Celine's Octave Range

[gq183]

Well, in " New dawn" she sings a C3 (in the intro). The highest I've heard her go, was in "Le ballett" (the live version from Paris), and there she sings a C6. She hits that C effortlessly, so I think she most definitely can go higher than that, maybe as high as an F6. That would make her octave range about 3 1/2 octaves - which truly is amazing. Mariah has hit a B2 (in Looking in, God rest ye merry gentlemen, You and I), and she sang a G#7 (Emotions live, 1991). That's almost 5 octaves.

 

 

 

Oh but it was no a C6, the last note of a simple keybord is a C5

 

Hey, don't be whistling at me

 

No, I'm speaking in American terms.... C8 would then be the "last note" on a piano. In European terminology, the same note would be called C5. In Europe we start with C1 on the middle of the piano, but in the USA they call the very first C on the piano C1. That has many people confused, I can tell you.

[speedy]

Well, in " New dawn" she sings a C3 (in the intro). The highest I've heard her go, was in "Le ballett" (the live version from Paris), and there she sings a C6. She hits that C effortlessly, so I think she most definitely can go higher than that, maybe as high as an F6. That would make her octave range about 3 1/2 octaves - which truly is amazing. Mariah has hit a B2 (in Looking in, God rest ye merry gentlemen, You and I), and she sang a G#7 (Emotions live, 1991). That's almost 5 octaves.

 

 

 

Oh but it was no a C6, the last note of a simple keybord is a C5

 

Hey, don't be whistling at me

 

No, I'm speaking in American terms.... C8 would then be the "last note" on a piano. In European terminology, the same note would be called C5. In Europe we start with C1 on the middle of the piano, but in the USA they call the very first C on the piano C1. That has many people confused, I can tell you.

 

 

 

Can someone say what's the range of some of the best female voices? and chest voices too?

[salsacolin]

does anyone have an mp3 of this song?

[Dreamer]

Well, in " New dawn" she sings a C3 (in the intro). The highest I've heard her go, was in "Le ballett" (the live version from Paris), and there she sings a C6. She hits that C effortlessly, so I think she most definitely can go higher than that, maybe as high as an F6. That would make her octave range about 3 1/2 octaves - which truly is amazing. Mariah has hit a B2 (in Looking in, God rest ye merry gentlemen, You and I), and she sang a G#7 (Emotions live, 1991). That's almost 5 octaves.

 

 

 

Oh but it was no a C6, the last note of a simple keybord is a C5

 

Hey, don't be whistling at me

 

No, I'm speaking in American terms.... C8 would then be the "last note" on a piano. In European terminology, the same note would be called C5. In Europe we start with C1 on the middle of the piano, but in the USA they call the very first C on the piano C1. That has many people confused, I can tell you.

 

 

So you're saying it was a C6 in American terminology and in European terminology it was a C9??

Didn't get you

 

By the way we use the same terms once I live in Brazil

[cmcdaori]

im sorry for mariah carey fans.. but i do believe mariah's voice is gone. i watched her perform here last 2003 and her voice really sounds terrible LIVE. she's a studio singers and i always wonder what studio magic they are using because her songs are so super human. listen to mine again or never too far. but i believe she cant sing them live. i dont hate mariah but i think celine dion is far superior than her. celine managed to keep her voice clear for a long time. but whitney houston's and mariah's voice had deteriorated big time! whitney has a good excuse because of drugs. but mariah???why??? her fans always makes an excuses like she is not feeling well in a live performance, or her voice is not in good shape.. but hey!!! all, as in ALL her live performances, her voice is horible. watch the around the world dvd, and decide...

 

among her contempoaries, celine is one of only few artists that managed to keep their voices pure and sounds the same through a decade of their carreers.

 

 

I agree with you....Céline is the best...she is on the same level always...never changes and will never change....perfect

[celinerific]

I remember reading in a book that Celine has a vocal range of 6-8 octaves.

[deelicious07]

im sorry for mariah carey fans.. but i do believe mariah's voice is gone. i watched her perform here last 2003 and her voice really sounds terrible LIVE. she's a studio singers and i always wonder what studio magic they are using because her songs are so super human. listen to mine again or never too far. but i believe she cant sing them live. i dont hate mariah but i think celine dion is far superior than her. celine managed to keep her voice clear for a long time. but whitney houston's and mariah's voice had deteriorated big time! whitney has a good excuse because of drugs. but mariah???why??? her fans always makes an excuses like she is not feeling well in a live performance, or her voice is not in good shape.. but hey!!! all, as in ALL her live performances, her voice is horible. watch the around the world dvd, and decide...

 

among her contempoaries, celine is one of only few artists that managed to keep their voices pure and sounds the same through a decade of their carreers.

 

Very true. I think Celine has the better voice whether in the studio or LIVE. Mariah does not even sing as much as Celine does. Celine has used her voice a lot in the last 5 years and if she continues to take care of it she will sound even better in years to come. Celine will kick Mariah's #ss in any performance.

