Singing

This article is about her singing, per se (characteristics, techniques, abilities, etc.). For information about songs she has sung, please see Songs.

Singing is, of course, a huge topic when it comes to Angelina Jordan. Which is why this article is so much a "work in progress".

Beginnings

Angelina began singing when she was 1½ years old. A short video clip of her singing as a baby aired on the TV show Lørdagsmagasinet on 2014-04-05. An A-magasinet [Aftenposten's A-Magazine] article from 2017-12 or perhaps 2018-01 describes the moment that Angelina's rare singing ability was discovered:

Oslo, a July evening in 2007: One-and-a-half-year-old Angelina is at home with the babysitter. Mother Sara Astar lets herself in and nearly goes into shock when she looks into the bedroom. Her daughter is sitting in bed mumble-singing Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You". That sounds so nice, Sara thinks, and she senses something more in her daughter's voice. A peculiarity she is unable to define there and then.

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Training

Angelina received general musical training in primary school and received additional vocal training in an afterschool program at the Oslo Municipal School of Music and Culture [Oslo musikk- og kulturskole] in Marienlyst.

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Development

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Vocal range

Lowest notes

As of the end of 2022, the lowest note Angelina has sung in any recording found online is slightly lower than a C₃ (an octave below middle C^↗) in "How Great Thou Art", recorded when she was 12. The lowest note she has sung with good breath support is a D₃ in that same song, as well as in several other songs.

Highest notes

The information in this section needs to be updated to account for more recent developments.

As of the end of 2022, the highest note she has sung is a "shriek" pitched somewhere around a G₆ in the black-and-white music video for "I Put a Spell on You", recorded sometime in the first few months after she turned 9. Since that note was not sung particularly cleanly, it is worth considering the highest "pure-tone" note and the highest belted note she has sung (as of the end of 2022). The first of these would be a G₅ in head voice (or perhaps falsetto, depending on your point of view) in "Unchained Melody", sung on the TV talk show Lindmo when she was 9 and again later in a video recorded at home when she was 12 or 13. Her highest belted note (in mixed voice) is around an F♯₅ in her original cover of "I Have Nothing", recorded when she was 13, or possibly 12.

Outside of singing, the highest pitch Angelina is documented to have ever emitted is a scream that she let out while riding a roller coaster at the Tusenfryd amusement park when she was 10. The pitch of this scream has not been determined but definitely lies within her whistle register.

For reference, the Guinness World Record^↗ for the lowest note sung by a female is a C♯₁ (nearly 2 octaves below Angelina's C₃), by Canadian singer Joy Chapman in 2021; and the highest is an astounding G₁₀ (4 octaves above a G₆), by Brazilian singer Georgia Brown in 2004. As Guinness points out, that "highest note" is technically not even a musical note, as its frequency of just over 25 kHz is (as a pure tone) well beyond the hearing ability of most humans, which generally tops out at around 20–22 kHz. Not surprisingly, Brown also holds the record for the largest vocal range for a female: G₂ (3 notes below Angelina's C₃) to G₁₀.

Range

Using only the pitches Angelina has demonstrated while actually singing a melody (i.e., not counting the shriek or the scream discussed above), her vocal range would amount to just over 3½ octaves (C₃–G₆). This compares favorably to many of the popular female singers that Angelina has covered multiple times, including Billie Holiday (famous for having a relatively limited range of around 2 octaves), Amy Winehouse (widely reported to have a demonstrated range of just over 3 octaves: D₃–E♭₆) and Adele (most sources claim something close to 3 octaves: C₃–C₆). But it falls far short of the ranges of singers who are well known for that particular aspect of their voice, such as Whitney Houston (claimed to have a 4-octave range, starting at around an A₂), Minnie Ripperton^↗ (at least 4 octaves), and Mariah Carey (5 octaves).

Note that range estimates of singers can differ greatly across sources because some count every note sung, regardless of how cleanly and clearly (as long as the note can be identified), whereas others count only well supported notes in the singer's tessitura or (apparently even more restrictive) in their modal register (omitting poorly supported low notes and, at the other extreme, falsetto and/or whistle notes). This can make direct comparisons quite difficult.

Voice type

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