Adele
Mezzo-soprano · Pop · Soul · UK · prominent since 2008
What is Adele’s vocal range?
Adele's vocal range is commonly cited as C3 to A#5 (Bb5) — about 2.8 octaves, or 34 semitones, and is usually classified as mezzo-soprano. Full voice is cited up to around E5; everything above that comes from head voice.
Chesty mezzo with wide vibrato and audible glottal onsets; works a narrow, heavily supported belt band. That cited span is wider than 58% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Rolling in the Deep
Reading the numbers
- That floor is a full 9 semitones beneath where a mezzo-soprano's range conventionally starts (A3).
- Roughly 18% of the span sits above the cited full-voice ceiling of E5.
- The weight of the range is above middle C: 22 semitones up there against 12 below.
- The closest range in the library belongs to Fiona Apple (C3–A5), within 1 semitone at both ends.
- Ranked by bottom note, it is the 225th lowest of the 357 voices here; by top note, the 116th highest.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
Take the free 2-minute range test — your mic finds your lowest and highest notes, then this page shows exactly how your voice lines up with Adele’s.
Also bottoming out on C3
13 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on A#5
43 other voices here reach the same ceiling.