2025 Voices of Summer Gala Awardee spotlight. The Voice Foundation Voices of Summer Gala, honoree spotlight! We are thrilled to honor renowned hockey broadcaster, Mike Mille, with a Tony Randall Award at our upcoming Gala on May 30th in Philadelphia. Mike Miller Broadcast Career Mike Miller’s Broadcast Career has spanned four decades and 39 years. Miller’s primary radio work has been in the hockey industry which started in 1980 when he provided the commentary and play by play for his home town team the Toledo Goaldiggers in the IHL. The games were aired on WOHO 1470 AM in Toledo. Toledo won back to back championships (Turner Cup) in 1982 and 1983. Miller spent 5 seasons with the Goaldiggers before moving on to the Kalamazoo Wings, also in the IHL. Miller spent eight seasons in Kalamazoo as the clubs play by play broadcaster and also served as the team’s Director of Communications and Radio Sales. In 13 seasons in the IHL Miller provided the play by play for 1005 games. Miller missed one game in that span to get married in January of 1985. The Kalamazoo Wings games were carried on 50,000 watt WNWN FM 98.5. Miller later built a seven station radio network in Kalamazoo and the surrounding area. In October of 1993 Miller fulfilled a lifelong dream of broadcasting at the major league level when he was hired to call the games for the NHL’s New Jersey Devils. The Devils were aired on one of the most recognizable and historic radio stations in North America. WABC 770 AM in New York City. Miller was the voice behind New Jersey’s 1995 and 2000 Stanley Cup Championships. Health issues forced Miller from the broadcast booth after 9 unforgettable seasons with New Jersey. Miller left the booth to enter the management ranks of the hockey industry in 2003. Miller was the Vice President and General Manager of the Toledo Storm of the ECHL for four seasons and also spent time with the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets in the corporate relations sector. Mike Miller returned to the airways with yet another iconic North American radio station CKLW AM 800 in 2008 as the voice of the Canadian Hockey League’s Windsor Spitfires were he has spent the last 11 seasons. Windsor won the coveted Memorial Cup three times (2009, 2010,2017) which symbolizes Canada’s National Championship. Miller was fitted with championship rings five and six and seven in his hockey career. Mike has hosted the longest running sports specialty show in Toledo. “Face Off “the “Hockey Show” is in its 20th season and airs on Wednesday Nights from 6 to 7pm on ESPN 106.5 The Ticket. The show includes guest from every level of hockey, the NHL to High School Hockey. It airs from the Loft Restaurant inside the Sylvania Tam O Shanter Complex. In May of 2012 Miller and Cumulus Toledo launched a one hour Sports Talk magazine named “Drive Time” It airs from Monroe Dodge nightly from 5 to 6pm. The format and guest lineup includes coverage of the regional teams in the area. Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, Pistons, Buckeyes, Michigan, MSU, BG, Walleye, Mud Hens. Drive Time aired it’s 1600th show in January. Mike Miller’s career also includes being contracted by XM Satellite radio to host and provide coverage of professional golf on the PGA Tour. The highlight was calling Chris Dimarco’s winning putt which gave the USA the Presidents Cup in 2005. Symposium and Gala information and tickets can be found at www.voicefoundation.org (fb)

2025 Voices of Summer Gala Awardee spotlight. The Voice Foundation Voices of Summer Gala, honoree spotlight! We are thrilled to honor renowned cabaret/jazz artist, Natalie Douglas, with a Voice Education Research Awareness (VERA) Award at our upcoming Gala on May 30th in Philadelphia. Natalie Douglas is a 21st century vocalist with a strong foundation in the traditional pop vocals of the American Songbook and an equally fierce devotion to the modern jazz, blues, rock & country influences of her childhood. Like her idol, Nina Simone, Natalie is drawn to lyrics that tell a compelling story no matter what genre. Douglas is a fourteen-time MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs), two-time Bistro, and Nightlife Award winner, as well as a BroadwayWorld Best Vocalist Award winner. Her appearances include Birdland Jazz Club, Carnegie Hall, Cafe Carlyle, The Town Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Crazy Coqs & The Pheasantry in London, plus numerous Cabaret Conventions presented by The Mabel Mercer Foundation (which has honored her with the Margaret Whiting Award, the Donald F. Smith Award and the 2024 Mabel Mercer Award). Douglas has also curated, produced and hosted two evenings for the 2022 & 2024 Cabaret Conventions at Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrating Nat King Cole & Bobby Short with a stellar cast of artists, including Clint Holmes, Ken Page, Billy Stritch, Valarie Pettiford and Natasha Yvette Williams. She is also a 2024 recipient of the Gaudium Award presented by the Breukelein Institute. She has produced & performed in 80 concerts at her musical home, Birdland Jazz Club in New York City - most notably her TRIBUTES series, celebrating artists she loves including, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Elvis, Dolly Parton, Nat King Cole, Dame Shirley Bassey, Ella Fitzgerald, Roberta Flack, Joni Mitchell, Sammy Davis, Jr., Lena Horne, Barbra Streisand and Cher. She is widely known for her in-depth research and skillful intermingling of stories & songs covering each artist’s body of work. Natalie’s portrait has joined the illustrious collection of legendary musicians on Birdland’s Wall of Fame. The latest addition to her four CD catalog, including the MAC Award Winning “Human Heart,” is a brand new album on Club44 Records, “Back to the Garden,” which is in heavy rotation on Sirius Radio, WBAI and others. All of her CDs are currently available on iTunes, Amazon.com, Spotify, and her website: nataliedouglas.com, also on all streaming platforms.Douglas has also made her mark as a much sought-after educator and actor – she is an expert instructor for the Jim & Elizabeth Sullivan Foundation, the Eugene O’Neill Cabaret & Performance Conference, the Cayman Arts Festival and the Mabel Mercer Foundation, for whom she is Education Director. In addition to her work as an actor on stage, film & television, Douglas is a popular choice for radio & podcast interviews worldwide, including her many appearances on BBCLondon Radio. Currently, she can be seen in the award- winning documentary, “Sloane: A Jazz Singer,” celebrating another one of her heroes, the late, great Carol Sloane, in domestic & international film festivals. Natalie holds a bachelor’s degree from USC in Psychology, Theatre and Women’s Studies and a master’s degree from UCLA in Psychology and Theatre. “The range Ms. Douglas exhibits, vocal and emotional, could make a cynic believe in Santa. She lives inside the music, lives for the music, it is joyful and a beautiful sight to behold.” - Stephen Mosher, BroadwayWorld.com “Douglas is the kind of performer who is hard to review, because she's so undoubtedly talented and good at what she does - the singing, sharing, entertaining, all of it - and frankly how can my words do her music justice? They can't: she has to be seen to be believed.”- Karis Rogerson, BroadwayWorld.com “Extraordinary. A true force of nature, she squeezes a phenomenal amount of material into the evening. Yet by the end, you simply want her to carry on into the small hours. - Clive Davis, The Times (UK) https://www.nataliedouglas.com/ (fb)