Vocal Range: 2.3 and a semitone octaves. E3- Bb5 (approx)
Longest Note:10 seconds - 'The Silence'
Vocal Pluses: Rich, deep, silky texture that permeates the low to midrange. Her chest voice impressively retains a weight even up into the fifth octave and has a raspy quality that adds an interesting texture to the voice. She is able to hold notes easily, with or without applying her quick vibrato.
Vocal Negatives: Her head voice is relatively weak and poorly connected to the rest of the voice.
Seen her live, this needs changing. She's an alto/mezzo not contralto...that toni braxton,she has incredible high notes!! Check out you broke my heart from overcome in the bridge, that A is there listen!! It fades after 5 seconds though! The silence belt is one of her longest too. Also she put high notes onto it too on the live version just after her ace belt. And there's a long one @ the end on the studio track too.
ReplyDeleteSeen her live, this needs changing. She's an alto/mezzo not contralto...that toni braxton,she has incredible high notes!! Check out you broke my heart from overcome in the bridge, that A is there listen!! It fades after 5 seconds though! The silence belt is one of her longest too. Also she put high notes onto it too on the live version just after her ace belt. And there's a long one @ the end on the studio track too.
ReplyDeleteShe can go realllly low and realllly high. Surely more than 2.4 octaves??
ReplyDeleteShe IS a mezzo, coz she has never been close to Adeles voice and although she prefers her deeper register, I think she can sing in the high/mid range at her best.
ReplyDeleteJust because she is not as deep as Adele does NOT make her any less of a contralto. Contraltos maybe rare in opera but we are talking about pop singers here. Therefore, its another ballgame altogether, with Alexandra I believe she is a contralto. Her voice will only get stronger and deeper with age. If you have a look at the how she speaks. She is clearly comfortable low. Moreover, good technique and training can make anyone's voice develop and be able hit notes outside of the norm for their voice type.
ReplyDeleteThis is a load of shit. Alexandra is a mezzo soprano. Want to hear an actual contralto? Then listen to Toni Braxton, Cher and Anita Baker. Toni would be a dramatic contralto. Alexandra is nowhere near as deep vocally as a contralto.
ReplyDeleteAlexandra is exactly a mezzo NOT a contralto.
ReplyDeleteOn her new album she hit a c#6, making her overall range E3-C#6. She's improved a lot vocally.
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Also her name is Alexander in the list, not Alexandra.
erm, no its not : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Burke. but thanks for the video.
ReplyDeleteShe's definitely NOT a mezzo !
ReplyDeleteShe's a Contralto . Just listen to her tessitura,to her timbre, and her comfortable range !
Excuse me , but I think alexandras voice is MUCH deeper than adeles voice !
ReplyDeleteContralto's sound manly/more androgynous throughout their voices, Alexandra doesn't. She's a pretty heavy mezzo.
ReplyDeleteNot necessarily. That really refers to the actual weight of the voice rather than its Type. Cher is a dramatic contralto who sort of popularized the Dark and heavy female sound but Mya is a contralto with one of the lightest voices I have ever heard.
ReplyDeleteAlexandra is a coloratura Lyric Contralto, the solidness is comparable to lady's Gaga's. she is one of the rare type of contraltos that has flexible and agile low voices with good placement in higher and lower passages. in other terms to make it sound less confusing, she is just a Light high contralto with agility and flexibility in her voice.
ReplyDeleteShe isn't a Coloratura Contralto (for Coloratura Contralto see Annie Lennox) , She's just purely a lyric contralto/Heavy mezzo Soprano.
ReplyDeleteAlex's voice isn't agile enough to be in the Coloratura category.
They said, Is she a light contralto to a dark mezzo?
ReplyDeleteYou think this C#6 is legit??
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnPHnh82-VY
I am away to my kip as all this profile hounding is knackered me LOL
Could reasonably be either a lighter contralto or a deeper mezzo-soprano voice. I think her training and further material will help us get a better idea. Her performances on X Factor suggest one of those two. She sounds best in the lower midrange but the thickness of Toni Braxton's contralto voice was not exactly mimicked in her cover of "Unbreak My Heart." Her voice was deep but she had a noticeably lighter vocal weight. Even though her head voice is not accessed consistently, her E5 belts on her cover of "Candyman" were significant and didn't seem too labored.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrdu4Q1rlTg
She is a deep mezzo soprano, I think the huskiness of her tone could make one think she is a contralto, Adelle's voice is darker and sits in in a lower place.
ReplyDeleteMy verdict is that it is legit. It checks out on the piano. She easily reached A5 and C6 in those studio recordings and the C#6 sounds like her. I see she's been working on her head voice since her X Factor win. This brings her sung vocal range to E3 to C#6, just a bit under three octaves.
ReplyDeleteI agree, she's a mezzo. Her sung range is now E3 to C#6 and when combined with her vocal characteristics, I find her to fit the mezzo-soprano label best. The voice is not as dark or weighty as a contralto even though it does have depth and huskiness to it.
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