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American voice over actor
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Joe Cipriano (born September 8, 1954) is an American voice over actor, radio and TV on air personality, and author.

Cipriano was born September 8, 1954, in Waterbury, Connecticut. He attended Watertown High School. At age 14, Cipriano called into local disc jockey Jerry Wolf at WWCO AM. He told Wolf that he aspired to become radio DJ and asked if he could visit the station to see what it was like. He would end up running errands and doing office work at the station on weekends and over the summer. When Cipriano was 16, he was hired to work on air at WWCO FM, a country music station, and WWCO AM, a top 40 station, both in Waterbury. He was soon after hired at a third radio station, WDRC FM, a top 40 station in Hartford. He used a different on air pseudonym at each station. After high school, Cipriano became the youngest on air FM radio personality ever hired by NBC at age 19. It was there that he would meet his wife, Ann, on her first day at NBC as an AM news writer in 1976. They married in 1979.

While still working in radio, Cipriano began picking up voice over work in commercials. Cipriano has announced the 57th, 59th, and 60th Emmy awards as well as Grammy award shows and special events. He has also been the live announcer for the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, the VH1 Honors, and the GQ Magazine Men of the Year awards. He has also been the in show narrator for a number of network game shows and reality shows, including Hollywood Game Night, America's Got Talent, Candy Crush, and Deal or No Deal. Cipriano is also a founding member and current donor of the Don LaFontaine Voice Over Lab at the SAG Actors Center. The lab, named for prolific voice actor Don LaFontaine, serves as both a recording facility and educational resource for the voice actor community. Cipriano uses a Neumann U 87 and Sennheiser 416 microphones for his voice over work.

Cipriano and his wife Ann co authored his autobiography Living On Air: Adventures in Broadcasting, which was independently released in 2013. In addition to his own autobiography, Cipriano is one of the contributors to Joan Baker's book "Secrets of Voice Over Success", which details the experiences of 13 different voice over actors.

Cipriano is the recipient of the second annual Don LaFontaine Legacy Award, recognizing "character, longevity, talent, professionalism, and the passion for giving back," presented at the 2010 PromaxBDA Promotions and Marketing Awards. He was also nominated for an Audie Award in 2015 in the Autobiography or Memoir category.