Barry Carl

Quick Facts

Full Name	Barry Carl
Occupation	Voice Actor
Date Of Birth	Apr 20, 1950(1950-04-20)
Age	74
Country	United States
Birth City	Oregon
Horoscope	Aries

Barry Carl Biography

Barry Carl is one of the most popular and richest Voice Actor who was born on April 20, 1950 in Oregon, United States. Voice-over artist , whose a capella group Rockapella was a hit as the main band of the PBS show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? He’s also a popular voice-over artist for commercials working for companies such as Nickelodeon, Taco Bell and Volkswagen.

He was a bandmate along with He has been bandmates with Sean Altman in Rockapella. in Rockapella.

Born in Portland, Oregon to a father who was a jazz musician and a mother who was an artist focusing mostly on sculpting, Carl’s parents moved to Los Angeles, where he grew up, before he was 2 years old. In 1958, at age 8, Carl began to play the tenor saxophone, but stopped a year later and switched to the French horn at age 10. He won many awards and competitions for his horn playing including the Los Angeles Music Guild Award (1963), the First Los Angeles Horn Club Award (1965), and the Coleman Awards twice (1966, 1967). It also brought him many opportunities; Carl played with every pro and semipro ensemble in Los Angeles, played the Strauss’ Horn Concerto No. 1 at his high school graduation, was the principal horn in the American youth symphony under Mehli Mehta as well as an extra horn with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the American Ballet Theatre, and spent three summers on scholarship at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara under Maurice Abravanel, where he performed Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Wind Quartet and Orchestra, Robert Schumann’s Konzertstück for Four Horns and Orchestra, Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for Wind Instruments, and Mozart’s Serenade No. 10 for Winds.

Carl won a scholarship to the Juilliard School in 1966 at age 16, the youngest hornist ever admitted to the school on scholarship at the time, but waited until he graduated from Ulysses S. Grant High School in 1968 to move to New York and attend the school. He studied with Rainier DeIntinis, who was the 3rd chair hornist in the New York Philharmonic while he taught. Carl earned two degrees from Juilliard, a Bachelor of Music in 1972 and a Master of Music in 1973, and played in the Juilliard Orchestra, many Broadway shows, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and three seasons with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra during his years there. He quit playing the horn at age 28 to further pursue his passion for singing.

He married Liz Szczygielski Carl in 1985. They have two children who are named Maya as well as Jacwelyn.

Barry Carl Net Worth

Barry Carl is one of the richest Voice Actor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Barry Carl 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a remarkable trumpet player in his youth and was awarded his first prize in the year 1963, the Los Angeles Music Guild Award. When he was 16, he was the youngest hornist to be accepted into Juilliard School. Juilliard School.

He was an A capella singer on the film He played an a capella singer in the 2010 Will Ferrell comedy The Other Guys. comedy The Other Guys.

Barry Strauss Carl (born April 20, 1950) is an American voice-over actor and musician best known as the bass of the a cappella vocal band Rockapella while the group was house band on the PBS children’s geography game show Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?. He was a member of Rockapella from 1988 until he left the group in 2002. Carl is known for his signature deep voice, which he used during his years with the band to create an almost instrumental sounding bass.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Barry Carl Dating?

According to our records, Barry Carl married to Liz Szczygielski Carl. As of December 1, 2023, Barry Carl’s is not dating anyone.

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In late 2002, Carl decided to retire from Rockapella to pursue other opportunities; his last concert with the group was on July 14, 2002 in Burbank, California at the Starlight Bowl, but appeared as the principal bass singer on the group’s album Smilin’, which was released a month later. Carl has, however, continued to work with music. He released a solo CD in 2004 titled The SoLow Project, which contains 20 songs split into four sections of Negro spirituals, sea chanties, a collection of songs by Jacques Ibert, and a song cycle by Modest Mussorgsky. He also appeared on movie soundtracks as an ensemble singer for such films as Corpse Bride and Nine; in 2007 he appeared in the independent movie The Wedding Weekend as a tough guy in prison who likes to sing. In the fall of 2009, Carl filmed a scene for the Will Ferrell movie The Other Guys, released on August 6, 2010, in which he is an a cappella singer in a bar. Since 2008 Carl has gotten back together with Steve Keyes, Kerman, and Altman on three occasions, billing themselves as XRP. This regrouping of the 1988–1991 line up of Rockapella was originally scheduled to occur only twice: once as a practice gig on July 26, 2008, and a second time at the 2008 A Cappellastock in Ogden, Utah on August 23. However, XRP got together for a third show on April 17, 2009, and sang a song written by Carl and Altman on the Schoolhouse Rock!: Earth Rock soundtrack called “You Oughta Be Savin’ Water”; Carl is also one of the singers on another Altman song on the same album titled “Save the Ocean”. In addition to singing with old friends at various gigs, Carl sings in a pro chorus with the New York Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra from time to time, and every now and then concertizes with Rockland Vocal Arts, a small ensemble of singers. Carl also privately teaches a limited number of vocal students and coaches vocal groups.

Facts & Trivia

Barry Ranked on the list of most popular Voice Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Barry Carl celebrates birthday on April 20 of every year.