Stevie Wonder
Tenor · Soul · R&B · Funk · USA · prominent since 1963
What is Stevie Wonder’s vocal range?
Stevie Wonder's vocal range is commonly cited as C2 to E6 — about 4.3 octaves, or 52 semitones, and is usually classified as tenor. Full voice is cited up to around E5; everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Nasal-forward tenor with gospel melisma; slides from chest into a bright, controlled falsetto. That cited span is wider than 98% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Superstition
Reading the numbers
- It is the 2nd widest cited span of the 127 tenors here.
- C2 is a deep floor for a tenor — lower than all but 1 of the 127 tenors here.
- The top note beats 98% of the 127 tenors in this library.
- Only 4 singers here are cited below C2.
- 12 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.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
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Also topping out on E6
12 other voices here reach the same ceiling.