Caetano Veloso
Tenor · Latin · Folk · Singer-Songwriter · Brazil · prominent since 1967
What is Caetano Veloso’s vocal range?
Caetano Veloso's vocal range is commonly cited as A2 to C5 — about 2.3 octaves, or 27 semitones, and is usually classified as tenor. Full voice is cited up to around G4; everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Light breathy tenor pitched close to speech; soft onsets, almost no vibrato. That cited span is wider than 19% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Alegria, Alegria
Reading the numbers
- The ceiling is modest for a tenor — only 6 of the 127 tenors here stop lower.
- Only 11 of the 127 tenors here work a narrower cited span.
- 5 other voices here carry the identical cited range — at the resolution these figures are quoted in, those voices are indistinguishable on the chart.
- Roughly 19% of the span sits above the cited full-voice ceiling of G4.
- One of 3 singers from Brazil charted here.
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 A2
46 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on C5
32 other voices here reach the same ceiling.