Carlos Villegas
Co-Founder & CEO of EMOTIA

The voice behind the narrative.

Carlos Eduardo Villegas is a voice actor and director. Since 1996 his voice has carried international productions across film, radio and television. Today he leads the narrative behind every EMOTIA project.

1996His first international production
+25Years in the craft
+50Professionals in his studio
Why it matters

No marketing course teaches you how to make someone feel.

A script that converts and a script that moves you are not written the same way. The first arranges arguments; the second manages silence, the pause, the weight of one word against another. You don't learn that reading about funnels — you learn it in a booth, recording for thirty years.

Carlos has spent his career making millions of people feel something in their own language. When a global brand needs its story to land in Spanish, someone has to decide where the emotion goes. That craft is what he brings to EMOTIA.

It's why our strategy always begins with the story and never with the ad buy. The agency's thesis — that marketing fails for lack of emotion, not for lack of data — isn't a campaign line. It's the conclusion of an entire career.

Track record

Brands that trusted him with their voice in Spanish.

DisneyNetflixNational GeographicESPNDiscovery ChannelHistoryA&E MundoFoxUnivisionCaracol TelevisiónRCN

He has worked with these companies through dubbing studios such as Provideo, Centauro Comunicaciones and VC Medios, and advertising agencies including McCann Erickson, Leo Burnett, Grey, Toro Publicidad and Sancho BBDO.

Productions

Some of the stories he has told.

Megafactories

National Geographic

Inspector Gadget

Animated series

Hunter × Hunter

Hisoka

Enzo Ferrari

Feature film

Insatiable

Series

Leverage

Series

Training

Fourteen years of craft before the first professional microphone.

The voice is an instrument and, like any instrument, it is studied. This is the training behind what you hear.

1982

Latin American Guitar Academy

His first formal music studies.

1984

Guitar and vocal technique

Two years of lessons with professor Jorge Martínez.

1986

English in the United States

Private study that would later let him work with original productions.

1987

Singing and vocal technique

Three years of intensive study with Raymond Koster.

1990

Radio and television — Academia Arco

Specialized training in voice work.

1991

Bel canto with Hernando Riaño

Through 1993: anatomy and physiology of the vocal apparatus, mask voice, spoken and floating voice, Corelli and Kraus technique, breathing, support, phrasing and interpretation.

1991

Acted voice with Ramiro Corzo

Through 1994, with one of the pioneers of the craft in Latin America.

1994

Acting — Rubén di Prieto Academy

Two years of acting training.

1996

Theatre and acting — Nowicka and Nowicki

Two years of advanced study, and the year he began working with international productions.

Voice Factory

His own studio, with more than fifty professionals.

Beyond his own voice work, Carlos runs Voice Factory: a team that brings international productions into Spanish and Portuguese, and that gives EMOTIA a sound production capability few agencies keep in-house.

Dubbing actors

Narrators

Voice talent

Directors

Audio and video editors

Translators

Synchronized dubbing

Lip sync in Spanish and Portuguese

Voice over

Narration over the original voices

Subtitling

In whatever language the production needs

Closed caption

With simultaneous interpreting for events

Translation

Spanish and Portuguese

Courses

Public speaking, voice control and interpretation

My voice is the instrument God gave me to convey emotions.
Carlos Villegas
The next step

This is the craft that will tell your story.

If your brand is ready to communicate at this level, the first step is an application that takes under three minutes. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you honestly.