Mariah Carey’s Entire Octave Range Is Not Seven Or Five
Submitted anonymously:
For those of you who remember Mariah was in the Guinness Book of World Records not to long ago for having a five octave range and singing a G7# when she sang the National Anthem. But that’s not true. The note she sang was a B6. You can play this note on the piano if you don’t believe me. However it was later found out that there was some tampering going on with the sound equipment and so she’s supposedly no longer in the book.
If you’ve been musically trained you know that octaves are arranged C D E F G A B and then C’. There are 8 octaves on the piano and to count octaves you start with the lowest note and count to the same note in the next octave until you get the range. Now in order for Mariah to sing all eight octaves she’d have to be able to sing several notes lower than what any man can which is impossible even for someone with her range. The lowest most men can sing is a G2 while there are those like Viktor Wichniakov (a male opera singer) who can sing C2 (C1 in European standard). Mariah’s lowest note she ever sung was C3 at the end of My All, and the beginning of Emotions, and You’re So Cold–not A2 or D3 like some people keep saying.
A singer’s true range is measured by the number of notes they can actually SING–not necessarily HIT. You see, in actuality Mariah can only sing up to D7. The E7 she hit on Emotions (album version), the F7 she hit on All in Your Mind, and the G7 she hit in 2 live versions of Emotions were all done when she was either congested or sick. You see in order to access what is called the flageolet register the vocal cords are held closely together and a high pitched sound moves up into the sinus cavities. When a singer is sick or congested the vocal cords become swollen making it easier to access this range but it can throw a singer off a little when this happens. This explains why none of Mariah’s songs with the exception of Emotions, and All In Your Mind have been written to go higher than D7. Mariah herself has said that she’s hit notes she can no longer do. If you’ve ever heard the clip of Mariah singing All In Your Mind acapella you’ll notice she can’t go higher than D7. You can find that clip by going here
www.geocities.com/notes_and_octaves/mariahcarey.html
You’ll also find a clip of Mariah singing her G7 and a G7# (it was unintentional because it didn’t match the melody) But I doubt some of the accuracy of what the author has written about Mariah’s range. That’s why I’m telling the information now so that nobody will get confused. Now if you have been paying attention Mariah’s range (C3 to D7) is 4 octaves and 1 note.
Next Mariah has 2 top vocal registers she can use. One is called the “Whistle Voice” and the other is called “Super Head Voice”. Contrary to popular belief whistle voice can be used by both females AND males. That’s right–MEN can do it too. The only reason hardly anybody uses it is because the voice can be hard to control since the sound is moving into the nasal cavity and so it sounds soft and has a low volume. Super head voice on the other hand has a higher volume and a sharper sound and it doesn’t really move up in the sinus cavities. It DOES take a little more effort than whistle voice but it’s easier to control. It also sounds higher than whistle voice but it’s the EXACT same range–whistle voice has a lower volume because the tone of the voice is airy while super head voice isn’t.
And guys CAN sing as high as women. And woman CAN learn to sing as low as men (alto’s are most likely able to do this). The lower your is the wider you can develop your range with practice. If you’ve heard of Adam Lopez then you probably know he can sing D7 using super head voice. Technically he doesn’t hold the record for highest note ever because Betty Wright also uses super head voice and when she appeared on Making the Band II (when she was teaching Sara how to control her voice) she sang Eb7 which is higher than D7 by a semitone so if anybody holds the record for singing the highest note ever it’s neither Mariah or Adam it’s Betty Wright. Mariah could HIT those notes when she was sick but she couldn’t hold them because THE NOTES IN THE 7TH OCTAVE ARE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO ACTUALLY SING. I don’t expect many people to know this but this is the reason why no opera has ever been written in the 7th octave.
In conclusion I would also like to say that it IS possible to have a range wider than Mariah (Mariah fans don’t hate me for this because I’m a fan of her too) I have a range wider than Mariah (since I’m a baritone) I can sing down to a Bb1 and up to a G6 or higher) But neither Whitney Houston or Christina Aguilera have a wider range. Whitney has a 3 octave range (C3 to C6–she did C6 on How Will I Know) and Christina has close to a 3 and a half octave range (E3 to G6#–the note she sang on The Christmas Song was D6 in super head voice).