Edited December 23, 2007 at 09:41 PM by deelicious07

[Black Kitten]

im sorry for mariah carey fans.. but i do believe mariah's voice is gone. i watched her perform here last 2003 and her voice really sounds terrible LIVE. she's a studio singer and i always wonder what studio magic they are using because her songs are so super human. listen to mine again or never too far. but i believe she cant sing them live. i dont hate mariah but i think celine dion is far superior than her. celine managed to keep her voice clear for a long time. but whitney houston's and mariah's voice had deteriorated big time! whitney has a good excuse because of drugs. but mariah???why??? her fans always makes an excuses like she is not feeling well in a live performance, or her voice is not in good shape.. but hey!!! all, as in ALL her live performances, her voice is horible. watch the around the world dvd, and decide...

 

among her contempoaries, celine is one of only few artists that managed to keep their voices pure and sounds the same through a decade of their carreers.

 

Very true. I think Celine has the better voice whether in the studio or LIVE. Mariah does not even sing as much as Celine does. Celine has used her voice a lot in the last 5 years and if she continues to take care of it she will sound even better in years to come. Celine will kick Mariah's #ss in any performance.

agree!!! ill repeat, im no way a mariah carey hater. i adore her voice since i heard her albums music box and daydream. but those were the times when mariah is at the top of her game. afte daydream, her voice changed a lot. if she can sing great live like what her fans are saying, i dare mariah release a dvd of THE SESSIONS of her albums like celine did on her albums (fiy, ltal, tc) and just do what celine is doing. practicing the song, doing a vocal acrobats etc.. then believe me, ill adore her more than celine. (but that is impossible, believe me ) celine can sing L I V E!!!

[delo3934]

here's my question. has celine ever sang whistle register. some people in the forum have stated that celine did in a performance of love can move mountains but honestly i have never heard it so has anyone has? whistle register seems like she can do a little bit but does has anyone ever heard her do it. plus i think the lowes notes shes ever hit was in the intro of a new dawn and trhe highest chest/head voice notes afre from three songs in particular, naked, sorry for love, and nadie lo entiende. Edited December 24, 2007 at 01:01 AM by delo3934

[speedy]

here's my question. has celine ever sang whistle register. some people in the forum have stated that celine did in a performance of love can move mountains but honestly i have never heard it so has anyone has? whistle register seems like she can do a little bit but does has anyone ever heard her do it. plus i think the lowes notes shes ever hit was in the intro of a new dawn and trhe highest chest/head voice notes afre from three songs in particular, naked, sorry for love, and nadie lo entiende.

 

 

I've never here that registre from Celine, but that's not the most important, look at Mariah, she can do that but her real voice is sooo down

And celine has really low notes, most at the last years

[deelicious07]

here's my question. has celine ever sang whistle register. some people in the forum have stated that celine did in a performance of love can move mountains but honestly i have never heard it so has anyone has? whistle register seems like she can do a little bit but does has anyone ever heard her do it. plus i think the lowes notes shes ever hit was in the intro of a new dawn and trhe highest chest/head voice notes afre from three songs in particular, naked, sorry for love, and nadie lo entiende.

 

 

I think that the whistle register is garbage and very irritating. I like Celine's long and high notes.

[phemel]

A note about the whistle register:

 

Has anyone ever seen (or read, or listened to) the book/CD called "Can You Sing a High C Without Straining?" It's a fascinating read, because it talks about how anyone can sing the notes that Mariah Carey sings in the so-called "whistle register." By using a sort of combination between chest voice and head voice, you can make notes above your actual full, chest voice still sound like your chest voice. There is a very discreet, but recognizable difference between the actual chest voice and the "fake" chest voice, and if you hear it (or do it) enough, you'll be able to tell when a singer uses it. If this "fake" chest voice goes high enough, it becomes the whistle register.

 

Celine does, in a way, use whistle register (at least the same technique used to achieve it). Hear it for yourself: "Sorry For Love," around 3:15, when she says, "I'm not sorry..."

Edited December 24, 2007 at 04:00 AM by phemel

[Celine lover]

I'm soryy if this topic do exest but this is like a new obsession to me

 

Celine dion's vocal range

they say in youtube she have 3.2 octaves

and I read somewhere that Celine have 4.1 octaves ( Bb2 - B6)

 

but I never found online any note shows higher than a C6 of Celine

is that true

 

so this is my Quetion

 

what's Celin's vocal range ?

 

and if she can reach higher than C6 please give something to proof it

 

also can Celine Whistle (not that I like whistling at all but I do hate people who say Mariah is the Best ) ?

 

thanx

[Claudette]

I'm soryy if this topic do exest but this is like a new obsession to me

 

Celine dion's vocal range

they say in youtube she have 3.2 octaves

and I read somewhere that Celine have 4.1 octaves ( Bb2 - B6)

 

but I never found online any note shows higher than a C6 of Celine

is that true

 

so this is my Quetion

 

what's Celin's vocal range ?

 

and if she can reach higher than C6 please give something to proof it

 

also can Celine Whistle (not that I like whistling at all but I do hate people who say Mariah is the Best ) ?

 

thanx

 

I also want to know what her vocal range is.

 

I read somewhere that she has a range of 5 octaves. Is that true?

