Christina Aguilera | Vocal Analysis
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- My attempt to finally answer the question, "what's Christina's voice type?"
I've decided to step a bit of my comfort zone and do a voiceover for you, I hope you enjoyed the video, just know that I did my best.
Have a great day/evening!
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My attempt to finally answer the question, "what's Christina's voice type?"
I've decided to step a bit of my comfort zone and do a voiceover for you, I hope you enjoyed the video, just know that I did my best.
Have a great day/evening!
Cristina You're Amazing Love you You're Best Singer Ever
I like the voiceover 😊👍
I love the voice over and I love all your videos.
I finished your video and I strongly disagree with the ending part. First of all, she's a grown ass woman, her vocal cords stopped growing yeaaaaaars ago. You can't become a lower (or higher) fach as an adult, you might maybe fill up a light lyric to a full etc.
The examples of her low notes actually demonstrate she is a soprano - her voice diminishes substantially below F#3 like every other soprano and the G3 is almost midrange for mezzos, while it sounds like a normal low note for her. Even the smoky timbre is a tell, sopranos tend do have it, because it's outside of their natural range. Her 4th octave belts were really nice and full, but so were for example Mariah's (I believe F#4 is for example in Without You) and she was 23 at the time. Christina is probably around 40 and a mother so of course her voice filled up, but it didn't magically become a mezzo.
@@ocandro Actually your voice type can still change as an adult. Pregnancy hormones are proven to naturally make women's voices lower. Also your technique can alter your voice type. Christina's voice doesn't deminish below f#3. She actually sung B2 live during the x tour. If you don't believe me here's the clip. th-cam.com/video/4jH2furv_6c/w-d-xo.html
I love the way u composed this video instead of putting hundreds of words on screen
Thank you!😊
@@ChristinaMariaAguilera haha nope. I did that too.. English is like my fourth language so I better not to ruin the video by speaking lol
I personally don’t give a crap what her type is, I’m just happy that she gives me life with her voice in general!❤️
Correct!
She gives love thru her voice
She's fake soul. It irritates me... She never learned that runs and growls are decorative, not essential to song placement.
Tries to sing like a black woman and fails miserably.
Give me Pink
@@dakotafowler2387wtf you talking about xdddd
@@dakotafowler2387 You can say anything about Christina but not fake soul. If there's anyone who can sing today with real soul, it's her.
Xtina is a light lyric soprano, her voice is small and very light and doesn't project like a mezzo would in strategic places. She just doesn't have technique required to sing in soprano range (E5 and above in mixed voice), though she certainly has soprano ease in her trademark high falsetto.
Mezzo is not an untrained or failed soprano, like some people like to suggest (for example saying that damaged sopranos like Whitney or Mariah became mezzos), it's a rich beautiful voice that has different strengths and surpasses both sopranos and contraltos in certain areas.
Exactly! 👏👏👏
The concept of damaged Sopranos becoming Mezzo-Sopranos, is essentially an insult to Mezzo-Sopranos.
Sure a damaged Soprano might lose her ease in the upper register & become inconsistent but she'll still lack the richness & weight of a Mezzo-Soprano because they are still Sopranos at their core.
Exactamente o exactly , that's true....
Falsetto doesn't count and means literally nothing as far as voice classification. It's considered a FALSE voice.
@@brianmelnick1117 Actually head voice and falsetto aren't that much different considering voice configuration, it's just a little more connection (less airy sound) and little less connection = airy sound but the actual sound is really similar. And that doesn't take away anything from simple fact Xtina has more easy in her falsetto/head voice range than Ariana, for example, who constantly struggles with anything higher than C6/C#6 area. That speaks volumes
@@lightning0506 The sound may be similar, but they are completely different. There's a clip of Christina doing vocal scales in an actual connected head voice from back in the day, and she stopped after G#5.
I've een studying music theory ect. for the past year and have found a new found respect for vocalists.
I use to think she was a light lyric soprano then I though she was just a lyric mezzo. But now with my new found knowledge and working with actually opera singers I'm about 100% sure she's an untrained leggero soprano. In one of my books I found this... That sums up her major technical problem "Leggero sopranos often use too much chest voice connection in the middle and chest registers, causing major vocal problems in the upper register. The mistake of over-employment of the thicker vocal cord mass is often made due to the rounder color in the middle to low-middle register"
but she adds that rasp/distortion on purpose
I still believe she's just a damaged Full-Lyric Soprano. Her voice is no bigger or darker than the average lyric soprano
I thought leggero and light-lyric were the same thing... What's the difference?
@@MrPeppeRE leggero is having the best of both worlds, which are lyric coloratura (tessitura) and lyric soprano (timbre).
She is contralto with no doubts!!! She has D3, she has supported F3, she has C5 in head register, her voice after G5 became weaker ...
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She started out as a lyric soprano who uses this squilo vocal technique. That darkening her her color of tone, now she's matured into a Lyric Mezzo after 20 years in the industry.
I think she’s a mezzo too
She is high contralto.
some contralto voices can sing from two Bs below middle C (B2) to two B♭s above middle C (B♭5). Her voice does that but she also has a whistle register
Which may I remind you is not just a soprano thing
What squillo technique? She has never produced squillo
Her freakin LOW NOTES ARE MARVELOUS! Every one you showed from this era. I have mostly always loved her low notes, from "Stripped" to now. I always felt like Stripped and towards her debut, she had this ghostly haunting lower register. That D3/C3 was INCREDIBLE!
How cute your voice is?
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Kinda feel like she would be trained as lyric soprano in real opera. Real mezzos are far rarer than people think and actual contraltos before the age of 40 extremely rare. I think she's a soprano but singing pop and belting like that made her appear mezzo-ish. It honestly is such a vague question cause pop singing is so different from bel canto singing.
