chest voice

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

Diving into her chest voice, but not milking it or pushing too hard, her tone stayed round, warm and not all that loud, an iron fist in a cashmere glove.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2018

“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

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