 

On YouTube someone mentioned that she can whistle but said in an interview that she does not like to do it, because it can harm your vocal cords. Not sure if it's true...

[Celine lover]

Celine Dion have a 3.2 octave range

Bb2 (new dawn) to C6 (live in BYLM , LCMM , B&TB , fly)

 

but I read somewhere that celine reached B6

but I never found a proof to that

[Tyler1991]

Whistle Register? I've never heard her do it...I was thinking the other day of what her highest note was, I don't know, but what I came up with was that it would probably be from: Naked, Alone, Fade Away, RDMH (the opening notes when she does this live for the TC tour), Sorry For Love, When I Need You, Fly, or Man's World (live). Does anyone know for sure?

[breathless_euphoria]

thing is we've heard celine on the record and in warmups go right up into the heights of her 'pop' range.

what we have not heard is her exercise her operatic potential; pop music does not utilise the proper top levels of the female range, with only a few minnie riperton, sarah brightman, mariah carey types going right up ( in mariah and minnie's case as whistles, rather than operatic soprano head voice). it's doubtful celine can stretch right into the whistle register as it is an extremely difficult type of singing, which rather than being trained, one must be comfortable using naturally (like how you cant really teach someone how to actually wolfwhistle if they can't already do it).

 

what celine is rumoured to be working on is an album with the quebec symphony orchestra which may feature some operatic works, and if she performs those i think we can expect her to add a few extra notes onto that upper range of hers, because we simply havent heard her sing ANYTHING that uses the full top register of the lyric soprano.

 

whether or not she's got joan sutherland or kiri te kanawa power in that voice remains to be seen; she may instead have the light soprano stylings of sarah brightman, but nonetheless it'll be awesome to hear her soar like callas would have

 

she's only exhibited at best a three and a half octave range so far which is not just extensive within itself, but impressive because her voice has real power from the bottom of that range to the top. just because she hasnt yet shown us more, doesnt mean it isnt there.

 

some would say its tasteful of her to keep the squeaks for the music that demands it, and not to make a career, carey-style out of showing what she can do just because she can.

 

x

Edited February 8, 2009 at 04:20 PM by breathless_euphoria

[Petya]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USevYPrS2d0

OK, could someone tell mi which is the note in the first 10 seconds?And in which register?I think it's a pretty high one.

[seita]

How about All by my self ?? O holy night and Sorry for love ????? celine hits the notes awesome . . gimme explanation please., . .

[rodrigo_alka]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USevYPrS2d0

OK, could someone tell mi which is the note in the first 10 seconds?And in which register?I think it's a pretty high one.

 

 

She's rounding an A5 there...

[Tyler1991]

I don't think ABM is really high, more so just a belt with a lot of force...it was different from her belts in IS, WDMHBN, IYAMT, etc because she puts force into it when she belts it out (does that make sense? lol).

[marie_claire]

there are times that celine can't hit the note comparing wayback... but no matter what her octave is, well she's a good performer and she tries to hit the not with her voice plus the emotions that she pours into her music. I guess that's the good idea at all, and comparing singers are well for me, no offense to everyone, but sorta unfair, every singer has their own style, so maybe let's just leave them on their own business... hey IM NOT A MARIAH FAN... peace out!

[takeachance]

Does anyone know what Celines octave range compares with Julie Andrews octave range? Just a query.... Edited February 9, 2009 at 08:22 PM by takeachance

[CelineDionFan710]

celine has a very good octave, but ABM is not very high. but she does a reat job on it!!!

[vlad]

there is a note celine did it in "celine a tout prix" on M6 which is very strange.nobody talks about it.

it s when she said that her voices cut,then she stops talking for a week.after that she restarts talking but her voice was not in control (higher than usual).

here she hits a note maybe like the so called dolphin voice.maybe whistle i don t know .

could someone find this part of the episode?and clarify this point?

[florisd]

I think she's a soprano instead of a mezzo-soprano, i don't know how to say it in english :laugh:

[tearsinheaven87]

Can I ask, wtf is a whistle register?

 

I doubt very much she has an 8 octave range, that's an entire piano.

I think people are right in saying 3 - 4 octave range.

[Davey84]

Can I ask, wtf is a whistle register?

 

I think Céline has a cash register for sure! Well at least René does!

[Celinefanatic07]

Does anyone know what Celines octave range compares with Julie Andrews octave range? Just a query....

 

 

WOOO Julie!!! Second best female singer in the world!!!!!

 

NOTE: I do know about the throat surgery gone wrong! I may be a blonde, but I'm not THAT stupid! LOL.

 

 

This is a very interesting topic,. I've been wondering myself what her octave range is!

[Black Kitten]

i think we should leave the whistle register to Mariah Carey. Celine doesn't have to possess that, when her pair of lungs are powerful enough to produce a superhuman chest note like no other.

 

and besides, MC's whistling is getting annoying now. she herself should stop it. it's not doing her any favor. and honestly, though i love Mariah, she never gave me that goosebumps that Celine is "still" giving me today. i love them both, but Celine is million miles better than Mariah. and that's a FACT.

Edited February 10, 2009 at 01:37 PM by dhena