Stevie's range?
 

I'm talking more about pre-voice lowering here. Does anyone know how many octaves her voice was? I know she could hit quite a few high notes, but I don't know how to measure the range of them. Any ideas? Just something I'm curious about. :cool:

my best guess? at best, she may pull off 3. I think I have close to 3 so I'd say she has pulled off 3 at times.

I figured it was around there. I know Kate Bush and Cyndi are a 4, 4 1/2, so I was using that to compare...

Stevie is a contralto.

In music, an alto or contralto is a singer with a vocal range somewhere between a tenor and a mezzo-soprano. The term is used to refer to the lowest female singing voice, or one of the highest male voices. A typical alto will have a range from around the F below middle C to the E a tenth above middle C (i.e. F3-E5); at the bottom of their range, altos sound almost like tenors. Some altos have even larger ranges; from the C below middle C to the C two octaves above (C3-C6 if middle C is C4). In four part choral harmony, the alto is the second highest voice. Altos originally sang from music written in the alto clef, but now use the treble clef.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../Altstimme.png

originally 3 octaves.

^ Sweet. Thanks for the visuals. ;)