She is contralto.
@Baf Baas I think the same as you, I would even say that she is a light lyric soprano
@@Idk-ub2yw soprano not singing G#2. It's too low for soprano...
@@Kurdyukov87pianist Yes, you're right, but there are cases like Yma Sumac and Mariah Carey who, being Sopranos, could sing a G2
@@Idk-ub2yw Yma and Mariah are contraltos.
Christina is a Mezzo Soprano. Always has been. She just has a higher placed tessitura than most Mezzos. When you showed the comparison between her and Jojos 4th octave notes, it was evident that Christina was in fact belting just like Jojo and she was even younger than Jojo in those videos. Her power has always been in her mid range.
Agnello Dei .. what ? 💀
Justin Braylock it sounded so crazy, I couldn't even respond lmao
AnonymousXtinaSinger agreed on that one 🤣
She's soprano
She's soprano.
I used to think she's a Mezzo but I realized, in comparison to JoJo, Christina has a lighter voice. So yeah, she is a soprano who can sing low notes which became solid through years of singing. What a range! Sana all. Haha.
summerreveries dramatic sopranos has a dark tone and power i think is so christina
Jojo and Christina are contraltos...
@@Kurdyukov87pianist no
@@vitorcesar1712 If girl has constant D3 she's contralto.
*Definitely a Light Lyric Soprano at her core;* even though she pulls her chest voice up, her ease in the 5th octave (even to this day) displays that she is a Soprano. Despite the strain, she usually doesn't have to work up to that note like a Mezzo-Soprano with her technique would.
*More importantly, her head voice is key.* If she were a Mezzo-Soprano, it would have more weight & be richer, yet it's light & very bright. There's no way she would be placed as a Mezzo-Soprano in Opera (where the Vocal Fach Classifications originated from).
Thank you 🙏
I don't think she has much ease in the 5th octave at all. Phrasing is very uncomfortable for her in that range
She doesn't have ease in the 5th register. While her voice is bright, it's still holds too much weight to be a soprano. And she doesn't use Head Voice. If she did, then we would notice a much different quality than what were used to because it would sound much darker. But she uses falsetto which is completely disconnected and airy so of course it'll sound bright and weightless.
AnonymousXtinaSinger agreed , it’s safe to say she was always a lyric mezzo , just with a brighter tone
@@shivermetimbers6128 Thank you for sharing that link, because it actually shows that she is a Lyric Soprano, Beyonce's head voice is much weightier & richer, even though she's in the Mezzo-Soprano category with the lightest voices, so what kind of Mezzo-Soprano could Christina possibly be...
Even in this clip when she tries to take on more of a classical placement with her head voice, it still sounds light & bright th-cam.com/video/7Rc49BB51fY/w-d-xo.htmlm28s
She's definitely a Light Lyric Soprano at her core.
She’s naturally built a lyric soprano as evidenced by her chest voice (her speaking voice), but chose (consciously or unconsciously) to sing like a mezzo. There.
She can do it all.
Cristina You're The Best Singer Ever .Omg You're Voice Is Confusing Amazing. Best one Ever
Christina is a light voiced soprano, she has lots of strength in her lower register because she uses her vocal cords in a thick position as well as has full cord closure . This means since she is in her chest voice most of the time, it will be fairly strong.
Y’all all sound crazy arguing with each other. “No! She’s a medium partly cloudy Virgo decaf soprano operatic adidas lyricist”.
Along with Celine and Jennifer Hudson. Christina has one of the best voices in the industry. Her vocal range is good in all ways. She can sing anything.
tarny11 seriously only three of them??? Give me a break
@@blueskys2010 Yes of course they have the best voices.
A lyric soprano. Her head voice is telling.
She's a Mezzo with an extended falsetto range.. Her belting range peaks at F5 on her prime with rare accidental live G5s.. And cannot mix above F5.. Sopranos can mix up to A5 or even B5.. Her falsetto goes really high into whistle territory though.. She's a rare vocalist thats for sure..
It doesn’t matter about the range when it comes to vocal types it matters about the type of voice you sing with. If it has a lot of depth and heavy or if it’s soft and light.
But you have to look at hear voice for a vocal classification which the Fach system is designed for. Her head voice has none of the characteristics of a mezzo. If she were an opera singer, there's not a chance in hell she would be considered a mezzo with that light, bright and nimble head voice that's comfortable in the D6-E6 area.
Another 40 people who think mezzo is a failed soprano 🙄
Exactly! People are saying she is a soprano because of her falsetto but Beyoncé can also hit a G6 in her head voice but she is a Mezzo.
@@wakailee Beyonce hit F6 in head voice, not G6
You always have that ability to capture Christina's best vocal moments lol. The moment you said her lower notes were not so supported in her early years I was like... What? They sound enough supported to me. Nowadays it's great to listen to her supporting from F#3 again. Plus her lift me up performance is such a great showcase of her once well rounded G#4s.
I may have not articulated what I had wanted to say properly.
The lows I chose from her debut were supported, but they didn't possess signature mezzo-soprano qualities, but she sang them with good technique regardless.
She can do it all, what a legend
La importancia de esta Diosa no está en su rango vocal que es impresionante sino en el tono de su voz.. es unico, inconfundible y su pasión al cantar.. he leido muchas veces que a esta edad ya no podría cantar por su "mala tecnica" y ella lo sigue dando todo y hasta equivocandose como cualquier otra cantante.. ella se entrega al publico cantando en vivo y hay que decir que todo su repertorio es realmente dificil!
