José José
Tenor · Latin · Pop · Mexico · prominent since 1970
What is José José’s vocal range?
José José's vocal range is commonly cited as A2 to D5 — about 2.4 octaves, or 29 semitones, and is usually classified as tenor. Full voice is cited up to around B4; everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Clean lyric tenor; accurate on stepwise ballad climbs, near-seamless chest-to-mix handoff. That cited span is wider than 25% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- El Triste
- High D5 heard in
- El Triste
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.
- 7 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 6 singers from Mexico charted here.
- Ranked by bottom note, it is the 159th lowest of the 357 voices here; by top note, the 249th 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 D5
30 other voices here reach the same ceiling.