Serj Tankian
Baritone · Metal · Alternative · Rock · USA · prominent since 1998
What is Serj Tankian’s vocal range?
Serj Tankian's vocal range is commonly cited as F2 to C6 — about 3.6 octaves, or 43 semitones, and is usually classified as baritone. Full voice is cited up to around B4; everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Operatic-leaning baritone with fast register jumps, trills, and pinched nasal placement. That cited span is wider than 89% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Chop Suey!
Reading the numbers
- The top note beats 90% of the 51 baritones in this library.
- 13 semitones — 30% 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 baritone top of A4 by 15 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.
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 F2
66 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on C6
55 other voices here reach the same ceiling.