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July 25th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
soory but you are wrong. i’m not a mariah’s fan but her range is G#2 made during an interview and A2 in some songs. her highest note is G#7 made in a performance of emotions in 1991…. so that her range goes from G#2 to G#7. Moreover christina’s lowest live note is C3 made in some performances of At last. her highest live note is A6 during Por siempre tu live in caracas. so her live range is C3-A6. it’s true that in the christmas song she hit a D6 but after that note there’s her famous C#7. search some videos on youtube to understand. i leave you three videos in particular that you must see:
- it.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aH_DCsHcg ….this is about mariah’s live range
- it.youtube.com/watch?v=mKYhQFCsUxU ….this is about xtina’s live range
- it.youtube.com/watch?v=5lkXlk30amw ….this is about xtina’s studio range
read the cooment of this last video cause it says that her lowest note is C3
July 29th, 2008 at 3:04 am
Welcome to the 21st century..nobody cares about ‘octave’ other than Lambs who have been brainwashed since the 90s.
July 29th, 2008 at 5:49 am
it’s not true.. some people care about octaves. how many times do you hear people talking about mariah’s octaves? i think a million times. On youtube there are lots of videos about octaves
July 30th, 2008 at 10:56 am
What makes a good singer? Apart from measured by the number of notes they can actually SING and HOLD, not necessarily HIT- I agree!
Moreover, the ability to interpret the lyrics turning into a ‘believable’ live performance without overdoing it, versatility, good technique and fresh.
Whitney is the VOICE of our time and sorry, the rest is just a footnote below her.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
i love whitney’s voice is my second favourite singer but the first is christina aguilera. she has such a strong voice, such a high whistle register. moreover the highest live whitney’s note in chest voice is G5 while christina did a G#5/A5. in this place we are talking about whistles. don’t you think that christina goes pretty high? i really love whitney but here we are talking about whistles
August 7th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Wrong!!!! Mariahs Ranges are:
STUDIO RANGE: A2 – F7 (4 OCATVES, 4 NOTES)
LIVE RNAGE: G#2 – G#7 (5 OCTAVES)
Go on youtube.com and search calvin999999999 , and click on Mariah Carey Vocal Range and you will see :)
August 14th, 2008 at 6:33 am
i saw that video of mariah. (in youtube my name is rocketto8) this is what i was saying: mariah’s range is G#2-G#7
September 7th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
“Whitney is the VOICE of our time and sorry, the rest is just a footnote below her.”
Aw look, a snobby little fangirl! *points* Everyone take a picture, quick, before it runs away!
September 10th, 2008 at 3:44 am
we are talking about whislte register. so don’t talk about whitney cause she can’t whistle. we are talking about mariah carey and christina aguilera and their vocal ranges. whitney has just 3 octaves even if she has a great voice and she is the best singer with christina and mariah. anyway i’m sure christina can hit an E7 in fact even herself said that she never forcd hr voice actually her range is 4 octaves and a semitone (C3-C#7) while mariah has 5 octaves (G#2-G#7).
September 17th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
What about Pat Benatar?
She had a 4-5 octave range, I believe.
You’re right about Mariah, and she, Christine Aguilera both are nasal – comment on that?
Pat Benatar was NEVER nasal; she and Whitney both had better tone.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Mmmm I just wanna point out some things..
About the low note thingies and Wichnakov thing…Uhmm hello she’s a woman…Do you really expect that she can reach bass??? And as far as I know nobody claims that she can sing/hit 8 octaves…As far as I know the claim is only 5 octaves…And yeah let’s just say the highest notes were just some luck but she sang them with EASE and she can hit them EASILY..and she sings so easily not like others who push and push…
October 15th, 2008 at 7:44 am
This post if full of a jealous whitney lover. You dont have to be sick to sing the whistle register. You just have to have talent, it is classified a gift. When your sick and your throat is hurting, please try to access it, i wonder how you throat will feel. Plus she has done it live many many times and she wasnt sick…
October 18th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
you are wrong!! check out for “You and I” tribute to stevie wonder where she hits a G2 lol and she has hit G#7 and wasn´t sick because she can´t do the whistle if she is sick…besides she no longer is on the guiness book coz Georgia brown can hit a G9 and got the throne now…get ur facts straight before talking
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:30 pm
no mariah’s lowest note is G#2 and georgia’s highest note is G10 and not G9
October 29th, 2008 at 9:49 am
She can’t really sing, but people think that she can because she sings in her highest register.
