Faouzia
Soprano · Pop · Morocco/Canada · prominent since 2019
How Faouzia uses that range
Ornament ties this voice to a lineage: the melisma bends through quarter-tone-flavored turns drawn from Arabic singing, over a Western pop belt that stays connected to F5. The belt is narrow-vowelled and laser-placed rather than wide and brassy, which is how it climbs so high without spreading, and the whistle sits on top as a separate, practiced register. Work the ornaments slowly on one vowel before chasing any of the altitude; the turns are the learnable part, the ceiling mostly is not.
What is Faouzia’s vocal range?
Faouzia's vocal range is commonly cited as C#3 (Db3) to G6 — about 3.5 octaves, or 42 semitones, and is usually classified as soprano. Full voice is cited up to around F5; everything above that comes from head voice or whistle register.
A technician's playground: huge belts with Arabic-inflected ornament, stratospheric whistle, and total dynamic control.
- Signature song
- Tears of Gold
Reading the numbers
- The top note beats 90% of the 60 sopranos in this library, and sits in whistle register.
- Only 10 singers here reach above G6.
- 14 semitones — 33% 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.
- That floor is a full 11 semitones beneath where a soprano's range conventionally starts (C4).
- The span runs 11 semitones past the median voice in this library (31 semitones).
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
More about Faouzia’s voice
What is Faouzia’s highest note?
Faouzia’s highest note is commonly cited as G6. That note sits in whistle register.
What is Faouzia’s lowest note?
Faouzia’s lowest note is commonly cited as C#3 (Db3).
How many octaves can Faouzia sing?
Faouzia’s commonly cited range spans about 3.5 octaves (42 semitones), from C#3 up to G6. That span is wider than 89% of the 420 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 Faouzia’s.
Also bottoming out on C#3
8 other voices here are cited to the same floor.