Famous Singers With The Greatest Vocal Ranges

Opera singers often have very good TONE and CONTROL, some of them have large ranges, but that is not what makes a good opera singer. In fact most opera singers specialize in a particular range, that's why you here them referred to as a tenor or a soprano etc. On the other hand, a pop or rock singer simply sings in whatever range they feel for is the best fit for a particular song. Since they sing a variety of different songs they often end up singing a much larger range than most opera singers. Here is a quote from a wikipedia article about vocal range: "An opera singer would therefore only be able to include the notes that they are able to adequately project over an orchestra within his or her vocal range. In contrast, a pop artist could include notes that could be heard with the aid of a microphone." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_range. So pop/rock singers actually do usually have larger ranges, but that doesn't mean they are necessarily better singers.

In other words, Axl Rose blows Luciano Pavarotti out of the water when it comes to range. Overall singing ability however, is a matter of taste.

Well first, Luke bryan is not on THIS list. So you haven't really said anything relevant. a range of C3 to E5 is considerably smaller than the range of the last person on this list. and second, the title of this quiz is "Famous singers..." And I would be willing to bet that ANY or all of the singers that you CLAIM have a larger vocal range than these people, are not nearly as famous. If you can provide a source that shows some opera singer has a range that fits on this quiz, I would be happy to add them, But so far your argument is just wrong.

And STILL, no one has given me even a single example of a person who has a range that puts them on this list. I am more than happy to add people if you give me a name and a range. But nobody has been able to do that yet. So until someone gives me an actual example, I consider this to be a perfectly valid list.