Drake
Baritone · Hip-Hop · R&B · Canada · prominent since 2009
How Drake uses that range
Conversational baritone singing that hugs a narrow third-octave band, with a soft, covered tone and melodies built from speech contours. Onsets are gentle, vibrato nearly absent, and hooks repeat small intervals until they hypnotize. Head voice appears sparingly and quietly. Students copying him under-rate the pitch discipline; the half-sung style still requires exact intonation on tight intervals, a relaxed jaw, and rhythmic placement a hair behind the beat, because slack pitch turns the style into mumbling.
What is Drake’s vocal range?
Drake's vocal range is commonly cited as D2 to C5 — about 2.8 octaves, or 34 semitones, and is usually classified as baritone.
Soft, covered baritone melodies that sit on speech contours and tight repeated intervals.
- Signature song
- Hold On, We're Going Home
Reading the numbers
- No separate full-voice ceiling is cited, so the figures describe a range worked largely in full voice across its 34 semitones.
- The range sits mostly under middle C — 22 semitones below it against 12 above.
- The closest range in the library belongs to Blake Shelton (D2–C#5), within 1 semitone at both ends.
- Ranked by bottom note, it is the 33rd lowest voice in this library; by top note, the 510th highest.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
More about Drake’s voice
How high can Drake sing?
Drake is commonly cited singing as high as C5, the top of a cited range that starts down at D2.
What is Drake’s highest note?
Drake’s highest note is commonly cited as C5.
What is Drake’s lowest note?
Drake’s lowest note is commonly cited as D2.
How many octaves can Drake sing?
Drake’s commonly cited range spans about 2.8 octaves (34 semitones), from D2 up to C5. That span is wider than 53% of the 636 voices in this library.
Take the free 2-minute range test — your mic finds your lowest and highest notes, then this page shows exactly how your voice lines up with Drake’s.
Also bottoming out on D2
24 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on C5
40 other voices here reach the same ceiling.