Eric Kelso

Eric Kelso
Born	Eric Victor Kelso San Jose, California, United States
Nationality	American
Occupation	Voice actor, narrator, director, producer
Website	www.erickelso.com

Eric Victor Kelso is an American voice actor and narrator currently based in Tokyo, Japan. He is the voice of Paul Phoenix in the video game series, Tekken, as well as Guizhang Chen,Masayuki Fukuhara,Ren of Heavens in the Shenmue series, and Jacky Bryant in the Virtua Fighter series. Outside of video games, he has provided voices for Disney, Universal Studios, DreamWorks, and the Iron Chef cooking show. His voice is well-known in Japan on many TV commercials, as well as NHK TV and radio programs.

Eric Kelso was born and raised in San Jose, California. He attended high school in Santa Cruz and went to the University of California at Santa Barbara where he majored in Film Studies. While at UCSB he received a Corwin Metropolitan Film Award for writing and directing the short film, "An Echo en Route". After graduating in 1986 he set out to travel the world in search of documentary film subjects and eventually made his way to Japan where he happily resides today.

Since 1989, Eric Kelso has been a narrator for more than 300 international corporate videos including Major League Baseball, Toyota Motors, Mitsubishi, Du Pont, Sony, Panasonic, Isuzu Motors, Yamaha Motors, NEC, Japan Airlines, Nescafe, Tiffany's, Toshiba, RCA Victor, UNESCO World Heritage. He has narrated thousands of English teaching materials as well, from junior high school and high school tests and textbooks, to university entrance examinations, and TOEIC, TOEFL and STEP tests.