The only reason she can sing in that is because she has nodules that make it easier for her to zip up her vocal chords.
November 4th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
She’s an amazing singer. Beyonce has a 3.2 octave range.
November 7th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
mariah carey h8rs,if its dat easy 2 sing like her n its not a gift then please,feel free 2 show me wot u got.giv it ur best shot let’s hear…thot so!u can h8 all u want bt she’s stil makin n breakin records.she’s beat elvis presley’s record n hopefully she’l beat d beatles’ record soon n u’l stil b arguin about dis.get a life!!
November 10th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson are both better singers.
Jennifer Hudson is better at singing than Beyonce and Mariah Carey. What I mean on the she can’t sing part is that she can’t sing as well as people really think she can. She can sing, but mostly sounds better in studio at times than she does live. Like when she sang the “star spangled banner.” She can sing though.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Minnie Riperton is and was definitely better than Mariah Carey.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:10 am
what a load of sh**
November 16th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
LMFAO!!! Some people are just…ok…
Mariah’s vocal range is EXACTLY 5 octaves, nothing more nothing less. Her lowest note was sung during an interview when she did a vocal run going down to G#2. She has sung a A2 during a “Yours” performance in a UK tv show in 2003. In the “You And I” performance she hit Bb2 a couple of times and loads of sustained with vibrato C#3 and Eb3 notes. Her highest note was a G#7, wich she clearly did with complete ease and effortless. It was on the Emotions performance in the MTV Awards in 1991. On that final run she did a G#7 followed by a G7. She also did G7’s and F#7’s in other live performances of the same song and there is proof to substanciate these claims…both video and audio proof. The whole “notes that are hit shouldn’t count” argument is pathetic bullsh**. There’s a lil’ technique called “staccato”, used in opera as well…it’s where you ony HIT notes. It’s what Mariah did in those G#7, G7 and F#7 runs in “Emotions” and also what she did in “All In Your Mind” with those F7 notes (she also proved more than able to do this song live with the high notes with ease…and she surpassed even the studio recordings). So yes, hit notes are obviously counted as well as long as they’re incorporated in the music.
And no, I’m not a fan of hers. Used to be but no longer am. However, facts are facts.
November 18th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Minnie Riperton had a five and a half octave range.
Who do you think has a wider range.??..
November 18th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Minnie Riperton of course. She sang higher than Mariah ever has.
November 18th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Wrong! Minnie had a 4,5 octave range. It is SAID she once hit an A7 in a live performance but there’s no proof AT ALL of that. The highest she displayed was D7. Even if she did, to have a 5,5 octave range she’d have to be able to go down to D2…when her lowest note is D3. That’s actually 4 octaves but I believe she was able to go a few more notes above D7 so yeah, let’s say 4,5 octaves.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:01 am
Mariah Carey is the BEST singer in the WORLD. No matter what anyone says, she has every special characteristic any good singer has, plus a million of her own. In other words, if she sang someone else’s song, she would sing it even better than the original singer; but if someone, if anyone, tried to sing ANY of Mariah’s songs – they would like idiots and sound like fools. Not only that, but Mariah’s lyrics are amazing. They’re inspiring, emotional, so well written and beautiful. Totally her own, unique style, and her 18 number one hits are the support. She’s just one around the Beetles, and just so happened to come out with an album THIS YEAR after being in the music industry for 20 years now. She writes her own songs, produces them, and sings them. She’s got the hugest range, best control, most gorgeous voice. She’s definitely the best singer in this world. No doubt!
November 21st, 2008 at 1:06 am
She has so many albums, the most beautiful Christmas album (which is also the most successful xmas album of all time – and we get to listen to it next month!! yay!) and I don’t even know how many songs. She began in the 1990’s and she’s still around, with better music than anyone. She never loses trend, stays in with what’s going on and keeps coming out with music that fits the crowd. She can go so low, yet so high. And all the bullsh** about nodules she may have that make it easier to hit high notes, or her being sick during performances in order to hit those notes is all crap said out of ignorance and jealousy for her one and only voice. she’s the most talented person on EARTH! For anyone that doesn’t understand or agree, listen to at least 10 of her number ONES (google it if u must) and prove me wrong!
