Barbra Streisand
Mezzo-soprano · Pop · Musical Theatre · USA · prominent since 1963
What is Barbra Streisand’s vocal range?
Barbra Streisand's vocal range is commonly cited as A#2 (Bb2) to C6 — about 3.2 octaves, or 38 semitones, and is usually classified as mezzo-soprano. Full voice is cited up to around D5; everything above that comes from head voice.
Long legato lines with exact vowel placement; climaxes come from breath control, not volume. That cited span is wider than 73% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- The Way We Were
Reading the numbers
- 10 semitones — 26% of the whole span — sit above the cited full-voice ceiling, so much of this range is head voice, falsetto or whistle rather than chest.
- That floor is a full 11 semitones beneath where a mezzo-soprano's range conventionally starts (A3).
- 1 other voice here carries the identical cited range — at the resolution these figures are quoted in, those voices are indistinguishable on the chart.
- The weight of the range is above middle C: 24 semitones up there against 14 below.
- 5 other voices here bottom out on the same A#2.
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 A#2
5 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on C6
55 other voices here reach the same ceiling.