Before watching: She is a SOPRANO who chooses to stick to the mezzo-soprano range when it comes to singing. If you've heard her in impromptu scenarios, she can hit Cs, Ds and Es like an eagle can fly. I guess the last name helps. 😁
No. She's a mezzo. Mezzos can hit Cs and Ds easily. Those notes are right in their play pen. Even a mezzo belting an E or an F isn't a rare feat for the voice type. They're not contraltos.
@@brianmelnick1117It's not even about about the singer being able to hit the notes. It's about the quality and ease of the notes. Plus, even if we take away E5-E6, how many mezzos do you know have a whistle register?
@@SONGbyrdRYzing Many. Men can have a whistle register. It has nothing to do with how high or low your voice is.
@@brianmelnick1117Ok, name some.
@@SONGbyrdRYzing Guys? Just type in "male whistle register" and you'll find hundreds of videos. As far as mezzos go ... Betty Wright, Chante Moore, Georgia Brown, Rachelle Ferrell, to name a few. All of them actually sing in it, too. When is the last time Christina used the whistle register? Close to 2 decades ago. She never displayed virtuosity in that register.
I don't know anything about vocal technic but all I heard is that she can sing in any genre and style. And they are sound beautiful.
That C3 😍😍
I was prepared to read my way through this video.
To the people who say that "She's Contralto."
You ain't fooling anyone.
Great video! In my humble opinion she is a soprano, or at least when she started out. If anything, this show how incredible Christina is, being able to manipulate her voice and confuse many over the years. To me it seems she combines features from her inspirations like Mariah's agility and range, Etta's rasps and growl with Whitney's tone. She did it well in my opinion although she can definitely do it with better technique but it's obvious she knows what she's doing. She's definitely one of the best at what she does.
Christina Aguilera is a contralto.
Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey are contraltos too...
@@Kurdyukov87pianist I'm sorry but at this point, it's evident that Whitney, Mariah and Christina are not Contraltos. None of their voices' traits refer to them as contraltos.
@@carloswagner6895 They can to sound androgynous. They just should use resonance point in another way...
@@carloswagner6895 If girl have D3 she's a contralto.
You're channel is so underrated.. You're editing is terrific. Great taste in music. No Bias.. It sucks seeing you not get as much views as you deserve... That's all.. I'm just mad.. Sorry
Thank you for your kind words, but I'm happy with the amount of views I get, I can't complain:)
Shes an undeveloped soprano
Omg her C3??? I never heard that before
She’s done a few C3s. That’s so low for a woman.
youre a star Mariah can go much lower. She went to F2/F#2
@@languidcreature2345 Mariah is kinda an exceptional case because of her excellent Support in low notes. Also she is a legend with a nodule. That makes her access whistle register so maybe it also helps her access very low notes as well
despairingleonardo nope dahling. Mariah supported a D3. While, it’s not about nodule if her voice is low, it’s her voice that’s naturally low
despairingleonardo isn't true, i know her doctor said that thanks to her nodules she can hit whistle notes, but any human without nodules can hit whistle notes no matter if is bass, baritone, tenor, contralto, mezzo-soprano or soprano
Christina Aguilera is a Full-Lyric Soprano. She has the warmth, resonance and fullness in her chest to lower mixed register with a bright, sometimes breathy upper mixed to head register. Her mixed is shiny and metallic as well. A Full-Lyric Soprano sounds like a grown and strong woman and a Light-Lyric sounds like a fluttery and tender young girl. But Christina does has an extension up to whistle range and has the strength to move and lift her voice to do rifts and drifts so she's possibly and truly a Legierro Soprano, which is a Full-Lyric Soprano with an extension up to E6 and has the flexibility NOT agility to move it's voice up and down the range
Yes! I always thought I heard a most notable shift in her voice on that "Walk Away" David Letterman performance, which happens to not only be one of my favorite live vocal performances of that era, but overall of hers.
omg her voice is so confusing
squishy VERSATILE
Thats what makes it fun!! Lol
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I agree with you.
People keep saying that her "Natural" voice, a light, girly and bright speaking voice proved she is a soprano.
But I always think she is talking in HEAD voice.
Amo tu voz xD buen video como siempre :)
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I was fortunate to see her in Chicago, she was getting over an illness. She sang in her head voice almost the whole time and it was flawless. If she sang in her head voice all the time,
I think people would consider her a soprano. But they would also get bored. She definitely knows how to use her instrument.
the main difference between true sopranos and mezzos are the presence of a falsetto. true operatic sopranos can sing their full range just in their modal voice (the range of the voice commonly used for speaking, this includes head voice and chest voice). Falsetto is a vocal register that sits just above your modal register, a key difference is that your vocal folds don't connect when using falsetto, meaning you can sing in the same key of your normal voice just using falsetto. Falsetto was given that name by opera houses, who at first regarded it as a false-register (a fake voice), since the vocal folds don't connect. Essentially, mezzo-soprano (which translates as "half- soprano") can sing the lower half of a true soprano's range using their modal register, and the upper half using falsetto, compared to a true soprano who can sing their full range just in modal voice. therefore, all female pop singers that can sing the soprano range are most likely a mezzo, while a true soprano will have a much stronger operatic sound
It was a great video!
Thanks for the video, btw your voice is very.. delicate (idk it's just nice to hear it 😂). And Christina slays so damn much here, love it ♡
Haha thank you, audio quality isn’t the best I tried to eliminate white noise and it changed my voice a bit, also when I focus on pronunciation my voice sounds higher🙂
I love her voice, vocals and songs so much but sometimes it’s too over the top for me, but l love her in general. ❤️ Great video.❤️
In my opinion she is a soprano because of her strong head voice, her beltings reach F5, but she is lazy and does not strive to reach them, and the bass has developed with time and maturation of the voice.
Xtina uses falsetto
BAC yeah but her belts are with mainly chest voice .
