Vocal Range: 3 Octaves 3 notes and a semitone (C3- F#6)
Whistle Register: Yes
Longest Note: 12 seconds - 'Over The Rainbow' (live)
Vocal Pluses: Technical singer, with the dexterity to sing complex melisma and the stamina to hold notes easily. The voice has an overarching sweet and light tone. The texture of the mid-range, and the head-voice can be alternated between a smoky timbre and a clearer one depending on choice. The chest voice is strongest and most resonate in its lower half (from a B4 to a C5) but is capable of extending up to a G5 where it becomes brighter, and lighter but with noticeably less resonance. Finally, the head voice is pure and rounded, sounding easily accessible and connected to the range as a whole.
Vocal Negatives: Control of low notes is shaky and sometimes higher belted notes are reached without mixing, leading to a harsher tone. The vibrato can also sound unwieldy at times.
can u check the longest notes here- watch leonas tour dvd- i am sure her high notes in cant breathe/run/first time ever i saw ur face/outta my head etc were longer! can u check tyhem all?
ReplyDeletehello aaron, if i can find the clips then I shall check the notes out! Thanks for the tip
ReplyDeleteThe highest note should be F#6 in loving you. Could you double check that please?
ReplyDeletedone and done Mr anon!
ReplyDeleteYou haven't added that she can reach the whistle register.
ReplyDeleteShe's the best of them all and she goes higher and lower than that, her chest notes are so high they're supposed to get thinner(but i see where you're coming from) and hew lower chest voice is much better than 99.99 % of singers out there, and hell she can sustain them. I think she is the best singer in the world because of her extremely pleasant tone, her extremely amazing falsettos and her ability to change registers so easily, she has such a nice nice tone that you can hear her sing and never get irritated.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I love the timbre and tone of her voice. I usually prefer mezzos instead of soprans (most of them sound pitchy) but I just love Leona's voice.
ReplyDeletekindly visit http://www.thedivajuice.com/2011/11/leona-lewis-vocal-profile.html for more details explaination about Leona's Vocal profile.....
ReplyDeleteshes like mariah -
ReplyDeleteshe has a wide range and can hit high notes without them sounding harsh like beyonce's higher notes
In your description you say "extending up to a G, two octaves above middle C" - middle C is C4, she would have to be singing a G6 in "chest voice". I think you mean one octave haha!
ReplyDeleteHer control of her low notes might be shaky at times, but like in her recent performance of Hurt on X Factor UK, she has gotten so much more comfortable there - and it's far stronger than any other sopranos currently out, most mezzos and is the equivalent of most altos currently out. In comparison to the rest of her range, it is shaky, but in the broad spectrum, not so much.
Just a few thoughts :) x
Thanks for the spot!
ReplyDeleteThere is something amazing about her tone alright, its like smooth chocolate ! Her lower notes can be shaky but she can still hit them!
ReplyDeleteOh Leona. One of the best vocalists in pop currently. Has an incredible belting power that sounds very confident and powerful until she reaches F5 at that point she sounds more like she is yelling. Her Falsetto in my opinion sounds a bit generic, childish, and cheesy but her head voice is phenomenal. The few whistle notes she has shown were all ascended in to but still sound amazing. Bad lower range. Her tone might also not be for everyone along with her style of singing. Some say her singing style makes her sound like she is crying halfway through songs as her voice can get very shaky.
ReplyDeleteVery good , but i have some more info, she has done a B2 in her hurt EP and also in her cheast voice it can go up to A5 , but i think its a G#5 ot an A5
ReplyDeleteMezzo-Soprano? No way, both her range and her voice are the one of a soprano, maybe a spinto.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing "technical" about her. Gifted vocalist, yes. But atrophic lows, a weak middle and thin highs is nothing to praise. And she uses a falsetto, not a connected head voice.
ReplyDeleteno shes a mezzo soprano, soprano vocal ranges bottom out usually somewhere on the fourth octave where as mezzos go straight to the third.
ReplyDeleteI think it's obvious that her F#6 is a head note not a whistle.