November 21st, 2008 at 1:09 am
Find ONE singer that has as MANY songs as Mariah Carey, who WROTE the lyrics to EACH and EVERY one of them!
November 21st, 2008 at 7:14 am
Whitney Houston and Beyonce` have the better voices. Mariah Carey definitely doesn’t have the best or widest range. Minnie Riperton did have a wider range than she did, she’s just said to have a wider range because of her million dollar insured legs and boob job. The fact is that she’s a marketing genius like Britney Spears.
She has a nice voice and everything but the reason why she sold so many albums was because she’s so intersting to the public. Of course Whitney had the bigger and better voice, and Beyonce` has more control. One of the reason’s why she had gotten to where she is today was because she did you know what with her first husband.
AND THAT’S THE TRUTH.!!!!!..
November 21st, 2008 at 7:15 am
THERE ARE A THOUSAND MORE GIRLS WHO CAN SING BETTER THAN SHE CAN.
December 16th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Um a piano has a little over 7 octaves not 8
guess you weren’t musically trained…
January 9th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
LMAO at this article. WHO CARES! GET A LIFE
January 13th, 2009 at 6:04 am
This is humorous. What is intriguing me is how some say within this article (which includes the author) is stating that, hitting the note is not singing the note. Last I checked in my musical and singing theory, when you hit the note with a certain technique to shape the note (which is known as stacatto) is singing the note. ( I absolutely agree with Crackhead) In her live version of Emotions in MTV 1991 I believe, she sings the notes MELODICALLY correct. She goes up the scale, a portion, where thereby proves that she sings it. As well as even belting the note which she does is classified as singing. What confused me as well is, that she was supposedly “sick and her voice was congested”. According to my piano teacher and my theory books, there is no way you can belt a whistled register note if your sick. That is obviously stupid. Your sick and your whistling a F7/G7. Yeah Ritio, I’m sick and I can sing A1. Yeah Totally… And the statement of how men and female can hit the same notes as well as sing. That is true. But many males (this is basically generalised) used the falsetto to hit female notes. For example, males trying to sing Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” which is set around more than 12 bars of belting E5. Highly unusual to see a male to belt E5 correctly without falsetto. Many males tend to utilise falsetto when it passes the C above middle (C5). Also when people are saying that there is a significant difference between hitting a note and singing the note. True, but we are talking about vocal range. That thereby means, your range of hitting AND singing, which last time I checked, she can do both with her 5 octave range.
Sheesh people…. Get your facts straight before twisting Mariah Carey’s vocal range around…
January 15th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Any mezzo-soprano can hit the same set of notes she does with a full voice without making that stupid squeal.
She has the same range as Yma Sumac.
You don’t have to squeak or scream to hit an A7.
January 17th, 2009 at 11:55 am
So, You have a range wider than Mariah? Can we have a proof like a video…. just so u can prove people (including me) wrong for thinking thats a load of bullsh*t…
January 18th, 2009 at 5:00 am
fu** y’all!!!you don’t know anything about music so don’t pretend that y’all do… and for the author of this article, research everything before you post, dumb ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 18th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
what is minnie ripperton musical range because I saw somewhere where she was pitching d7 and there is a rumoured E flat 7.does anybody know if that is true
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:57 am
First of all Alex, all that I’m saying is true about her vocal nodules.
Don’t get it twisted!
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:58 am
And I did do research, I don’t need a video for whai I said to be true.
If you want proof do the research like I did.
Don’t you feel moted.
January 30th, 2009 at 10:21 am
you can look it up for yourself of course.
