Otis Redding Vocal Range and Voice Type
Otis Redding's cited vocal range is F2 to C5 (2.6 octaves). Otis Redding is commonly classified as a baritone. See the notes and compare your range free.
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 Otis Redding uses that range
A thick baritone driven hard, with rasp riding on top of the tone rather than replacing it. Onsets are often glottal, words get stammered and repeated to build pressure, and lines push slightly ahead of the beat so the band sounds like it is chasing the singer. The top of the range is shouted, not floated. The grit is not throat scrape; it comes from breath compression and bright forward vowels, and it should never hurt.
What is Otis Redding’s vocal range?
Otis Redding's vocal range is commonly cited as F2 to C5 — about 2.6 octaves, or 31 semitones, and is usually classified as baritone.
Raspy, pushed baritone that stammers and repeats phrases to build pressure.
- Signature song
- (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
Reading the numbers
- 8 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.
- Ranked by bottom note, it is the 115th lowest voice in this library; by top note, the 510th highest.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
More about Otis Redding’s voice
How high can Otis Redding sing?
Otis Redding is commonly cited singing as high as C5, the top of a cited range that starts down at F2.
What is Otis Redding’s highest note?
Otis Redding’s highest note is commonly cited as C5.
What is Otis Redding’s lowest note?
Otis Redding’s lowest note is commonly cited as F2.
How many octaves can Otis Redding sing?
Otis Redding’s commonly cited range spans about 2.6 octaves (31 semitones), from F2 up to C5. That span is wider than 39% of the 636 voices in this library.
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Also bottoming out on F2
76 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on C5
40 other voices here reach the same ceiling.