Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (12/31/86)
Really-From: KROVETZ%cs.umass.edu@RELAY.CS.NET The discussion about Kate's voice made me wonder about her vocal range. Does anyone know what it is? I used to listen to Renaissance a lot and Annie Haslam (the lead singer) also has quite a range (8 octaves). Anyone know of other singers with such a range? -bob
Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (01/05/87)
Really-From: seismo!udenva!showard (Steve "Blore" Howard) > >The discussion about Kate's voice made me wonder about >her vocal range. Does anyone know what it is? I used >to listen to Renaissance a lot and Annie Haslam (the >lead singer) also has quite a range (8 octaves). Anyone >know of other singers with such a range? > >-bob I don't know about Kate, but David Bowie has an 8 octave range and, believe it or not, Paul McCartney is close (six and a half or seven). Laurie Anderson has quite a range, too, albeit electronically enhanced. Tom Waits has about a three-note range. -- "Something will come of this. I only hope it isn't human gore." Steve "Blore" Howard, zany Marxist tycoon {hplabs, seismo}!hao!udenva!showard or {boulder, cires, ucbvax!nbires, cisden}!udenva!showard
Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (01/11/87)
Really-From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU Dave Rickel may have a vocal range of two octaves. Kate Bush definitely has a much wider range than that. How on earth did you come up with a range of only two octaves for Kate? Hell, even I can span three octaves and a note or two beyond, and I is DEFINITELY no singer. As far as I knows, Kate's highest note is heard on "Don't Put Your Foot on the Heart Brake", from Lionheart. The passage in question is a background vocal in which she sings "She's losing, she's losing, she's losing, she's losing..." As posted earlier, her lowest note may be heard on the lowest vocal harmony track of the twelve-inch version of "Running Up That Hill", during the extended "C'mon, c'mon baby" passage. The difference between these notes is definitely more than two octaves, but the ease and clarity with which Kate sings the high notes on "Heart Brake" indicate that she is capable of singing a good deal higher, albeit perhaps not so beautifully or with sufficient control. -- Andrew Marvick