Simone Simons
Mezzo-soprano · Metal · Netherlands · prominent since 2003
How Simone Simons uses that range
Classical scaffolding supports a fundamentally contemporary mezzo: raised palate, low breath anchoring, and a warm chest register that she blends upward through a seamless middle mix into rounded head voice. Vibrato is trained, medium-speed, and applied selectively; straight tone for verses, spin for sustained peaks. She avoids hard belting, preferring to let head resonance carry volume over dense orchestration. The student error is darkening artificially to sound operatic; her color comes from vowel shape and breath depth, not a depressed larynx. Work the messa di voce before the high phrases.
What is Simone Simons’s vocal range?
Simone Simons's vocal range is commonly cited as G3 to C#6 (Db6) — about 2.5 octaves, or 30 semitones, and is usually classified as mezzo-soprano.
Warm, smoky mezzo with classical polish, floating head-voice highs over symphonic walls of sound.
- Signature song
- Cry for the Moon
Reading the numbers
- The bottom of this range is unusually high for a mezzo-soprano: 96% of the 133 mezzo-sopranos here are cited lower than G3.
- No separate full-voice ceiling is cited, so the figures describe a range worked largely in full voice across its 30 semitones.
- The weight of the range is above middle C: 25 semitones up there against 5 below.
- The closest range in the library belongs to Anna Netrebko (G3–D6), within 1 semitone at both ends.
- One of 3 singers from Netherlands charted here.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
More about Simone Simons’s voice
How high can Simone Simons sing?
Simone Simons is commonly cited singing as high as C#6 (Db6), the top of a cited range that starts down at G3.
What is Simone Simons’s highest note?
Simone Simons’s highest note is commonly cited as C#6 (Db6).
What is Simone Simons’s lowest note?
Simone Simons’s lowest note is commonly cited as G3.
How many octaves can Simone Simons sing?
Simone Simons’s commonly cited range spans about 2.5 octaves (30 semitones), from G3 up to C#6. That span is wider than 34% of the 636 voices in this library.
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 Simone Simons’s.
Also bottoming out on G3
18 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on C#6
15 other voices here reach the same ceiling.