the voice of New York’s LaGuardia and JFK, Denver, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Toronto Pearson, Calgary, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Seoul Incheon and many more. She records everything from her home studio and emails the files out.
A lot has changed at airports around the world, but there’s still one constant: Carolyn Hopkins’ announcements continue pic.twitter.com/fv2llvrr2z
— Sam Sweeney (@SweeneyABC) April 27, 2020
The male voice you know belongs to Jack Fox, who joined Hopkins at IED – Innovative Electronic Designs of Louisville – two years after Hopkins in 1989 because airports were looking for a ‘strong male voice’ for security announcements after the first Gulf War commenced.
(HT: @CanesLawMarty)
Fun stuff. Thanks for posting.
@ Gary — What an amazing job to have. Plus, I would imagine it has made her a fortune.
This whole time I thought the inflection on Airport was due to a mashup of recordings.
@Gene she’s apparently not rich and doesn’t travel much. Gets paid hourly and no residuals. See this interview with her: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wQUOSXhZUUs