User:Jeff McNeal/sandbox

Jeff McNeal was born Jeff Ornellas in Los Angeles in 1960, and grew up in Pasadena, CA. After graduating from John Muir High School in Pasadena, CA Jeff adopted his stage name and embarked on a nearly two decade radio career that spanned from 1978 to 1997, all in California. He quickly found success in the nation's second largest market, Los Angeles, just nine months after he began working as a radio personality, first at KIDD AM in Monterey, CA, followed by another short stint at KACY AM in Port Hueneme, CA. His first Los Angeles job while still in his teens was working weekends, then promoted to full time by Program Director Frankie Crocker at KUTE 102 in Glendale, CA before taking another full time position at KHTZ FM. Other notable Los Angeles radio stations he worked for included KIIS FM and K-EARTH 101. In September 1982, Jeff was hired to work PM Drive for the NBC owned and operated KYUU FM in San Francisco, where he remained for six years before starting his production company, Jeff McNeal Productions in 1988. Jeff eventually wound down his career in radio after relocating to San Diego, where he worked at KKYY FM, KCBQ FM, KFMB FM and finally KEGL FM.

Since 2003, Jeff has been a full time voice actor, with hundreds of credits including the trailer voice for Disney's Frozen, a featured voice in Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey and commercials for Amazon, McDonalds, KFC, and many others. He served as one of the longest running signature promo voices for Los Angeles television station KNBC for nine consecutive years beginning in February 2004 running through February 2013. His voice has been heard numerous times on CNN for their series "The '60's" and helped CNN garner and Emmy Award in 2017 in the best promotional announcement category for his work on "The '70's" promo campaign. Other CNN specials his voice has appeared on include "The '80's", "The '90's", "The 2000's" and "The Movies".

In 2011, Jeff formed a local Temecula, CA classic rock band, Mrs. Jones' Revenge, where Jeff uses his skills as a vocal impressionist to emulate the lead vocals of over 50 different artists from the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's. He has also appeared on stage as an impersonator performing as both Tom Jones and Tony Orlando.