Philip Bailey
Countertenor · Funk · Soul · R&B · USA · prominent since 1972
What is Philip Bailey’s vocal range?
Philip Bailey's vocal range is commonly cited as G2 to D6 — about 3.6 octaves, or 43 semitones, and is usually classified as countertenor. Full voice is cited up to around B4; everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Baritone speaking range under a penetrating falsetto that carries entire lead vocals. That cited span is wider than 89% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Easy Lover
- High D6 heard in
- Reasons
Reading the numbers
- 15 semitones — 35% 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.
- That floor is a full 12 semitones beneath where a countertenor's range conventionally starts (G3).
- The span runs 11 semitones past the median voice in this library (32 semitones).
- 2 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 111th lowest of the 357 voices here; by top note, the 32nd 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 D6
16 other voices here reach the same ceiling.