Can anybody be a countertenor?

Countertenors are still quite rare, though. How did you realise this was your voice type? There are very very few countertenors around, it’s not a voice that, in inverted commas, is natural. When boys’ voices break the voice they tend to sing with is their speaking voice.

What makes someone a countertenor?

A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5, although a sopranist (a specific kind of countertenor) may match the soprano’s range of around C4 to …

Is a countertenor rare?

A countertenor is a male singer who can sing as high as a soprano or mezzo-soprano. The countertenor is the rarest of all voice types.

Was Bobby Hatfield a countertenor?

The combination of Medley’s deep baritone and Hatfield’s pure countertenor gave a rich sound to their chosen genre of music, which leaned heavily on R&B. They first caught the ear of the R&B crowd in 1963, with “Little Latin Lupe Lu” and were getting bookings before people actually knew who they were.

Why do people consider a countertenor to be a high voice?

Because people when they hear falsetto – when they hear a countertenor – they think of it as a high voice. Actually, I count myself as what we’d class an alto in a woman. The range that I sing is probably a couple of octaves – from the G below middle C to the G two octaves above that.

How high can a countertenor sing?

And there are some countertenors who may sing a whole fourth higher than that. They may be happy around a middle C but not too much below and they may go up to a top C. So in comparison to another voice type, it’s the equivalent of a female singer who sings mezzo-soprano or contralto.

Is there such a thing as a countertenor?

Countertenors are still quite rare, though. How did you realise this was your voice type? There are very very few countertenors around, it’s not a voice that, in inverted commas, is natural. When boys’ voices break the voice they tend to sing with is their speaking voice.

Can you sing countertenor in football?

If you go to a football crowd you don’t hear people singing countertenor, they naturally shout out in their bass, baritone or tenor voice. And that’s what I did when I first encountered my lower speaking voice – I sang bass for a bit.