Patsy Cline Vocal Range and Voice Type
Patsy Cline's cited vocal range is E3 to D5 (1.8 octaves). Patsy Cline is commonly classified as a contralto. 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 Patsy Cline uses that range
Weight sits in the chest register for most of the range, with slow, heavy portamento carrying you between notes rather than clean intervals. Vibrato arrives late on a sustained tone, often preceded by a small catch that reads as a sob. Toward D5 the sound thins gently instead of belting. Overdone, that catch turns into a wobble; it works as one placed break inside an otherwise steady line.
What is Patsy Cline’s vocal range?
Patsy Cline's vocal range is commonly cited as E3 to D5 — about 1.8 octaves, or 22 semitones, and is usually classified as contralto.
Warm contralto with a controlled sob on held notes and heavy, deliberate slides between them.
- Signature song
- Crazy
Reading the numbers
- The span is 10.5 semitones short of the library median (32.5 semitones) — a compact working range.
- 7 other voices here carry the identical cited range — at the resolution these figures are quoted in, those voices are indistinguishable on the chart.
- Ranked by bottom note, it is the 501st lowest voice in this library; by top note, the 456th highest.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
More about Patsy Cline’s voice
How high can Patsy Cline sing?
Patsy Cline is commonly cited singing as high as D5, the top of a cited range that starts down at E3.
What is Patsy Cline’s highest note?
Patsy Cline’s highest note is commonly cited as D5.
What is Patsy Cline’s lowest note?
Patsy Cline’s lowest note is commonly cited as E3.
How many octaves can Patsy Cline sing?
Patsy Cline’s commonly cited range spans about 1.8 octaves (22 semitones), from E3 up to D5. That span is wider than 5% of the 636 voices in this library.
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Also bottoming out on E3
57 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on D5
42 other voices here reach the same ceiling.