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Vocal range

John Legend

Tenor · R&B · Soul · Pop · USA · prominent since 2004

Cited range
E2A#5
Octaves
3.5
Semitones
42
Full voice to
A#4
Voice type
Tenor
E2A#5C2C3C4C5C6
red dash = top of full voice

What is John Legend’s vocal range?

John Legend's vocal range is commonly cited as E2 to A#5 (Bb5) — about 3.5 octaves, or 42 semitones, and is usually classified as tenor. Full voice is cited up to around A#4 (Bb4); everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.

Church-trained tenor; clean chest tone, light rasp on push, and an easy step up to falsetto. That cited span is wider than 88% of the 357 voices in this library.

Signature song
All of Me

Reading the numbers

  • E2 is a deep floor for a tenor — lower than all but 6 of the 127 tenors here.
  • 12 semitones — 29% 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.
  • The ceiling clears the conventional tenor top of C5 by 10 semitones.
  • The span runs 10 semitones past the median voice in this library (32 semitones).
  • The closest range in the library belongs to Al Green (F2–A#5), within 1 semitone at both ends.

Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.

You vs John Legend

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 John Legend’s.