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Whitney Houston vocal range: C♯3 to E♭6

Whitney Houston's documented vocal range runs from C♯3 to E♭6, a span of about 3 octaves and 2 semitones.

Lowest noteC♯3, in "Try It on My Own"
Highest noteE♭6, in falsetto, in "Heartbreak Hotel", live at Wembley Arena in 1999
Span3 octaves and 2 semitones

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Where these notes come from

The notes on this page are taken from The Range Planet, a community forum that documents singers' notes song by song (archived copy). We did not measure them ourselves. We also read the 2014 Concert Hotels chart. The 2014 Concert Hotels chart lists C6 as the highest note.

Published ranges count every note a singer has been recorded producing, including falsetto, whistle notes and very low spoken or growled notes where the source includes them. The range a singer uses comfortably in most songs is narrower.

Can you learn to sing in Whitney Houston's range?

You can extend your own range with regular, gentle practice, a note at a time at each end. Whether you can reach these exact notes depends on your voice type. A song that sits too high or too low for you can always be sung in a different key. Start with 5 tips to improve your vocal range, or find your voice type first.

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