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chest voice

British

noun

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

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chest voice

She delivers every clunker of a line with her full chest voice and a twinkle in her eye.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

For Gluck’s “Ah! non son io che parlo,” an aria barely related to the evening’s themes, she tapped into an impressive chest voice and negotiated the aria’s leaps with full-throated relish.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2022

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

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

However, keep in mind that a child’s vocal apparatus is still developing, and imitating adult singing with scoops, chest voice, or belting is affected singing and not natural.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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