Now if you have been paying attention Mariah’s range (C3 to D7) is 4 octaves and 1 note. That’s why I’m telling the information now so that nobody will get confused. You’ll also find a clip of Mariah singing her G7 and a G7# (it was unintentional because it didn’t match the melody) But I doubt some of the accuracy of what the author has written about Mariah’s range. If you’ve ever heard the clip of Mariah singing All In Your Mind acapella you’ll notice she can’t go higher than D7. Mariah herself has said that she’s hit notes she can no longer do. This explains why none of Mariah’s songs with the exception of Emotions, and All In Your Mind have been written to go higher than D7. When a singer is sick or congested the vocal cords become swollen making it easier to access this range but it can throw a singer off a little when this happens. You see in order to access what is called the flageolet register the vocal cords are held closely together and a high pitched sound moves up into the sinus cavities. The E7 she hit on Emotions (album version), the F7 she hit on All in Your Mind, and the G7 she hit in 2 live versions of Emotions were all done when she was either congested or sick. You see, in actuality Mariah can only sing up to D7. Mariah’s lowest note she ever sung was C3 at the end of My All, and the beginning of Emotions, and You’re So Cold–not A2 or D3 like some people keep saying.Ī singer’s true range is measured by the number of notes they can actually SING–not necessarily HIT. The lowest most men can sing is a G2 while there are those like Viktor Wichniakov (a male opera singer) who can sing C2 (C1 in European standard). Now in order for Mariah to sing all eight octaves she’d have to be able to sing several notes lower than what any man can which is impossible even for someone with her range. There are 8 octaves on the piano and to count octaves you start with the lowest note and count to the same note in the next octave until you get the range. If you’ve been musically trained you know that octaves are arranged C D E F G A B and then C’. However it was later found out that there was some tampering going on with the sound equipment and so she’s supposedly no longer in the book. You can play this note on the piano if you don’t believe me. For those of you who remember Mariah was in the Guinness Book of World Records not to long ago for having a five octave range and singing a G7# when she sang the National Anthem.

Mariah carey octave range