Angélique Kidjo
Mezzo-soprano · Afrobeats · Funk · Benin · prominent since 1981
What is Angélique Kidjo’s vocal range?
Angélique Kidjo's vocal range is commonly cited as E3 to E5 — about 2.0 octaves, or 24 semitones, and is usually classified as mezzo-soprano. Full voice is cited up to around C5; everything above that comes from head voice.
Brassy forward mezzo with heavy chest projection; percussive diction, long loud held notes. That cited span is wider than 8% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Agolo
Reading the numbers
- Full voice is cited to within 4 semitones of the top note, so this reads as a chest-dominant voice rather than one that flips into a lighter register.
- The ceiling is modest for a mezzo-soprano — only 7 of the 83 mezzo-sopranos here stop lower.
- The span is 8 semitones short of the library median (32 semitones) — a compact working range.
- 2 other voices here carry the identical cited range — at the resolution these figures are quoted in, those voices are indistinguishable on the chart.
- One of only 7 Afrobeats voices in this library.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
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Also bottoming out on E3
39 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on E5
29 other voices here reach the same ceiling.