@Flander: You may be right. I haven’t followed her stuff but “Someday” stuck in my mind.
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So I researched Mariah a bit via Wikipedia. She’s singing in the “Whistle Register.”
Here’s a youtube explanation…I guess they checked Wikipedia as well.
And the record for highest notes apparently belongs to Georgia Brown of Brazil. Georgia Brown is a Brazilian singer noted for her extensive vocal range. She currently holds the Guinness World Records for hitting the highest vocal note and for possessing the greatest range, which spans exactly 8 octaves from G2-G10 using scientific pitch notation.[1] She also has 5 octave of singing voice.[2]
A sample:
A cornucopia, titled so you know what pitches she’s hitting:
Wikipedia also says: Also, rare singers like Georgia Brown from Brazil, who sang up to a G10 (25087Hz), can sing much higher in the whistle register.[2]
I thought human hearing was 20Hz to 20,000Hz. I guess they have a dog corroborating this ?
Pat Benatar- “We Live for Love.” Especially the “live” in the chorus.
Sad note: saw her on a TV special a couple of years ago. She skipped the highest note completely. So it went “We <pause> live love.” Awkward. You think people aren’t going to notice the mangling of the title lyrics? Lately they (Pat and Neil) do an acoustic version. No high notes at all.
“Grace Kelly” by Mika. The singer actually channels Freddie earlier in the song, and then in the chorus gets higher and higher–every time you think that he can’t stretch out another note, he does.
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