Jennifer Hudson
Mezzo-soprano · Soul · R&B · Gospel · USA · prominent since 2004
What is Jennifer Hudson’s vocal range?
Jennifer Hudson's vocal range is commonly cited as A2 to C6 — about 3.3 octaves, or 39 semitones, and is usually classified as mezzo-soprano. Full voice is cited up to around A5; everything above that comes from head voice.
Heavy chest weight carried into the fifth octave; belts stay full instead of thinning to falsetto. That cited span is wider than 76% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
Reading the numbers
- Full voice is cited to within 3 semitones of the top note, so this reads as a chest-dominant voice rather than one that flips into a lighter register.
- That floor is a full 12 semitones beneath where a mezzo-soprano's range conventionally starts (A3).
- 7 other voices here carry the identical cited range — at the resolution these figures are quoted in, those voices are indistinguishable on the chart.
- Ranked by bottom note, it is the 159th lowest of the 357 voices here; by top note, the 51st highest.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
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Also bottoming out on A2
46 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on C6
55 other voices here reach the same ceiling.