Singers who can belt super HIGH!!!- Page 3

[Jazzysuite82]

Posted: 3/17/06 at 11:33pm

There are a lot of things that cause a crack. Usually the performer is doing something wrong though. But it happens. Cracking is your voice's way of trying to free itself. I've been in Operas where it's happened.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 3/18/06 at 10:05am

No matter what anyone says, as soon as we're talking high Fs, there MUST be some mixing going on -- no one's chords could handle it otherwise. We just aren't pysiologically able to do that. Some people throw more head voice in, and some throw more chest in, but it is still a mix.

And, for those who say Eden's voice is gonna be trashed, I think you'll be surprised in ten and twenty years, when she can still do it. She mixes (much like Patti Lupone), and will always be able to. Her belt technique (even if you don't like her tone) is pretty flawless. And as such, she saves her voice quite a lot of damage.

[broadwayboy81]

Posted: 3/18/06 at 10:58am

I'm so surprised at how little Alice Ripley appears on this list. And I'm even more surprised that people would actually say she's not a high belter.... F's aren't high belt? She gets up there with the best of 'em. Not to mention the 8000 E's she had to belt in side show. Take another listen. This is one our greatest high belters.

-Broadwayboy... who was hoping she would have been cast as Evita in London and is now hoping she will do it on Broadway...

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 3/18/06 at 10:58am

Matthew Morrison
Will Chase
Patrick Wilson Updated On: 3/18/06 at 10:58 AM

[michelle4]

Posted: 3/18/06 at 11:44am

Touchmeinthemorning, I couldn't agree more.

Mixing is an artform. It is learning how to put enough chest in so that it has that belt quality, but is still safe. Doing this isn't "cheating". It is singing, not screaming.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 3/18/06 at 11:57am

I can't believe that Adam Pascal hasn't been mentioned yet-- the top of his range is incredible. He makes the C/C#s in Chess look easy.

Posted: 3/18/06 at 1:42pm

i am with touchme and michelle...good posts!

[rock00]

Posted: 3/18/06 at 3:51pm

"I can't believe that Adam Pascal hasn't been mentioned yet-- the top of his range is incredible. He makes the C/C#s in Chess look easy."

Yeah, but they sound like sh*t. Grovelling at the top of your lungs and hoping your throat doesn't explode isn't belting (or even healthy singing). You want high C's and D's, look no further than Philip Casnoff.

Oh, and wouldn't Chase, Wilson, and Morrison just be considered tenors? I don't know that I've ever heard any of them go exceptionally high.

Posted: 3/18/06 at 4:27pm

i am with you rock00! great post!
and yes...Will Chase is definately a tenor!! he can hit some pretty high stuff.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 3/18/06 at 4:35pm

"Belting" for a singer, to me, means being able to carry a sound at loud volume, and generally a high note.

So if a soprano can belt, why not a tenor?

And I have heard Morrison, Chase and Wilson each sing very high notes with great vocal support and volume. Amazing, in fact.

So how do you choose to define or limit the term "belter?"

Posted: 3/18/06 at 4:38pm

thats a good question...
i don't know that i have ever heard of a MAN being called a belter...

Posted: 3/18/06 at 4:39pm

Yeah, but they sound like sh*t.

You've got to be kidding me. I realize that I'm incredibly biased, but I honestly don't see how one could say that Pascal's "Pity the Child" (and his high note in "A Taste of Pity," for that matter) sounded like sh*t. Preferring Casnoff's PTC is one thing, but I can't fathom someone saying that Adam sounded like sh*t, either.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 3/18/06 at 4:46pm

Kelli does a great Idina impersonation.

She sang LITP with some belting once. It was weird.

And what I think some performers listed here do is sing opera - not belt.

Just because they can sing a note with power doesn't mean they are belting. I think Maria Callas would bite off some of your heads if you said she could "belt." (Though I wonder if she could....)

Patrick Wilson in MONTY singing the last note of MAN.

[NYC4Life]

Posted: 3/18/06 at 4:47pm

Raul Esparza has an awesome belt. I cant stand edens live, it sounds like screaming to me. Non broadway i cant get enough of Patti Labelles belt! I dont know how she does it.

Posted: 3/19/06 at 6:27pm

does Emma's F at the end of In HIs Eyes count??
it should..its hard and ..um...like...totally..SUPER high! LOL!

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 3/19/06 at 6:40pm

Except people make it look easy.

Posted: 3/19/06 at 6:43pm

oh yea...right..so easy! LOL ..thank GOD its the LAST thing she had to sing in the show!

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 3/19/06 at 6:45pm

Let's add Linda Eder to this list.

::swoon::

I love her MAN OF LA MANCHA!
And IMPOSSIBLE DREAM!

Posted: 3/19/06 at 6:51pm

BSo..i think i beat you a while back and someone else beat ME..
she is AMAAAAAAAZING. truly a super talent.

[keatonbynumbers]

Posted: 3/19/06 at 6:54pm

Has no one mentioned Betty Buckley?

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 3/19/06 at 6:54pm

Well, I don't see the problem in adding her name 5 times.

I love her DROMP!

And her Judy Garland album!

[keatonbynumbers]

Posted: 3/19/06 at 6:57pm

Linda Eder's Judy Garland album is the best thing that ever happened to my ears and I am PROBABLY not exaggerating.

I love that woman.

[GClef2]

Posted: 3/19/06 at 7:22pm

Carolee Carmello has an INSANE belt...especially on the Infinite Joy track "I Have Found" she hits that E like whoa.

[My Name in Lights]

Posted: 3/19/06 at 7:42pm

Does the name Mandy Gonzalez mean anything to anyone here? She is so unbelieveable to watch when she sings...whether belting high or low, it always look effortless...and sounds incredible!

Posted: 3/19/06 at 7:55pm

keaton, i'm with you.
and mandy gonzalez needs a better show and someone will reognize her! isn't it amazing how you can STAR in a Broadway show and it can be like it never happened??!! it blows my mind.