Her strong head voice?Were can i see that?
With belt i think i can reach C6 shes a mezzo
Light Lyric Soprano
You have to look at her head voice to decide her Fach. Not her chest mixed voice. There's no way she's a mezzo with that head voice. If she were an opera singer there's no way she would be considered a mezzo. She's a light lyric soprano
WHAT head voice??? It's falsetto, which wouldn't even be taken seriously in opera in the first place.
@@brianmelnick1117 her head voice which she's demonstrated. The E6 and G6 she did in HELLO is full on head voice, the C6 on the voice using hee head voice, her vocal warm ups to connected G5 and G#5, The time she sang the sound of music in her head voice I am perfectly aware of when she uses falsetto. But her head voice, the instances I'm referring to, she sounds nothing like a mezzo soprano.
@@mrvocal21 The E6 and G6 in Hello were whistle register. The C6 she did on The Voice was falsetto. Regardless, she's a mezzo.
Christina Aguilera is a high contralto. She has D3 (it's contralto range), she has supported F3, she has C5 in head register, after G5 her voice became weaker...
@@brianmelnick1117 she’s not mezzo. CJ is right, you can’t base her vocal classification on her belting range because the vocal fach system never took that into account.
She may not perform well in upper range, because is disconnected and airy (falsetto), yet her ease and brightness up there is an indicative that she’s a soprano (a VERY untrained one for that matter).
At this point she's singing as low as B#2, which some tenors can't do. Progressing to a full on belt by F4. Struggling to sustain an A4, which many tenors are perfectly capable of doing. The answer is clear: lyric...BARITONE.
G2
😂😂
Almost every tenor can sing below C3, down to B2 or much lower. In opera, we need to hit notes like C3 singing as loud as orchestra, so we can project much lower sounds but it won't sound loud. I'm a tenor and can go down to G2, it's definitely not my comfort zone, but almost every man who's got testicles can sing below C3 :)
Why her voice sounds so different when she's speaking? When she is using her singing voice she sounds like another person! I think it's because of her larynx ! Very low larynx when singing!
theres millions of clips of her singing with neutral larynx and mild tongue tension and she still possesses a weightier timbre than her speaking voice. Christina just has a naturally full and warm voice.
She has certain mannerisms in her speech (a bit valley girl like I'd say) and the exact opposite in her singing, so of course it's confusing. Even her unaffected voice has a lot of air pushing, tension, chestiness etc.
No. When she speaks with that valley girl accent you can't classify it as her real voice either. It's also a modification. I guess it's a speaking habit. The speaking moment displayed in this video on her tour reflects (imo) her voice at her natural and calm state and it is much lower with bass quality and would explain her rich sound in the lower register when singing too.
It's actually normal that speaking voice is really different from singing voice. With the pressure given by the diaphram, it affects to the placement of the larynx wihich changes the tone.
Her tong
even though her voice wasn’t fully developed , xtina sounded like a mezzo soprano in her mickey mouse clubhouse days ..
Yeah!
She is high contralto .
@@Kurdyukov87pianist lmao make that shit make sense lmao that’s not a classification. Monica is an alto and Christina’s voice is much higher than hers
@@decholes95 If Christina covers the vowels, then she will also have a contralto tone ...
She was lowering her larynx like crazy lol. She wasn’t singing naturally (same goes for Britney) and it showed. If you heard her talk her voice was sweet, light and bright, not that Kermit the Frog’s voice she was singing with lol
Xtina was always soprano, but after so much vocal exhaustion some claim that she had become mezzo.
But in fact Xtina continues to be soprano, only of a denser subclassification. She was soprano-spinto and has now become soprano-dramatic which is the most serious class of sopranos that come to confuse with mezzos which is her case.
Note that their passages and zone of brightness is still acute, between an A4 and C5 that are too typical and easy for the sopranos.
She still has too much warmth in her voice to be a Dramatic voice...
My vocal type was SOPRANO (with whistle register) and now my voice changed into mature as Alto/Mezzo.
I don't think she's a mezzo though, her vocal style and bad technique is what made people believe she's a mezzo but she was and still is a soprano with same exact issues she had during her debut years, nothing really changed that much from then, maybe her tessitura has shifted a bit and her voice has aged a bit as well but overall I don't think she sound way different now. Her chestiness and lack of technique and development as well is what leaded people to believe she's a mezzo while in reality she isn't. Her voice even with all aforementioned combined still doesn't sound like typical mezzo like Beyonce or Gaga
I'm sorry but these kind of arguments are always a bit weak. There are lots of untrained sopranos with bad technique and yet in their natural state or rather beginning phase they are able to access their higher registers more easily and generally belt higher as well as be more flexible up there. Xtina's vocal limit has always been F5 and even that note was rather rare and a struggle. That's not normal for sopranos. Instead she possessed a rich lower register with a very mezzo type bass quality (check out the "impossible" duet with contestant on the voice 2016 for instance) that not many sopranos, let alone untrained sopranos, are ever able to achieve. There are simply more indications that she's NOT a soprano than the contrary. And that considers the view of an untrained state. Her lower register in her singing and lower/fuller speaking voice in all her recent interviews are a dead give away for me that she's a mezzo. At least nowadays.
@@jinx-1 Weak? Like Xtina lower register, lol) And if seriously, let's just analyze:
1)Do you really think that women (soprano actually) has their passagio strictly at F#4 and F#5? Do you even know that this kind of break refer to classical singing in head voice rather than belt? So that F5 has nothing to do here. Do you know most tenors (including myself) had a struggle to belt past C4? And then a G4? That's the case, it's perfectly normal for any soprano to struggle with C5 since it's above their first break, not untrained soprano will belt a C5 with ease, it's just impossible
2)Rich lower register means literally nothing. There're countless sopranos whose lower registers put even some tenors in shame, Xtina comfort zone in lows most goes not lower than E3/F3 area. And you making a logic mistake since you're assuming low notes are harder than higher ones which is just completely the opposite.
