Photograph of Henry White in the booth · contributed to the CMTK Archive
Voice · Voices That Left a Mark
Henry White
The voice of the jingles
A Venezuelan announcer whose voice identifies today's mobile sound: jingles, tips, station IDs and voice drops that play in the booths of minitecas such as Hot Music and Planeta Hot.
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The craft you do not see
Every miniteca sounds, before it sounds like music, like a voice: the one that says its name between one track and the next, the one that marks the entrance of a set, the one that stays stuck in your ear long after the party is over. In the Venezuelan movement that craft has names of its own — Jesús Leandro, Charlie Ball, Enrique Hoffman, Waldemaro Martínez — and in the contemporary stage one of them is Henry White.
His work circulates in packages of voice work for discjockeys (now DJs) — jingles, tips, station IDs, voice drops and demos — distributed among the country's booths. It is the same job that in the seventies and eighties was recorded in a radio studio and reached the miniteca on tape: the sound identity of a brand, spoken by a voice people recognize without seeing its face.
Source consulted on August 1, 2026
Radio · Voices
