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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...
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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 |
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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...
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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...
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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....
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| 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...
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| Derek R. Audette | |||
| Ronan Tynan | |||
| BeBe Winans | |||
| Giovanni Martinelli | |||
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| x Bass |
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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...
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| Alexander Kipnis | |||
| Luigi Lablache | |||
| Robert Easton | |||
| Antonio Montagnana | |||
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| x Baritone |
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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 ...
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| 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...
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| x Lead vocalist |
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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...
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| 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...
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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...
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| Jochen Kowalski | |||
| Alfred Deller | |||