So, turned out your arguments are even weaker and basically just a bunch of misconceptions about singing and voice types.
Lkzpe First of all calm down. Second of all I never assumed or claimed that low notes are more difficult than high notes nor did I exemplify their passaggio! I simply stated that higher registers are MUCH easier to access for sopranos than mezzos. An untrained soprano-SINGER with the range of Christina's should absolutely NOT struggle with a C5. You'd be right if we talked about beginners who haven't sung before ever...people with no singing experience that want to start....but that's not the case here. We're talking about EXPERIENCED singers that have been singing for decades with no training!!!! There is a MAJOR difference you need to distinguish first.
Also if you had read more responsibly, you would have seen that I never claimed that all sopranos have a weak lower register. I acknowledged there are some with GREAT mezzo type lower registers but there are certainly NOT a "countless" of them as you ridiculously and falsely claim. Especially not when they're UNTRAINED which is the point of comparison here. Calling Christina's lower register "weak" is also a major testament for your ignorance about HER vocals. Listen to the 'impossible duet' and come back. That is by no means "weak". Not for a mezzo and (in your point of view) especially not for a soprano. It is VERY rare for an untrained soprano to be able to display that much quality and sound in the lower register as showcased in that particular clip.
Her voice just suits the type of a mezzo much more than the one of a soprano and that's that.
@@jinx-1 I'd still stick to my opinion, I know it may be controversial but she posses more of soprano qualities (not every soprano should sound like Ariana Grande, there're lower types of soprano), her head voice never was a feature of mezzo (look at Beyonce or Gaga, completely different head voices, much more thick), what about chest - I already talked about it, too much vocal manipulation, Xtina really never sings with relaxed manner, she chose style over technique and that's what made people believe she was and is mezzo which is untrue + her technique is questionable at best which doesn't allow her to reach freedom in upper register.
And no, experience means really nothing, there're multiple singers out there who sings for like 30 years and still didn't learn proper technique so what? Should be judge them by their untrained voice? Cause that's exactly what you're doing with Xtina's voice, she never really (at least on stage and overall live) demonstrated the ability to sing with proper technique or did it very rarely so your point here is invalid again so how do you know what she will sound like if she was actually properly trained? She'd sound like typical lyric soprano which she always was
But whatever you want to hear, it's obviously you just can't accept another point of view, it's ok though, I had multiple talks about Christina voice with different knowledgable people and none of them said me she was a mezzo and that speaks volumes.
She sing like a beast evil but talked like an angel
HERMOSA Y TALENTOSA!!!!
she is a soprano! one reason she is a solo artist is cause she can extend just below or above soprano range.. example: her low range to mid belt - whistle tones
I think xtina chose to strength voice at mid belt than her upper belt because singing a high note with power is difficult.
Just because she's high contralto. And high notes for this type of voice too much difficult!!!
@@Kurdyukov87pianist no she’s not lmao
She is a light Mezzo Soprano. She's always struggled in the Soprano tessitura even in her young years, and her tone even without tongue/low larynx manipulation is still darker, warmer, fuller and weightier than what I'd expect a true lyric soprano to be. Some call her a Soprano I guess because of her falsetto quality which is irrelevant and that her voice is lighter and "sweeter" than typical Mezzo, but even a Soprano with bad technique like Demi and Ariana still has a lot of ease in the high notes and a high tessitura. Xtina always had a mid tessitura and strains and struggles above B4. There's nothing wrong with being Mezzo, Beyonce is one and shes an amazing vocalist.
Yes!
She's soprano.
Demi and Ariana may not have the greatest technique in their belting ranges, but they still have a concept of singing in mixed voice, meaning they are aware of the risks and consequences of performing such a high tessitura in a chest dominant sound.
Christina has never showed even a slight acknowledgment of understanding the importance of mixing. She clearly sees belting as shouting at the top of her lungs (or what some people call: “pulling chest voice up”). If that is your conception of belting, of course you will be straining like hell and most likely would never be able to sustain a high tessitura in your upper belting range.
Look at Jessica Simpson or CeCe Frey (a contestant in the XFactor in 2012), both sopranos yet they have a terrible belting technique. Just listen to Jessica’s performances of I Wanna Love You Forever, not only does she drops the key 1 semitone, but also sounds shrill, thin and labored on notes like E5 and F#5…. Shouldn’t a soprano be able to have ease at the upper register?.
Belting will always be controversial and imo, their performance in it should never be considered as a main trait or skill for a female singer’s vocal fach.
The vocal fach system did not even take into consideration such a thick cord vocal coordination because it was saw as “vulgar”, and in fact classically trained female singers would only use their “raw” or “pure” chest voice up until Eb4, on upwards they start using what they call the “messa di voce” (roughly translated to “mixed voice”, but it is far from the concept that we currently associate in contemporary styles of singing) and head voice, and those were the regions in which the female vocal categorization was based of.
Do pop singers even remotely touch such concepts of vocal technique? No, of course not. That’s the reason of why classifying pop voices using the vocal fach system is highly controversial and speculative, and thus, rendering using modern vocal concepts such as belting useless.
Belting is a learned skill, that even classically trained singers have trouble learning. For instance, youtuber Dileesa Hunter is a classically trained Lyric Soprano, yet because she uses a VERY chest dominant mix (like Christina’s) she is unable to sustain a high tessitura in her belting range (but if you hear her singing classical music she’s by no doubts a soprano).
