Cesária Évora Vocal Range and Voice Type
Cesária Évora's cited vocal range is D3 to A#4 (1.7 octaves). Cesária Évora is commonly classified as a contralto. See the notes and compare your range free.
Evidence and review
Individual evidence review is pending. The displayed range is a reported reference span, not an independently verified physiological limit.
These are the approximate figures fans and music journalists commonly cite — the widest notes a singer has recorded, not the comfortable range they sing in every night, and not lab measurements. Treat them as a fun reference, not a target.
How Cesária Évora uses that range
Sung inches from the microphone at low volume, this contralto trades projection for detail — you hear the breath, the consonants, the smoke in the lower middle. Onsets are soft, the tempo unhurried, and phrases float a little behind the accompaniment. Vibrato is minimal and vowels stay dark and loose. Push it any louder and the intimacy that makes those low notes work is gone.
What is Cesária Évora’s vocal range?
Cesária Évora's vocal range is commonly cited as D3 to A#4 (Bb4) — about 1.7 octaves, or 20 semitones, and is usually classified as contralto.
Smoky low contralto sung softly close to the mic; conversational, unhurried, vibrato minimal.
- Signature song
- Sodade
Reading the numbers
- The ceiling is modest for a contralto — no other contralto here stops lower.
- Only 3 of the 38 contraltos here work a narrower cited span.
- The span is 12.5 semitones short of the library median (32.5 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.
- Ranked by bottom note, it is the 456th lowest voice in this library; by top note, the 562nd highest.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
More about Cesária Évora’s voice
How high can Cesária Évora sing?
Cesária Évora is commonly cited singing as high as A#4 (Bb4), the top of a cited range that starts down at D3.
What is Cesária Évora’s highest note?
Cesária Évora’s highest note is commonly cited as A#4 (Bb4).
What is Cesária Évora’s lowest note?
Cesária Évora’s lowest note is commonly cited as D3.
How many octaves can Cesária Évora sing?
Cesária Évora’s commonly cited range spans about 1.7 octaves (20 semitones), from D3 up to A#4. That span is wider than 2% of the 636 voices in this library.
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Also bottoming out on D3
35 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on A#4
12 other voices here reach the same ceiling.