The following is a list of singers in country, popular music, jazz, and musical theatre who have been described as contraltos. Contemporarily, the informal term alto is sometimes used interchangeably with contralto. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. When the terms soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone, and bass are used as descriptors of non-classical voices, they are applied more loosely than they would be to those of classical singers and generally refer only to the singer's perceived vocal range. Join Facebook to connect with Brandy Anderson and others you may know. that made us who we are today, and I share my plan of how easy it would be to kidnap a child. In non-classical music, singers are primarily defined by their genre and their gender, not their vocal range. Sex and the City, Samantha Speaks with Brandy and Julie. In classical music, a 'pure' contralto is considered the rarest type of female voice. For classical and operatic singers, their voice type determines the roles they will sing and is a primary method of categorization. The term contralto was developed in relation to classical and operatic voices, where the classification is based not merely on the singer's vocal range but also on the tessitura and timbre of the voice. In the lower and upper extremes, some contralto voices can sing from two Bs below middle C (B 2) to two B ♭s above middle C (B ♭ 5). The contralto singing voice has a vocal range that lies between the F below ' middle C' (F 3) to two Fs above middle C (F 5) and is the lowest type of female voice. Look-Look Book)Kirk Jarvinen, The Story of Annie D.Susan Taylor Chehak. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. How to Talk to People About CancerCancerBACUP, History of North Africa. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

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