My point is, you can’t classify someone’s vocal fach based on their belts, specially if they are using such a chest dominant coordination that, in most cases, results in very early vocal fatigue and strain (thus meaning that is very hard to maintain a high tessitura).
I think she always was a mezzo with an amazing range
Christina Aguilera will be Always a light Lyric soprano. She only reach that raspy Voice with Low Larynx. Christinas speaking Voice is very girly. Also when she sings the Song say Something or in her Burlesque era her Voice Always Sounds very girlish.shes a light Lyric soprano who feels confortable in the mezzo range .
She's an alto. There's a reason her songs are easiest to sing for me. I too often get mistaken for a mezzo soprano because my high notes sound genuine too. But if you listen closely they're actually dynamic lower notes and that comfort level definitely sits in the alto range.
She's soprano...y como Latina les digo no se nace soprano y después te vuelves mezzosoprano 😂😂😂😂 ella ha trabajado muy bien sus medios y graves...
Ella eligió ese estilo para su sonido, estoy muy de acuerdo.
@@aferiver exactamente Andrés ; Christina ha estudiado desde pequeña su registro es extraordinario pero para no malograrse las cuerdas como Mariah Carey dejó de hacer registro silbido o whistle y comenzó a desarrollar peso en su voz. .no hay ninguna que le llegue a los pies que disculpen los seguidores de Ariana y Demi no son originales las escuchó y después me olvidé de cómo era su voz....
@@dianesworld4344 ustedes se nota que hablan sin saber y es que la manera de hacer notas graves en el caso de Xtina son naturales, por más que esta entrenada una soprano no sonara tan bien como una mezzo. Ahora se preguntarán porque suena tan aguda en otras situaciones es porque Christina es pequeña y entre más pequeño el instrumento más agudo 😂👌
@@manfreddreisse2648 perdón....pero , mi opinión no es de fan ciega por una cantante ya que llevo clases de música y canto bastante tiempo e interactuo con varios músicos.Lo que define el tipo de voz es las cuerdas vocales si se adelgazan y estiran por naturaleza si eres mujer eres soprano y el hombre es tenor ..Las mezzosoprano tienen un registro que llega sólo a la 5 ....una soprano de la que hay 3 o 4 clases son Soprano lírica , soprano ligera, lírico-ligera , dramática como Jennifer Hudson y aunque sean Sopranos sus timbres de voz son diferentes
@@dianesworld4344 acabas de decir que es una opinión, osea, que te puedes equivocar en lo que dices. Estas desviando el tema, Christina es mezzo ya que hacia notas graves desde pequeña de manera natural mientras que las notas altas le eran más complicadas.
Musical genres? From rock to pop this woman can do a lot of styles? Maybe a highlight video of he ability in that way? I haven't seen anyone do that yet
So basically she’s so vocally versatile that people get confused what vocal fache she belongs to. LOL what a Queen!
She's a high contralto.
Aguilera is a high contralto.
Lowest doable notes and type of voice:
Soprano G#3-A3
Mezzo F3-F#3
Contralto C#3-D3 (and below)
Tenor G#2-A2
Baritone F2-F#2
Bass C#2-D2. (And below)
I think she is a light lyric soprano but when she sings she lower her larynx to get like mezzo soprano kind of timbre. She changes her vocal placement when she sings which makes her speaking voice and her singing voice sound different.🎶🎶👌
lowering the larynx will make voice sound deeper and darker but also unstable, soprano would have problems with low notes like Ariana or Demi, I dont think Christina smokes which would cause of lowering the voice like Adele or Pink (both mezzos they stopped smoking and gained range)
@@xaredx7431 Sopranos like Mariah Carey or Tori Kelly don’t have trouble with lower notes. Having trouble singing low is not always a great indicator of being a soprano.
@@vincentr2465 Mariah has nodules they help her to go low, Tori has very good technique
she s a spinto soprano who used to sing with pressed vocal chords.
Everyone saying her voice is damaged, untrained, and weak, yet she has one of the most beautiful voices! Apparently she did something right.
In my opinion, she could be a dramatic soprano, cause she has veery low notes and a very powerful and rich tone, but she has also very high notes (even if soprano usually can belt over B5, and she arrives at a G#5 but she has a very high falsetto range that arrives right to the whistle notes! )
Listen to Monica Naranjo or Jessye Norman, both dramatic sopranos. You’ll see she sounds nothing like them.
I feel like if she can do it and still sound good--it is all a part of her natural voice. If she can't do it then it isn't. Same for every singer, whatever you can do IS your natural voice. I don't think there is such a thing as a fake voice. Christina is a brilliant singer who can do a lot. I don't think she is faking anything--she is just able to do a lot because her talent is on another level! All of what she can do makes her voice her own.
La característica principal de la voz de Christina Aguilera es que es de tipoo soprano de coloratura, agregándose la capacidad de uso del registro de silbido (registro vocal más agudo).
She got something ,different,most of other's singer,i think she is not the best,she is legenda,cus nobady can be high in note,style is so versatile,soul,r&b,pop,all styles,i think is unic voice can't be so easy cover,copy voice,so she is amazing comparative others,
Keep the voice C&A
I would just like to know what you think a mezzo voice is, because mezzo soprano itself, not all have dark and heavy voices , many mezzo singers have similar timbres to soprano. What makes a mezzo is the tessitura, passagio. Ans mezzo has very good highs too, many even sing soprano roles in the opera, and common. For me Christina is a mezzo, precisely because of her tessitura and her vocal passages.
I say she is a mezzo but started as a soprano but her voice lowered drastically around 2009/2010, thus she is a mezzo now, her low notes and mid belts have becomd more mezzo like over the years and her 5th octave belts are a hit or miss now due to lower voice type + bad technique, there are almost no upper belts.
