Jeff Buckley
Tenor · Alternative · Rock · Singer-Songwriter · USA · prominent since 1994
What is Jeff Buckley’s vocal range?
Jeff Buckley's vocal range is commonly cited as E2 to D6 — about 3.8 octaves, or 46 semitones, and is usually classified as tenor. Full voice is cited up to around F5; everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Very wide tenor with seamless falsetto shifts, long melisma, and near-whispered dynamic drops. That cited span is wider than 95% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Hallelujah
- High D6 heard in
- Grace
Reading the numbers
- E2 is a deep floor for a tenor — lower than all but 6 of the 127 tenors here.
- The top note beats 94% of the 127 tenors in this library.
- The ceiling clears the conventional tenor top of C5 by 14 semitones.
- The span runs 14 semitones past the median voice in this library (32 semitones).
- 1 other voice here carries the identical cited range — at the resolution these figures are quoted in, those voices are indistinguishable on the chart.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
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 Jeff Buckley’s.
Also bottoming out on E2
28 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on D6
16 other voices here reach the same ceiling.