Could Celine Dion sing Opera?

Could Celine dion sing opera?

Celine Dion hitting some very operatic sounding notes during her vocal warm up. More on her vocal range and type here.

Watch Christina Aguilera perform "Bound To You" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Christina Aguilera performed another song from the Burlesque soundtrack, Bound to You, on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno.

The beginning, with its lower tessitura, sounded comfortable and in keeping with the recorded version of the beautiful ballad.  However, as the song hit its middle-eight and the higher belted notes began, it started to sound pretty shaky, with some of the top notes sounding out of tune and strained.

Overall it wasn't the most pleasant vocal to listen to. Hopefully it's not a reflection of the stress of the breakup and poor album sales affecting her.

Yma Sumac-Vocal Profile/ Range

Yma Sumac 

Vocal Type:  Soprano

Vocal Range: Bb2-c#7 (4 Octaves 1 Note and a semi tone)

Vocal Pluses: Strong  soprano voice, with a wide range. Unique technique.

Vocal Negatives:   Unusual vocal style may not be to everyone's taste.

Listen to Adele: "Rollin in the Deep" Original and Jamie XX remix

Adele "21" release
date 24th January 2011

British Soul Diva Adele returns with  Rollin' in the Deep taken from her second album 21.  Listen and enjoy  below.

Recommended: Listen to another track from 21 entitled "Someone like you"

Did Jessica Simpson rip off Mariah's "All I want for Christmas"?

Did Jessica Rip off Mariah?

Jessica Simpson has just released her first single from her new Christmas album "Happy Christmas" called "My only wish" and boy oh boy does it sound like Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas". It has the same lyrical content, the same melody and the same overall sound as Mariah's hit, with the only real change being the middle eight.

Fiona Apple- Vocal Profile/ Range

Fiona Apple  

Vocal Type:  Contralto

Vocal Range: 2 Octaves 5 notes C3-A5

Vocal Pluses: Gorgeous low tessitura and a brilliantly expressive voice.

  

Nadine Coyle's New single "Put your hands up" is actually Good! Take a listen

Nadine Coyle "Put your Hands up"

Nadine Coyle's second single "Put your Hands up" is a definite improvement on her last, and pretty poor, flop "Insatiable".The song itself is an electro-pop, dance floor groove that is built around a muted trumpet sample.

Unfortunately this song suffers the same problem, but to a lessor extent, as her last release in that it sounds dated. Luckily for Nadine it sounds nowhere near as a dated as "Insatiable" and a strange attempt at autotuning  her voice part-way through may  be enough to make it appeal to the younger fanbase she desperately needs for this to sell well and become a hit.

"Put your Hands up" deserves to go top 10 at least, as its actually a  good ,grown-up, pop song. However, it's going to need a big push promotionally for people to take notice because it doesn't scream "hit" straight away or have a gimmick for people to latch on to ("Promise me", anyone?).