Belting plays almost no role in someone’s vocal fach. There’s other things to be considered.
Head Voice/falsetto is so disconected to decide which type of voice is a singer. For example Beyoncé is a mezzo and she can hit an F6 in head voice, while Demi Lovato, who is a soprano struggles near the B5.
Beyonce Shrieked a F6 once. She's never actually sung or come close to sustaining one or even an E6.
@@mrvocal21 she has done it a few times, she even hit a G6 in Daddy Lessons (Remix)
@@wakailee those are studio manipulations. Live demonstrations is what I'm talking about
@@mrvocal21 Exactly - that F6 was a falsetto. It just doesn't qualify.
Christina Aguilera actually had more output in her debute era than Jojo has now, at least on F4 to G#4...
She's definately a mezzo and has been for many years now. The tendency with age is getting her voice darker and darker. Maybe a lyric soprano when younger (but then again, who wasn't a lyric soprano when you're young). However, as she got older, she matured and her voice developed falling towards/into the mezzo-soprano. There are some who think she could be a dramatic soprano, which in any other case would be ridiculous, but honestly, she uses so much distortion in her voice that it actually is understandable one could asusme that. I love her, but the technique that she applies is not so good and I get it's an artistic choice, but with that comes the consequence and deterioration of the voice. Anyways, dramatic soprano: this is not the case, because she demonstrates a brighter quality in the mezzo area. She is NOT a lyric soprano either, her voice is not light enough for it and taking it from her spoken voice is just a mistake. Some might not know this, but her wide range is not something taken so much in consideration when determining a vocal fach. She's a mezzo with coloratura, you might say... And I see no objections to that, could be. Yma Sumac and many other mezzo-sopranos are know for having a very wide vocal range singing notes above C6 (and even C7 for some), it is not that rare if you look for it and they would fall into the same category. The difference is not in what notes can you reach, but the texture/quality of the notes reached. Agility might give you a hint and the range as well, these USUALLY come along with the label, but you must remember it is not a factor that rules. BUT, she's not an opera singer, so at he end, it doesn't matter anyways! :)
I wouldn't say her voice deteriorated. She sounds wonderful at nearly 40, the best she has in a few years.
@@StephanFitzgeraldTay Omg, I agree, her voice is indeee so beautiful, to me is in it's most beautiful color it has ever been. Don't get me wrong, I love her and I don't say her voice got deteriorated in a bad judging criticism, but her voice has indeed deteriorated in the sense that it has changed, rather say "shifted" perharps, into something that it wasn't at the beginning and this "shift" caused her to have a more stiffy voice, a change beyond natural of her tone, the raspiness increased, things like that. It's hard to use adjectives to explain, I know it sounds abstract a bit without the actual sound, but there are many videos on youtube about her case. It's true, I love her, but it's true and it's understandable why. I think her voice is incredible and she's a hell of an artist, really the voice of my generation, I wish many more years for us to enjoy this incredible lady. Hopefully, we will! :)
Yes!!!
She's high contralto.
@@Kurdyukov87pianist her voice is too feminine and warm for a contralto. Contraltos have a slight masculine, dark, heavy sound.
My conclusion after reading all of the comments and seeing the video is that her voice is unclassifiable lol She does so much vocal manipulation and is so untrained that using the vocal fach system on her is just a sacrilege. Everything about her voice is truly speculative and unreliable because we’ll never know is she is capable of having o lacking a skill because she simply likes to sing however she pleases (and that’s fine).
In my very speculative approach, I would say that she’s a lyric soprano (I won’t even dare to say light lyric or full). Her voice is youthfull, bright and warm and has a relative ease and comfort performing in the upper range, despite of her utilizing a disconnected and airy falsetto, her voice is able to stay there and sound somewhat decent, in places where untrained mezzos would just give out (A5 upwards).
And no, her belting says nothing about her true vocal fach. Her approach to it is far to pushed, aggressive and forced to even be considered, plus belting isn’t a trait to be considered in order to classify female voices, because the vocal fach system was created based on a female’s singer mixed-head voice, not on a heavy and thick vocal chord coordination such as belting.
We could talk all day and speculate on her voice, but the truth of the matter is that she’s very inconsistent. There’s no 2 vocal performances of her that sound the same. The minute you think she has accomplished or improved in one aspect, she latter on deceives you and changes her approach.
In conclusion, she makes her own rules and sings however she pleases, and we should just appreciated for what it is. The beauty in her artistry lies within the fact that she likes imperfections and making what some people may consider unappealing something beautiful, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Her voice got lower after pregnancy, that is super normal. She started her career as a high mezzo now she's a lower mezzo soprano it seems because she can go a long lower. Bb2 is her lowest note right?
Today, I would say Christina is a Mezzo. For the past few years, the lower and the middle of her voice have fleshed out so much and are incredibly robust and projectile. I encourage people to watch her live performances since 2018/2019. I'm not sure what happened, if it was training or not, but her voice now lives comfortably in her lower and mid register. She has great access to her upper register but the size and power in mid/lower is unmistakably mezzo. Her performances before 2018/2019 are really not comparable to after that point because though she still has a the same tone and certain Christina signature tricks, it's a very different voice now. The idea that Christina doesn't have control of her lower register...really has not been true in recent years at all. *JUST REALIZED THIS VIDEO WAS MADE IN 2019 LMAO
btw, JOJO OMG SHE IS SLAYING
Con los años se la nota más cómoda con las canciones y tonos graves.. hay que adaptarse
Christina Aguilera is a high contralto with coloratura possibilities. She has D3 it's contralto range, she has supported F3, She has C5 in head register (mezzo head register begins from Eb5, soprano head registre begins from F#5), her voice became weaker from G5.... With no doubts she is contralto... She just undeveloped her contralto tone. Maybe she will not want to sound androgynous...
