Celia Cruz
Contralto · Latin · Jazz · Cuba · prominent since 1950
What is Celia Cruz’s vocal range?
Celia Cruz's vocal range is commonly cited as E3 to G5 — about 2.3 octaves, or 27 semitones, and is usually classified as contralto. Full voice is cited up to around E5; everything above that comes from head voice.
Brassy forward chest tone built to cut through horn sections; percussive improvised soneos. That cited span is wider than 19% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- La Vida Es Un Carnaval
Reading the numbers
- Full voice is cited to within 3 semitones of the top note, so this reads as a chest-dominant voice rather than one that flips into a lighter register.
- 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: 19 semitones up there against 8 below.
- One of 2 singers from Cuba charted here.
- 5 other voices here are cited to the same G5 ceiling.
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 G5
5 other voices here reach the same ceiling.