chest voice
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“With a lot of singers you can tell when they go from head to chest voice; it’s two different voices,” he said in an interview for the same book.
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2022
Sing a low note from the depths of your diaphragm and siren up, higher and higher, until your chest voice breaks and you have to use your falsetto voice to keep going.
From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2020
Where artists like Eilish and Khalid do “this super-cool kind of mumbly, vibey thing,” as one of his producers, Malay, put it, Capaldi uses his powerful chest voice to reach the cheap seats.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2019
“Printemps qui commence,” the first of these, was downright ponderous in its delivery, as if bogging down in all that rich chest voice.
From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2018
Using a clear, clean, straight head voice rather than chest voice will help to avoid this, and will strengthen a child’s vocal musculature for a lifetime of excellent singing.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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