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Morten Harket Vocal Range and Voice Type

Morten Harket's cited vocal range is A2 to E5 (2.6 octaves). Morten Harket is commonly classified as a tenor. See the notes and compare your range free.

Reported reference span
A2E5
Octaves
2.6
Semitones
31
Voice type
Tenor
A2E5C2C3C4C5C6
Evidence and review

Evidence and review

Individual evidence review is pending. The displayed range is a reported reference span, not an independently verified physiological limit.

These are the approximate figures fans and music journalists commonly cite — the widest notes a singer has recorded, not the comfortable range they sing in every night, and not lab measurements. Treat them as a fun reference, not a target.

How Morten Harket uses that range

Everything about the sound is clean: precise entries with no scoop and no rasp anywhere, vowels kept tall and bright, vibrato even when it appears at all. Large interval leaps happen without an audible gear change, chest lifting into a ringing head voice that holds its brightness up to E5. Take On Me shows that head-voice top plainly. Grabbing at the leaps instead of placing them lands you under pitch.

Warm up for thisA description of the sound, not a technique to copy wholesale — the top of anyone’s cited range is the least imitable part of it.

What is Morten Harket’s vocal range?

Morten Harket's vocal range is commonly cited as A2 to E5 — about 2.6 octaves, or 31 semitones, and is usually classified as tenor.

Bright tenor that climbs into a ringing head voice; clean onsets, no rasp anywhere.

Signature song
Take On Me

Reading the numbers

  • 7 other voices here carry the identical cited range — at the resolution these figures are quoted in, those voices are indistinguishable on the chart.
  • No separate full-voice ceiling is cited, so the figures describe a range worked largely in full voice across its 31 semitones.
  • One of 2 singers from Norway charted here.
  • Ranked by bottom note, it is the 277th lowest voice in this library; by top note, the 403rd highest.

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

More about Morten Harket’s voice

How high can Morten Harket sing?

Morten Harket is commonly cited singing as high as E5, the top of a cited range that starts down at A2.

What is Morten Harket’s highest note?

Morten Harket’s highest note is commonly cited as E5, heard in Take On Me.

What is Morten Harket’s lowest note?

Morten Harket’s lowest note is commonly cited as A2.

How many octaves can Morten Harket sing?

Morten Harket’s commonly cited range spans about 2.6 octaves (31 semitones), from A2 up to E5. That span is wider than 39% of the 636 voices in this library.

You vs Morten Harket

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 Morten Harket’s.