Rob Halford
Tenor · Metal · UK · prominent since 1974
What is Rob Halford’s vocal range?
Rob Halford's vocal range is commonly cited as F2 to C6 — about 3.6 octaves, or 43 semitones, and is usually classified as tenor. Full voice is cited up to around D5; everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Moves from gritted chest snarl into piercing falsetto shrieks with almost no audible seam. That cited span is wider than 89% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Breaking the Law
- High C6 heard in
- Painkiller
Reading the numbers
- 10 semitones — 23% 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 12 semitones.
- The span runs 11 semitones past the median voice in this library (32 semitones).
- 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 44th lowest of the 357 voices here; by top note, the 51st highest.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
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 Rob Halford’s.
Also bottoming out on F2
66 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on C6
55 other voices here reach the same ceiling.