Category talk:Tenors

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Did somebody remove all of the pop singers here? Should there be a separate category for pop singers with tenor ranges? I know opera snobs question the legitimacy of vocal range in popular genres, but there are certainly sopranos and altos, tenors and basses and baritones in pop, just like in any art music you'd care to name. What happened here?

Yes, I have to agree with the above. Tenor is a measure of range, not your musical genre. Although "tenor" is usually referred to opera singers, technically pop singers are legitimately qualified.

Yeah, not everyone sings opera. I mean, some of the most "tenorish" singers (Meat Loaf, Michael Jackson, Sebastian Bach, Gerard Way, etc)?

[edit] pop singers cannot be tenor.

Yes tenor is a range but it is also a range of voice that has the same quality of timbre meaning that you don't shift to a pure head voice, but high notes are taken with a mixed voice that still keeps qualities of the "natural range" or chest range. If somebody sings only with the head voice, with the same techics as opera singing he is a countertenor. Florez do not sing as Rubini did.In pop music high notes are closer to a scream than anything else. This technic is an essential quality of opera singing and is called homogenization. Furthermore, to be or not to be a tenor is a matter of color of voice. Certain baryton have the same range as some tenor or would fit into the category of tenor but nevertheless, they are barytons because of the color of their voice. What is the difference between a lyrical or a dramatic tenor? somewhere the range but it is not very relevant. Alagna or Pavarotti sing La fille du regiment as well as Florez. Again here the color of their voice is different. [User:Sameowulf|Sameowulf]] 11:38, 23 October 2007 (UTC)