Does anyone know or know of a website that knows the vocal ranges of various singers (I’m thinking more of the pop/rock variety than operatic stuff). Just out of curiosity.
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I’d be interested, too.
I read somewhere that the male rock singer with the greatest range was Burton Cummings. I have no idea if that’s true, but it could be - he certainly has a wide range.
Also, I’m less interested in their sheer net range than which range they have. If that makes any sense.
I always figured it was Cyndi Lauper for the girls. She can go pretty deep when she needs to and god, can she go high.
Like – Annie Lennox, Patsy Cline, Anita Baker, Karen Carpenter are all altos…?
That’s also what interests me.
Ironically I just read this interesting commentary on Jeff Buckley’s voice yesterday:
""Jeff Buckley was a light lyric tenor. His very different registers were blended marvelously. His chest, voice, and head voice were perfectly integrated. His falsetto was good, too, and his fluctuating between falsetto and head voice is something most singers are very jealous of. His tessitura (or comfortable singing range) was between E below middle C, which he often started verses on- (“Grace”, “Lover …”, “Last Goodbye”), and the notes D right above middle C and F# just above that- in most of his choruses. He also used his high A frequently. A typical lyric tenor tessitura. In other words, to the unacquainted, the same range as Pavarotti. Except, Jeff was very fond of the alto register, which he would exploit in falsetto, or coordinated head voice (a fuller, wailing type of voice).
"His lowest note was on a live version of “Dream Brother” (on the Australian Grace album pack- it must have been the weather!) and it was the second A below middle C – this is quite low for a high tenor voice. He loved to wail in head voice on the high E, which he did on half the songs on Grace, but mysteriously stopped doing them on Sketches … This was high “showstopper” note, I guess. …
“His highest note is on the B-sides on Sketches … on the track “Gunshot Glitter.” It’s an Eb above the soprano high C!!! This is coloratura (high agile soprano) territory! … He actually gets into the super-register, normally reserved for trumpets! …”
I’d be curioius to know what “head voice” means.
That was nice Ace Face.
Anyhoo, surely a voice changes through the years ? I’d have thought you’re not looking at something that’s nailed down – also a voice will change depending on how much work you put into it, or not, or beer or drugs, as the case might be.
Maybe artist A got way down there in 1974 after 48 hours of mayhem, and way up there in 1996 in completely different circs . . ish.
This is an entirely unhelpful link, though:
How about Minnie Ripperton and her 5 octave range? She could break glass, summon wildlife and louse up harmonic convergence.
Eloquently put, my dear! 
Julie Andrews has (had?) at least a four-octave range and Roy Orbison a three-octave range. Mariah Carey is purported to have an incredible 7-octave range.
Or not. Her official site says five.
Well, as someone with (maybe) a one-octave range, I’ve gotta say, that’s still pretty phenomenal.
She can produce five octaves of audible sound. The upper two octaves can’t be heard by the human ear, but dogs from miles around will start baying whenever she hits the top of her range. :eek:
No argument there. I cover a couple of octaves myself.
Then how do we know she’s really singing that high? 
I bow to your superior cite. My information came from here.
Well, after all these years I still think Neil Young has the most beautiful, melodic voice out there (in terms of pop/rock singers). If you have any doubts, just listen to “Bandit” off of his latest album, Greendale.
Mariah Carey’s alledged range is the most notorious example of “octave inflation” in recent years. Producers who have worked with her in the studio frequently resort to note-by-note editing. She uses a lot of tape backups when performing “live”. (As do many pop stars.) I don’t believe it for a second.
I just checked on the piano 6 feet from me and I have at least a 5 octave range. But I also have the singing voice of a garbage truck. Except in the shower. There, I can do a mean Barry White as well as the high part in the finale of Jackson Browne’s “Stay” (and even a bit higher).
[Here’s a nifty invention for 20 years from now. A device that picks up brain waves while singing in the shower, translates them into something that other people would actually like to hear, and records it. Ego boost city.]