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Musical voice table

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A Musical voice is the singing role of a vocalist in a piece of music. Vocalists often specialize based on their vocal range. A Musical voice is also... more

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x Mezzo-soprano   Beyoncé  
Gwen Stefani
LeAnn Rimes
Tiffany Apan
x Contralto   Basia  
Antonio Bernacchi
Senesino
Tiffany Apan
x Bass-Baritone   Andy Gilmour  
Ruggero Raimondi
Rab Townsend
x Other      
x Sopranist Soprano  
A sopranist (also, sopranista or male soprano) is a male singer who is able to sing in the vocal tessitura of a soprano usually through the use of falsetto vocal production. This voice type is a specific kind of countertenor. It should be noted that...
x Baritenor Soprano  
Baritenor is a slang word describing a male voice whose tessitura lies between the baritone and the tenor. The word is frequently used to describe one of the most common male music vocal types, rather a pop singer than a true operatic baritone with...
x Soprano Soprano Celine Dion
A soprano is a singing voice with a vocal range (using scientific pitch notation, where middle C = C4) from approximately middle C (C4) to "high A" (A5) in choral music, or to "soprano C" (C6, two octaves above middle C) or higher in operatic music....
Mariah Carey
Kaisa Vala
Ruma Guha Thakurta
Giovanni Manzuoli
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x Tenor   Greg Colvin
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C (A4) in choral music, and up to high C (C5) in solo...
Derek R. Audette
Ronan Tynan
BeBe Winans
Giovanni Martinelli
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x Bass Soprano Feodor Chaliapin
A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second F below...
Alexander Kipnis
Luigi Lablache
Robert Easton
Antonio Montagnana
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x Baritone Soprano Chris Maden
Baritone (or barytone; French: baryton; German: Bariton; Italian: baritono) is a type of classical male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek βαρυτονος, meaning 'deep ...
Tachibana Kli
David Bowie
Kostas Paskalis
Antonio Pini-Corsi
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x Dramatic coloratura soprano      
x Lyric coloratura soprano      
x Coloratura Soprano   Tiffany Apan
A coloratura soprano is a type of operatic soprano who specializes in music that is distinguished by agile runs and leaps. The term coloratura refers to the elaborate ornamentation of a melody, which is a typical component of the music written for...
x Lead vocalist Zach de la Rocha at 2007 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Uniqum
The lead vocalist (or lead singer) is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. Lead vocalists may also play one or more instruments. They are sometimes referred to as a frontmen (or frontwomen), and as such, are usually...
Kaisa Vala
Ruma Guha Thakurta
Mark Wilkerson
Sean Ryan Woodward
x Backing vocalist   Ruma Guha Thakurta
A backing vocalist or backing singer (or, especially in the U.S., backup singer or sometimes background singer) is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. In some cases, a backing singer may sing alone...
x Countertenor Soprano Gérard Lesne
A countertenor is a male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of a contralto, mezzo-soprano, or (less frequently) a soprano, usually through use of falsetto, or more rarely the normal or modal voice. A pre-pubescent male who has...
Jochen Kowalski
Alfred Deller