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chest voice

British

noun

a voice of the lowest speaking or singing register Compare head voice

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It sounds like autotune is used to bend her voice to match the song’s impatient lyrics, but Polachek told the New Yorker that autotune effect is achieved by flipping between her head and chest voice.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021

In cultivating a deeper chest voice to complement that airy soprano, Joni suddenly didn’t need a man to harmonize with.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2020

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

One good habit to help children sing well is to ask them sing in their head voice rather than their chest voice.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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