Grace Jones Vocal Range and Voice Type
Grace Jones's cited vocal range is D3 to A#4 (1.7 octaves). Grace Jones is commonly classified as a contralto. See the notes and compare your range free.
Evidence and review
Individual evidence review is pending. The displayed range is a reported reference span, not an independently verified physiological limit.
These are the approximate figures fans and music journalists commonly cite — the widest notes a singer has recorded, not the comfortable range they sing in every night, and not lab measurements. Treat them as a fun reference, not a target.
How Grace Jones uses that range
This contralto sits near speaking pitch and stays there, flat and dry and deliberately unwarmed. Chest resonance is present but never blooms, vibrato is withheld almost entirely, and consonants are struck hard so lines come out clipped and mechanical. Long notes hold straight through with no swell. Anyone imitating it tends to add expression — a vibrato, a crescendo, a lift toward Bb4 — and the coolness that carries the sound evaporates.
What is Grace Jones’s vocal range?
Grace Jones's vocal range is commonly cited as D3 to A#4 (Bb4) — about 1.7 octaves, or 20 semitones, and is usually classified as contralto.
Flat-toned contralto pitched near speech; hard consonants, dry chest resonance, vibrato withheld.
- Signature song
- Pull Up to the Bumper
Reading the numbers
- The ceiling is modest for a contralto — no other contralto here stops lower.
- Only 3 of the 38 contraltos here work a narrower cited span.
- The span is 12.5 semitones short of the library median (32.5 semitones) — a compact working range.
- 2 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 5 Disco voices in this library.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
More about Grace Jones’s voice
How high can Grace Jones sing?
Grace Jones is commonly cited singing as high as A#4 (Bb4), the top of a cited range that starts down at D3.
What is Grace Jones’s highest note?
Grace Jones’s highest note is commonly cited as A#4 (Bb4).
What is Grace Jones’s lowest note?
Grace Jones’s lowest note is commonly cited as D3.
How many octaves can Grace Jones sing?
Grace Jones’s commonly cited range spans about 1.7 octaves (20 semitones), from D3 up to A#4. That span is wider than 2% of the 636 voices in this library.
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Also bottoming out on D3
35 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on A#4
12 other voices here reach the same ceiling.