February 16th, 2009 at 5:18 am
OMGG CANN ALL YOU’S STOP HATING ON MARIAH SERIOUSLY YOU OBVIOUSLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HER. I WILL GIVE YOU MY REASON WHY SHE IS THE BEST SINGER IN THIS WORLD, SHE WRITES ALL HER SONGS AND THEY ALL ARE INSPIRATIONAL, EMOTIONAL, MOVING, TOUCHING AND UNFORGETABLE THEY HELP ALOT OF PEOPLE GET THROUGH HARD TIMES IN THEIR LIFE INCLUDING ME, MARIAH HAS A GOD GIVEN TALENT AND I AM THANKFUL TO GOD FOR BLESSING SUCH A BEAUTIFL INSPIRING TALENTED WOMEN MRS MARIAH CAREY :) SHEE ISNT JUST THE BEST SELING FEMALE ARTIST SHE HAS ALSO MORE #1 HITS THEN ELVIS PRESLEY SHE HAS 18 GOING ON 19 IF WE CAN MAKEE MY LOVE #1 WICH IM SURE WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN COZ HER FANS LOVEE HER AND WILL SUPORT HER IN ANYTHING SHE DOES JUS LKE ME=) MARIAH ALSO HAS A GREAT PERSONALITY AND THE BEST SENCE OF HUMOUR AND SHE IS A VERY FUN PERSON EVEN THO I DNT KNOW HER PERSONALY I CAN TELL IN HER INTERVIEWS. I LKE TO SEE YOU TRY SING ONE OF MARIAH’S SONG. HMM I WONDER WHAT U’S HAVE ACHIVED IN LIFE BESIDES BEING ON THE COMPUTER HATING ON CELBES AND ARGUING OVER SOMETHING SO SMALL THAT PROPABLY ISNT WORTH IT BUT BY THE LOOKS OF IT YOU’S HAVE ALL THE TIME IN YOUR LIFE. OHH AND MARIAH ALSO WAS POOR GROWING UP SHE HAD NOTHING SHE DIDNT GO ON AMERICAN IDOL TO BE NOTICED SHE DID IT THE HARD WAY THE BEST WAY AND THE SMART WAY LOOK AT HER NOW. SHE IS A WORLD WIDE CELEBRITY AND ONE OF THE BEST ROLE MODELS. SO I THINK IT ABOUT TIME YOU’S ALL STOP HATING UNLESS YOU DNT HAVE A LIFE OR NOTHIGN BETTER TO DOO BUT DO WAHT U WANT COZ IT DNT EFFECT ANYONE NOT EVEN MC SHE DNT TAKE NO NOTICE TO THE HATERS COZ SHE KNOWS SHE HAS ALOT OF REAL/COMMITED/DEVOTED FANS AND I AM ONE OF THEM AND PROUD OF IT:) LOL AND YEAH I PROPBABLY WENT A BIT OVER BOARD:P BUT THATS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLEE DIS MARIAH OR HATE ON HER.
PLEASEE MARIAH I WISH FOR YOU TO COME TO AUSTRALIA ONE DAY:’(
GOD BLESS MARIAH SOME MROE!!
I LOVEE MARIAH CAREYYY :)
MARIAH CAREY LAMB FOR LIFE (Y)
February 17th, 2009 at 10:44 am
She just has marketing smarts. She’s definetely not the best singer in the world and she got to the top by dating her manager.
February 18th, 2009 at 4:04 am
Well the highest note i can hit is the C#8 (same as Adam Lopez … dammit >.< ), but the highest note I can hold is G#7, just a few notes lower.
Anyway, apparently when Mariah hit that G#7 live, the sound had been tampered with which was one of the many reasons she got removed off the Guinness World Records Book. But, indeed she has got quite a great voice and yes I am a fan of her, but she hasn’t got the highest vocal range.
But … on another note … there’s a singer called Camille with a song called Money Note where she goes into the 8th octave in the back, and you can hear it on youtube if you wish to listen to the song, and see a singer with a higher vocal range.
February 18th, 2009 at 4:08 am
oh and forgot to say I could hit the C#8 when I had a cold too, because I practice it a lot lol. But anyway, when your sick you have to put a little more effort if you’ve got phlegm blocking your airways. But yeah I can go high whilst sick.
February 19th, 2009 at 7:10 am
The only reason why Mariah was able to hit these notes was because of her nodules. What happened to her voice, she sounded terrible on X-factor and Obama’s inaugural ball. She has been seen smoking a few times.
February 25th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Sorry everybody but I have to update all of you!!! GEORGIA BROWN is the official holder of 2 vocal range records on GUINNESS BOOK. She’s a great R&B/Soul singer she has 8 octaves G2 to G10 check her voice at: youtube.com/georgiabrown and her
my space: myspace.com/georgiabrownsinger . I was searching for singers whistlers and I descovered her! Powerful and Impressive artist!