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she's a mezzo-soprano with an extensive headvoice range.
I feel the same for Mikey Cyrus I feel shes becomes mezzo through time
idk what you're talking about she's clearly a tenor /s
why can't she both both? Her voice is very unique
Ok, let me add some of my personal thoughts (and please, forgive my english)
Christina Aguilera has a very beautiful voice, and I love her, now, let me say something 'bout your post... "Belting" doesn't mean "mix register", you can belt on chest voice, mixed voice, and even on head voice or falsetto, 'cause belting is about power, and there's a very thin line between belting and yelling, and whatever happened to xtina's voice is that, abusing of belting (and sometimes screaming the notes out), that's what harmed her voice, and that's why she can't sing the same way she used to, and her voice has too much unnatural distortion when she belts on chest voice. That's all... You can simply stop being a soprano and turn into a mezzo or an alto just because of damage, 'cause vocal folks are muscles, and they need care and healthy singing.
Please, don't hate me for saying this, but it's the truth
I think is mezzo
I've been listening to her sing since I was 13 years old now I'm almost 20. Based on what I've heard she's a coloratura mezzo soprano her maximum vocal range is Bflat 2 to c7#. Christina's highest belt ever was G#5 from Christmas Time and her lowest note that she's sung live was b2 during the xperience tour. In interviews I've heard Christina Aguilera speak f5s with a headish mix but for some reason she can rarely sing them like that. I've also heard her speak b2s in interviews as well. Don't forget she has extreme vocal agility as well. In ain't no other man she hit 21 note transitions in 6 seconds. Her voice is so unique and beautiful it's hard to describe and categorize it
She isn't a Coloratura Mezzo-Soprano. Her voice is literally different from Beyonce & JoJo's. She doesn't have the vocal weight & richness of a Mezzo-Soprano. She manipulates her voice yet her head voice still remains very bright & light. She's still a Light Lyric Soprano at her core.
@@GarageStudio7 If a female singer that can sing 21 notes in less than 6 seconds isn't a coloratura than who is? Christina's is not a light lyric soprano her voice is usually very chesty and she has a very aggressive approach to singing she growls and intentionally changes her tone to sound raspy. Her upper belts have too much tension for her to be considered a light lyric soprano.
@@bryantwilliams7149 Being a Coloratura isn't simply based on agility. Timbre & Tessitura play a role, plus it's a classification based on a learned skill/training.
1. She can't be a Coloratura Mezzo-Soprano because she is not a Mezzo-Soprano. Her voice is still quite light & bright. Her head voice displays this. She doesn't have the weight, richness & darker sound of a Coloratura Mezzo-Soprano in comparison to a Lyric Coloratura Soprano eg. Beyonce & Jojo in comparison to Mariah Carey & Debelah Morgan.
She's a Light lyric Soprano who definitely had the potential to be a Lyric Coloratura Soprano however with the constant vocal manipulation, pulling her chest voice up & barely ever utilizing head voice, she never made it there.
She beats C#7 in christmas
I still think she's a Soprano because if the weight of her voice her lower ranges I think she just experiencing with it really
Ella es soprano spinto tiene un color de voz muy particular la hace mezzosoprano, ella es soprano y mezzosoprano cuando quiere , su voz es metálica incluso mejor q la de beyonce, ella tiene su voz Christina es impresionante lo dijo celine Dion y Whitney Houston cuando le rindió homenaje canción Run to You, mis Christina no se equivocó Whitney, estás tratando de minorisar su voz , lo mezzosoprano o sopranos son grandiosos la diversidad entre seres humanos nos hace únicos como los animales e irrepetibles.
does anyone know the name of the song that she sings in minute 7:31?
Walk Away from her album Stripped
she desperately lowers her larynx and don't use proper mixed voice. her chest voice is great for a soprano that's why she uses it in dangerously bigger range and pushing it much higher than it stays healthy. but she is a soprano, there are a lot of classically trained lyric sopranos who can lower their larynx and making mezzo-ish, even contraltoish sounds, listen to recent Anna Netrebko, who is a lyric soprano natrually, now she sings the heaviest dramatic soprano roles with that questionable technique and she is the same: when she sings her highest notes she can't fool anyone that it's a bright lyric voice... Christina is naturally a lyric (maybe a potential lyric coloratura) soprano who damaged her voice with this bad technique (she still can sound good though).
Per me, lei è un soprano lirico leggero, ma nel tempo ha cominciato a voler rendere la sua emissione più profonda, inoltre da come parla negli ultimi tempi, credo che le si sia un po' rovinata la voce, e questo le impedisce di essere leggera come prima. Inoltre credo che stilisticamente le vada bene così, le piace esplorare modi diversi di cantare. Se volesse, penso che potrebbe riprendere, almeno in parte, gli acuti che faceva anni fa.
And finally what he said? Is mezzo or soprano
Around 1998-2002 a soprano, 2010-nowadays most likely a mezzo-soprano in my opinion
@@aintnootherfan ok thanks for answering
For me Christina Aguilera is a soprano.
Its a mezzo
She is a high contralto.
what's the difference between an alto and a contralto?
It's the same. Alto is short term for contralto
@@natividadsamboysamboynativ1507 no oh gosh alto is not a vocal fach.
Alto is the lowest singing part in a choir for women
Alto is a choral part- not a vocal type. Most "altos" are actually mezzos. Contralto is the proper term for the lowest female voice types, but they're rare.
What is she singing during 12:50?
Luis8172 she’s just doing adlibs for like 1 Minute. It was a prerecorded vocal that plays before she sang unless it’s with you.