Do pop singers have voice types?
It’s long but hopefully helpful. From Wikipedia: There is currently no authoritative voice classification system within non-classical music. The problem lies in the fact that classical terms are used to describe not merely various vocal ranges, but specific vocal timbres each unique to those respective ranges, and produced by the classical training techniques with which most popular singers are not intimately familiar and which even those that are do not universally employ. The term non-classical music is typically used to describe music in jazz, pop, blues, soul, country, folk, and rock styles. In the USA Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) is being used by some vocal pedagogues. The quest for common terms for vocalists throughout these styles, more related to the music and the voice timbres rather than just being nonâclassical, has been going on for years. Voice classifiction systems and vocal type terms that have been loosely applied to contemporary voices were created for the purpo