It will be great you know this wonderful singer!!!
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:17 am
I’ve heard her sing and she cannot sing good. she only has a wide range. You can have the widest range and still not know how to sing. Britney Spears makes better music than Georgia Brown.
March 5th, 2009 at 9:51 am
all ive gotta say is ‘mariah Carey: O Holy night from the chritms album 1994 find it and listen to it’, in my opinion that took her to a higher level ive ever herd from anyone in my life: whitney, jennifer etc, it put her up their with pavaroti obvi not the vocal range but the power of the sound. ive never found whitneys voice that good its amazing but very limited theres only power in whitneys and jennifer voices, listenin to mariahs early 90s stuff (fu** the mainstream singles) everything else on the albums i was fu**in fascinated she sounded super human. she can’t do it no more but the point is she did it.
March 8th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I can sing and hold C7 pretty easy, and when I’m sick I can go off the piano. But I’m not alloud to sing in the house, in case I brake the crystal glasses. Not to mention, it kills my ears!
March 14th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
come to divadevotee.blogspot.com to hear her lowest(g2) and highest note(f7)
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:29 am
im nikko ..
i love music !! and i even do whistle ..
but i dont know how many octave that i can hit, but i can reach the whistle of mariah in “MINE AGAIN” atlast 7-8 seconds with curls..
is anybody can tell me??
>any way i reALY LOVE THIS SITE
even your discussions guys
am gonna read every comments of each participants,
cutie ,
nikko ..
May 11th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
What about Greg Pritchard? He was featured on britain’s got talent. He’s very rough and received a shock factor award in this arena due to his age/looks
May 17th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Rapheal thanx bro . I cudnt have said it betta . If mariah sing it or hit it (G7) doesnt matter . Coz no one else has done what she does . And 4 u haters . Back the hell of coz if u have ever notice when searchng 4 vocal abilities u would find mariah name there . Even thow u hate her doesnt it mean that u have to write lies of her . Coz u knw wat ? Her lambs will always be here to back her up . AND LAST BUT DEFINITLY NOT THE LEAST . SHE IS THE BEST IN EVERYTHING
May 23rd, 2009 at 5:14 pm
First of all BLEAK I LOVE YOU. I heard about that other woman who has a range like Mariahs. Your RIGHT! I searched wikipedia.
There’s a lot of talk about how high Carey’s voice is.
Is someone really the best singer in the world because they can hit high notes? I bet Mariah fans hate Toni braxton and have a lot to say about her. Mariah Carey is a soprano. Not everyone is a soprano. To aspiring singers, this is kind of sad. If they don’t fit your mold of what a singer’s supposed to be( high notes, self-written songs) y’all say ef em. When did good singing become all about range?
May 23rd, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Even God sings in his spare time. I guess. God doesn’t make people better than him. He’s already the best at everything. He blesses people like Carey to inspire the world. That’s why she can definately be the best singer in the world but hardly be better than the creater who could sing much better in a heavenly duel. God blesses.
June 6th, 2009 at 9:11 am
At Maxine
Mariah Carey is an alto!!! Beacause what matters the most determining a range is the lowest note not the highest. (and G2# is about as low as it gets for a woman)
look it up
About Mariahs range.. A hit is a hit. 5 octaves it is.
But what really matters is the quality of a voice. Mariah Careys’ voice has good quality but some singers have better qualtities
That why I must say that Mariah may have a huge range.. but it is not the BEST range.
I listen to her songs 2 though
And to all people telling their own vocal ranges here.. idiots i bet you can’t even sing.
June 6th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Correction, what matters the most are the lowest note AND the the sound (light or deep/full) Judging Mariahs natural voice, she is definently an alto. She said so herself..
June 9th, 2009 at 6:17 am
There are singers that can sing better than Mariah Carey. Jenn Hudson, Fantasia, Beyonce`…(need I go on?).
Just because you have a wide range doesn’t mean your the best singer, just look at Georgia Brown, she can’t sing at all. She sounds like one of those dog whistles. she doesn’t have 5 octaves and she only gets so much recognititon cause she’s a marketing commercial genius.
