Jacky Cheung
Baritone · Pop · Hong Kong · prominent since 1985
How Jacky Cheung uses that range
Cheung centers everything on mid-range tone shaping: thick, resonant chest with a faint metallic ring, vowels rounded, vibrato settled and even. He works the octave above E3 for most of a song, spending climactic pushes toward C5 sparingly, approached with covered vowels and a firm breath lean. Dynamics do the storytelling — he crescendos through held notes instead of re-attacking them. Students copying him underrate his consonant timing; the crooner smoothness rides on precisely released word endings.
What is Jacky Cheung’s vocal range?
Jacky Cheung's vocal range is commonly cited as E3 to C5 — about 1.7 octaves, or 20 semitones, and is usually classified as baritone.
Rich Cantopop baritone with a metallic core, crooner phrasing and high notes pushed with open-throated ease.
- Signature song
- 吻別 (Goodbye Kiss)
Reading the numbers
- The bottom of this range is unusually high for a baritone: 98% of the 122 baritones here are cited lower than E3.
- Only 2 of the 122 baritones 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 2 singers from Hong Kong charted here.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
More about Jacky Cheung’s voice
How high can Jacky Cheung sing?
Jacky Cheung is commonly cited singing as high as C5, the top of a cited range that starts down at E3.
What is Jacky Cheung’s highest note?
Jacky Cheung’s highest note is commonly cited as C5, heard in 愛你痛到不知痛.
What is Jacky Cheung’s lowest note?
Jacky Cheung’s lowest note is commonly cited as E3.
How many octaves can Jacky Cheung sing?
Jacky Cheung’s commonly cited range spans about 1.7 octaves (20 semitones), from E3 up to C5. That span is wider than 2% of the 636 voices in this library.
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Also bottoming out on E3
57 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on C5
40 other voices here reach the same ceiling.