David Bowie
Baritone · Rock · Pop · New Wave · UK · prominent since 1969
What is David Bowie’s vocal range?
David Bowie's vocal range is commonly cited as E2 to A5 — about 3.4 octaves, or 41 semitones, and is usually classified as baritone. Full voice is cited up to around B4; everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Baritone with a wide color palette: theatrical vibrato low, thin brightness up top, heavy diction. That cited span is wider than 83% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Space Oddity
Reading the numbers
- E2 is a deep floor for a baritone — lower than all but 4 of the 51 baritones here.
- 10 semitones — 24% 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.
- The ceiling clears the conventional baritone top of A4 by 12 semitones.
- The span runs 9 semitones past the median voice in this library (32 semitones).
- 4 other voices here carry the identical cited range — at the resolution these figures are quoted in, those voices are indistinguishable on the chart.
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 E2
28 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on A5
28 other voices here reach the same ceiling.