Author Malcolm Gladwell says, “if you want to be an expert at anything, spend 10 years or 10,000 hours, and you’ll become one.” Well Wendy, you made it.
As of one Canada’s most famous voices, Wendy Lands is a vocal star. You’d have to be deaf to disagree.
Enormously humble and overwhelmingly friendly, this renaissance woman of the microphone affects you right away, just by saying hello. She embodies the term “The IT Factor.”
But that became well known years before her voiceover career developed, because Wendy was once a charting record label singer.
By all indications, Wendy should have wound up as a singer. Music was in her life from her earliest recollections. “As an only child, I always felt different,” says Wendy, “But I was never pushed into all of this.”
A proud college dropout like Michael Dell and Bill Gates, Wendy’s knowledge of the world superseded what University life offered her, so just like in high school which she also hated, “I just sort of tuned it out and dropped out of college.”
She got a record deal straight out of college, and this set the stage for what Wendy already knew; this was to be her life’s work. “It certainly became apparent when I was hearing myself on the radio singing a song.”
Wendy found voiceover to be more enjoyable than singing. And even at this level, Wendy still auditions for any new client she presents herself to. “And people want to be around me because I’m so easy going,” she tells me, “There’s an etiquette to being in the studio, and I know when to talk and when to not.”
Perhaps most notable of all of Wendy’s credits is Canada’s most beloved commercial for BELL ATLANTIC of which Miss Lands of course is the voice for.
She hasn’t hit her stride. Wendy feels her very best work is the voicework to come. But no question about it, she’s hit the 10,000-hour mark, and then some.
