Milton Nascimento
Tenor · Jazz · Folk · Latin · Brazil · prominent since 1967
What is Milton Nascimento’s vocal range?
Milton Nascimento's vocal range is commonly cited as G2 to A#5 (Bb5) — about 3.3 octaves, or 39 semitones, and is usually classified as tenor. Full voice is cited up to around A4; everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Full chest register under a floating falsetto he treats as a second, instrument-like voice. That cited span is wider than 76% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Travessia
Reading the numbers
- 13 semitones — 33% 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.
- 5 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 3 singers from Brazil charted here.
- Ranked by bottom note, it is the 111th lowest of the 357 voices here; by top note, the 116th 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 G2
46 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on A#5
43 other voices here reach the same ceiling.