chest voice

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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Vocally, this choice is slightly challenging because it’s in the higher range of the mezzo-soprano chest voice, Glass said, adding that you need a strong belt and a mastery of quick words.

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The note jumps also cross between chest voice and head voice for many singers, which is a challenge for the inexperienced, she added.

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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.

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

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