ReplyDeleteOne of the best singers of this generation. I am a huge fan of her work, although I do admit that her lower range is weak, she always gets me at the high notes. It's ear heaven.
ReplyDeleteI'm not so sure shes a mezzo because, sopranos can do notes in 3rd octave with a mic. If you compare her high C (C6) to her F3s, I'd say she's more comfortable in the C6.
ReplyDeleteI think this means, G after C4 which is G4 then G5.
ReplyDeleteI would disagree that she uses Falsetto all the time. Maybe under E5 to get the emotion but her C6s are head voice. Falsetto is suppose to sound airey but her C6s doesn't. The vocal on can't breathe, db6 eb6 db6 bb5 sounds like head voice.
ReplyDeleteThere is a high belt on you don't care. Sustained F5 then F5 to G5 (some say upto G#5 by I haven't checked it yet) which doesn't sound thin to me.
She is probably in my opinion the most training singer in the upper range. Having said that, she covered a Mariah song when when was younger and was hitting G#3s (or G3s) really well.
Also, her low register has gotten stronger. I think I read somewhere that improving your lower register will help with the high register.
Mezzo-Soprano? That's ridiculous! Everything her tessitura, timbre, comfortable range, even her head voice ... are from a typical soprano!
ReplyDeleteThe range doesn't matter in classification. The only thing that matters in range is the comfortable zone. The lows and highs are not depending of the classification. I heard lots of sopranos with amazing C3s, and contraltos with strongs C6... Go figure!
ReplyDeleteShe's a soprano.
ReplyDeleteyeah. agree. should check on her tessitura and vocal weight.
ReplyDeleteHer longest note is in her performance of Run and Hurt!
ReplyDeleteshe hold a note for 15 secs in the royal variety show when she sings hurt.
ReplyDeleteHonestly I love her, but her low notes are really iffy. Anyway i've asked my vocal coach about falsetto and headvoice. It turns out there the same thing people can just manipulate it to be more breathy or more fuller in sound. Leona's falsetto/headvoice is very pretty and she has a lot of control and ease. She could sing opera with her voice.
ReplyDeleteshes has a beautiful voice she needs to use it more
ReplyDeleteShe's easily one of the best singers of our generation. I love her voice so much, it's like the voice of an angel. :')
ReplyDeleteShe's easily one of the best singers of our generation. I love her voice so much, it's like the voice of an angel. :')
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Sounds like a soprano with a heavier vibrato and color to some of her notes -- making her sound very mezzo-like. The fact that she struggles in the third octave screams soprano to me. Tessitura seems on the high side, too.
ReplyDeleteShe's really good. Didn't she do a full voice G5 in happy? And also her tessitura is of a soprano's not a mezzo's. But her color is not very soprano like...
ReplyDeleteI think it's obvious that her F#6 is a head note not a whistle.
ReplyDeleteNot only this is totally wrong because she's obviously a light-lyric soprano (she may have a decent middle-bottom because she has a good cavity, but what mezzo on earth can go that far with head voice?and I'm sorry but have you ever heard a real mezzo in your life?the timbre is much much different, notes below the middle C should be full and vibrant and Leona's are weak and airy)
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Leona herself claimed that she would like to start an operatic career and sing Lakmé, which is the ultimate HIGH SOPRANO role!!!A mezzo with a very very wide range can sing a high C at most, Leona in the song "happy" sings it just as easilly as saying "good morning", strange for a mezzo isn't it?
why do you make blogs without having the competence to judge voices?
This pisses me off, music is serious and it should be studied well before acting like "experts", if you like pop music stick with it but please, leave operatic terms alone untill you really know them ;)
Leona Lewis does have a wide range and super high head voice / falsetto, but she does not possess a true whistle register.
ReplyDeleteoh that i agree but she has a lot of weight in her voice over all. she also has trained classically as a mezzo soprano not a soprano.
ReplyDeletethere is also a difference between singing in full voice and going into falsetto, which woman can do but it is far more blended than that of men. her headvoice can mix very well with her upper range as with a lot of contraltos. There is also the fact that contraltos and mezzos actually sit within a similar range which is why a mezzo soprano and a contralto are put into the alto position during choral music.
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