page_title: Voce faringea
section_title: Application in contemporary popular singing styles
hierarchical_section_title: Voce faringea / Application in contemporary popular singing styles
caption_attribution_description: Photo by Dan&amp;Corina Lecca
context_page_description: In vocal music the term voce faringea describes a historical singing practice developed and used especially by the bel canto tenors of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century to extend the upper range of the voice by modifying the falsetto, which is typically heard as a weak or feminine sound, into a vocal quality that is more tenoral and powerful.
context_section_description: In recent years, the pharyngeal voice has been rediscovered also by representatives of the CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music) genres like Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Freddy Mercury, Axl Rose, Brian Johnson or Jon Bon Jovi as well as by well-known stars of the Broadway musical. In contemporary popular music singing styles the pharyngeal voice is typically seen as an effective coupling mechanism between the modal and falsetto registers and primarily used in semi-metallic and metallic phonation modes—for example by male rock and hard rock artists singing in exceptionally high vocal ranges similar to those of the high bel canto tenor repertoire of the early nineteenth century. 
  In addition, the pharyngeal voice can also be trained and used in a particularly effectively way by female CCM vocalists as an extension or partly replacement of the traditional belting technique, which is typically based on the laryngeal modal or chest register. Regarding the resonance strategy for both vocal mechanisms, which is in particular the aim to amplify metallic sound components, there can be found wide similarities for belting and the pharyngeal voice, why the latter is also known as Faux Belt or Fake Belt. However, by applying a comparably reduced vocal fold mass in falsetto mechanism and lower subglottic air pressure ratios, the pharyngeal voice can be used more flexible and economical in the high belting ranges with comparable sound intensity and voice power.
caption: Chaka Khan
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