Rod Stewart
Tenor · Rock · Pop · Blues · UK · prominent since 1969
What is Rod Stewart’s vocal range?
Rod Stewart's vocal range is commonly cited as E2 to C5 — about 2.7 octaves, or 32 semitones, and is usually classified as tenor. Full voice is cited up to around A4; everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Sandpaper rasp from a breathy onset; sits mid-range and pushes volume rather than height. That cited span is wider than 48% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Maggie May
Reading the numbers
- E2 is a deep floor for a tenor — lower than all but 6 of the 127 tenors here.
- Full voice is cited to within 3 semitones of the top note, so this reads as a chest-dominant voice rather than one that flips into a lighter register.
- The ceiling is modest for a tenor — only 6 of the 127 tenors here stop lower.
- 1 other voice here carries 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 15th lowest of the 357 voices here; by top note, the 285th 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 Rod Stewart’s.
Also bottoming out on E2
28 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on C5
32 other voices here reach the same ceiling.