June 13th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
bleak…JENN HUDSON IS ONLY LOUDER THAN MARIAH, WICH DOESENT MEAN BETTER, FANTASIA CANT SING BETTER, BEYONCE CANT SING BETTER..SOOO…YEA
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:10 am
Actually mariah holds notes in her live concerts like singing vision of love whistle note in C7 during TEOM tour….shd get your facts right if you are writing on your favorite singer….no offence
July 10th, 2009 at 4:06 am
Hello,
I love Mariah and Whitney actually and at least I now know how their voices ranges but what about Tina Arena?
I have been looking for her voice profile and couldn’t find any except that people are saying that she’s a dramatic soprano but I actually want to know Tina Arena’s range in octaves.
Anybody, musically trained here could possibly help? Thank You.
Derrick XXX
July 12th, 2009 at 9:29 am
All of you are talking about the Mariah Carey of the early ’90’s.
She was, back then, nothing short of amazing.
What we heard in the studio, she could easily do live, as evidenced by MTV’s “Unplugged” and at the “Grammy” shows, [Vision of love, If it's over] her technique back then was flawless.
At around 1995, she, on her own admission, said she was a workaholic, in the studio till 5 am, only to do morning shows, singing, talking. Back to the studio, so on and so forth, technique goes out the window, and you end up with nodules on your vocal chords. Nodules are bumps caused by singing incorrectly.
What results is a scratchy, dry sounding vocal, and the worst part of nodules?
The singer is left with half the range they had.
This is exactly what has happened to Mariah, it is NOT age, I know to you folks 14, 19, think 40 is old, not true.
The sad part of the whole story here, all of this could have been prevented with rest.
The damage is permanent.
July 18th, 2009 at 3:49 am
hello!!!!
Mariah Carey’s voice is so fresh that she hits the G#7 whistle trademark EFFORTLESSLY.
I think if you let other singers to perform the G#7, they would need to take a deep breath and SHOUUUUUUT!
in the just stand up(Take it as a sample for it), you could hear that she is performin’ the G#7
in the line of fergie. at the last part, you could hear her singing(with the G#7) [up, up ,up uuuupp!!!]
…so the octave 5 is it.
and bleak, you thin that mariah is not the best octaver singer, so go on with your feelings…
July 25th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
YOU ARE ALL WRONG. THE LIVE PERFORMANCE OF EMOTIONS SHE HIT A G7. HER LOWEST NOTE WAS A Bb2. SHE HAS NEVER TRIED TO BREAK HER OWN RECORD. HER OLD VOCAL COACH SAID SHE COULD SING OFF THE PIANO. IF SHE TRIED TO BREAK IT I’M SURE SHE COULD. SHE HAS A 5 OCTAVE RANGE. AS FAR AS WE KNOW! SHE COULD HAVE A WIDER RANGE THOUGH
August 23rd, 2009 at 4:24 am
The Best voice is Julie Andrews. She isn’t modern Pop but she can slay a legion of Mariah Careys with he NATURAL (Modal) Vocal range. Many may disagree with me but i don’t think Falsetto and whistle register should be considered part of someones range because it’s not part of their natural or modal voice. That being said Mariah’s Range is on;y about 2 Octaves of Natural modal singing voice. She can’t hit B6, BUT Julie Andrews can.
September 7th, 2009 at 9:23 am
will… u r the real one…
hey… falsetto n whistle register r part of singing n someone range…
n whistlin is not the only great thing bout MC… her vocal tone is very rich n soulful…. + she is one of some rare female singer who can sing in the lowest note for female….
n even toe there r svrl female singer who can hit whistle note but MC can sustain her whistleup to 18 scnds…. her chest voice is really rich the same goes to her low note voice…
September 9th, 2009 at 6:17 am
Beyonce, fantasia, and jenn hudson all have stronger voices and mariah. Mariah has a nice voice and all the other three are better and it’s not just them.
