Mariah Carey

Voice

Carey is credited as having a five-octave vocal range; she can cover all the notes from the alto range leading to those of a coloratura soprano http://www.bloggossip.com/index.php/index.php?print=981. Her vocal trademark is her ability to hit high notes in the whistle register. Carey has often been incorrectly been credited as having a 7 or even 8-octave vocal range. It has been suggested that Carey's publicists falsely claimed this at the start of her career http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/carey.htm, although it may also be a misstatement of the fact that Carey frequently accesses the whistle register, especially the notes situated in the seventh octave. So far her highest note is a G#7— five and a half steps above C7, the highest note on a standard keyboard — which she hit in live performances of "Emotions", at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards, and at the famous Arsenio Hall show. Her performance trademark is making fluttering motions with her left hand while she sings. Voice teachers have commented that this actually helps one's singing technique.

Related Topics:
Octave - Vocal range - Alto - Coloratura - Soprano - Whistle register - Seventh octave - Keyboard - Arsenio Hall

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