Dennis Brown
Tenor · Reggae · Soul · Jamaica · prominent since 1969
What is Dennis Brown’s vocal range?
Dennis Brown's vocal range is commonly cited as G2 to D5 — about 2.6 octaves, or 31 semitones, and is usually classified as tenor. Full voice is cited up to around A#4 (Bb4); everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Round warm tenor with a smooth chest-to-head handoff mid-phrase and quick falsetto flips. That cited span is wider than 39% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Money in My Pocket
Reading the numbers
- Full voice is cited to within 4 semitones of the top note, so this reads as a chest-dominant voice rather than one that flips into a lighter register.
- 4 other voices here carry the identical cited range — at the resolution these figures are quoted in, those voices are indistinguishable on the chart.
- One of only 9 Reggae voices in this library.
- One of 8 singers from Jamaica charted here.
- Ranked by bottom note, it is the 111th lowest of the 357 voices here; by top note, the 249th highest.
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 G2
46 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on D5
30 other voices here reach the same ceiling.