So yeah. And if ya didn’t know now ya do.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:22 am
I like Mariah Crey’s voice and all but she’s no better than any other singer. She can sing but let us be honest. Her voice and singing ability has gone down since her first coming out.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Mariah Carey has already been considered the best singer or the woman with the best voice of all time by people who know what they’re talking about,not a bunch of ” I know it all in this blog”. She does not have 7 octaves as firtly credited to her, but it is around 5 and 5.5, also the whistle register is not something common the experts say it is something unique and very few singers can do it. So her voice is considered to be very special indeed, unique in fact.
September 25th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
you ppl have absolutely no lives!!!
October 9th, 2009 at 10:35 am
She can’t touch Aretha Franklin or Whitney Houston. There are a lot of singers who are better than her. Just because you have a wide range doesn’t make you the best. She doesn’t have the widest range either. Don’t cise her.
October 9th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Does it really matter?? B, E, F, G, C whatever!! Mariah can hit some very high notes and let’s just leave it at that!!!
October 15th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Anybody that says that Fantasia, Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson are better singers are delusional, Mariah is a trillion times better than all of them, despite the fact that I love Beyonce and I like Jennifer Hudson. They are not nearly as good however. Fantasia is very whiny, exxtremely. Mariah is one of the greatest out there and those of you that think otherwise are jealous haters, she is better than Whitney but nobody beats Aretha Franklin.
October 27th, 2009 at 6:18 am
Mariah is the greatest, she proved that many times. The best female’s voice in the history of music.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
hmm, Mariah is definitely the best singer
“Emotions” was also one of her greatest songs proved that she could sing “LOW” notes and very “HIGH” notes.
bleak,,,,,, beyonce has only louder voice, and that doesn’t mean that beyonce is better than Mariah.
and, by just listening to the two voices, you can already compare who has better voice:
Is it Beyonce? or MARIAH?
another question bleak, can Beyonce really hit the G#7? have you heard her singing the whistle register?
and also, Mariah can hold whistle register notes long but steady which is rare to normal singers like her. (you can hear her performing that in the song “We Belong Together Remix Feat Jadakiss and Styles P.) even she consider herself as an alto(with 5-octave range) but her voice quality is really for sopranos…
October 29th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
and i also think that Beyonce could not even do he “Falsetto Register”, right?
October 30th, 2009 at 8:18 am
obviously speaking, it is mariah who won this pact… she is a mile ahead than any singer in this world… whitney’s voice is too common, it’s easy to imitate… christina’s is too, loud and a kinda eardrum-breaker, they’re both terrible singers, have you ever heard a voice similar to mariah’s? none… because mariah is mariah, she is gifted and deserves to be in prominence… she is very rare and we’re proud to have her…nobody can beat her… her super head voice can flush away whitney and christina, how come if we consider her whistle talents? all haters, you’re very annoying… you dont understand the principles of choosing the bestest singer, ad it’s mariah carey.. forever..
October 31st, 2009 at 1:29 am
go james!!!!!!!!
your the man!!!!!!!
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:38 pm
James said it all. Mariah is and always will b the best. Nobody can touch her.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:15 am
You have to be delusional if you think Mariah’s voice is better than Jennifer Hudson, fantasia, or whitney. They all have stronger better sounding voices. Just because you have a wide range doesn’t mean you can sing great. Whitney influenced Mariah not the other way around. Fantasia is more souful sounding than mariah and her hoarse dried up vocal chords. Mariah’s easy to imitate except for when she squeals. Beyonce’s voice is definetely musch more stronger than Mariah’s voice. Mariah’s performances ain’t lookin to good. Whitney will emberass Mariah on stage. Beyonce is not the one who screams Mariah is. Mariah does have a beautiful voice but it definitely is not the best. Whitney, Jennifer, Aretha, fantasia and Beyonce can sing circles around her. Whitney houston had a drug problem and still sounds better. I tell the truth and nothin but it.
November 20th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
I am a big beyonce fan… I was blown away by jennifer hudson`s ‘And I am Telling you’ … who is fantasia ?? .. i like Whitney and Aretha .. and i adore celine dion but my favourite is still Mimi, you all have your own opinions, but when it comes to chest belting they are better than her, although none of them can beat her with the rest of the registers. Mariah has strength and control in her voice: definetly better than Minnie when it comes to the whistle register.I believe that maria`s voice hss downgraded but she did hit those notes. Im not a music expert but Im trying to make a point that each one of these singers have gifts that shouldnt be argued about, because they are all unique :))