Vocal range
Dusty Springfield
Mezzo-soprano · Pop · Soul · UK · prominent since 1963
Cited range
C3 — D#5
Octaves
2.3
Semitones
27
Voice type
Mezzo-soprano
What is Dusty Springfield’s vocal range?
Dusty Springfield's vocal range is commonly cited as C3 to D#5 (Eb5) — about 2.3 octaves, or 27 semitones, and is usually classified as mezzo-soprano.
Breathy, smoke-toned mezzo; heavy vibrato and chest-driven phrasing borrowed from soul records. That cited span is wider than 19% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Son of a Preacher Man
Reading the numbers
- The ceiling is modest for a mezzo-soprano — only 6 of the 83 mezzo-sopranos here stop lower.
- That floor is a full 9 semitones beneath where a mezzo-soprano's range conventionally starts (A3).
- 1 other voice here carries the identical cited range — at the resolution these figures are quoted in, those voices are indistinguishable on the chart.
- No separate full-voice ceiling is cited, so the figures describe a range worked largely in full voice across its 27 semitones.
- 4 other voices here are cited to the same D#5 ceiling.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
You vs Dusty Springfield
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Same notes, other voices
Also bottoming out on C3
13 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on D#5
4 other voices here reach the same ceiling.