Faith Hill Vocal Range and Profile

Vocal Type: Mezzo-Soprano.

Vocal Range: 2 Octaves, 6 notes and one semitone. C3-F5-Bb5.

Grade: A

Best Vocals In: Piece Of My Heart, It Matters To Me, I Got My Baby, Breathe, There You'll Be, Cry, If This Is The End, When The Lights Go Down, Paris.

Vocal Pluses: Warm, mature and rich texture, along with long training and great enunciation and expressiveness all make Faith Hill a great vocalist as a whole. Despite she does not have an impressively wide range, she is the proof that the quality, ease, support and tone of the note produced are more important than how many notes can you sing. 

Faith Hill seems to have great control and command over her instrument, both at its lower and upper extremities, and this understanding and consciousness helps her in terms of freedom over her voice. She is able to sing vocal runs [The Star Spangled Banner], melisma [Sunshine And Summertime] and riffs [If This Is The End]. Further, her great breath control and support admits her to hold notes for periods without fatiguing or wavering [There You'll Be] in tone or pitch. This is most of the times executed with the help of her natural, wide and supported vibrato, but it can be removed if the situation requires it [Beautiful]. However, she doesn't overuse those techniques, maybe due to the country music genre she sings. Also a brilliant versatility, as a vocalist: her natural warm, rounded and "neutral" tone admits her to adapt well to many genres, emphasizing this natural quality [Pop, Adult Contemporary, Soul], changing it with a more raspy and edgy texture [Free] or adding a country twang only when it is required [Piece Of My Heart, Sunshine And Summertime]. 

At its lowest, the bottom half of the third octave, voice is silkier and crispier most of the times [Paris]. She sounds comfortable in her range here, as notes such as C3s or Eb3s seem to be relaxed and correctly hit [I Got My Baby, Cry, Baby You Belong]. They can be executed with a breathier, warmer sound to emphasize some kind of emotions [Breathe].

As she ascends in upper third and mid fourth octave, voice starts gaining volume and warmth: this is where Hill's voice sounds the more reflected from her talking voice. This area also is the most used in order to convey different emotions: joy [This Kiss], balladry [There You'll Be] or anger [Cry].

The belting range is quite expansive, considering her overall range. It starts as low as F#4/G4 and can go up to an impressive F5 with ease. This area can be split into two parts. The lower belting range, from a G4 to a C#5, sound like it is obtained by slightly lowering the larynx, as voice takes on a rich, weighty and "congested" sound that is fuller and stronger [Breathe]. As she ascends the fifth octave, the larynx becomes natural and consequently notes are brighter, lighter and clearer, and with less weight. Even if notes tent to be always direct and clear here [If This Is The End], she execute those notes with a coarser quality [see here and here]. However, due to great technique and breath support, this notes always come out as powerful and strong.

The Diva has a light, silky falsetto that gives voice a nice contrast to the weighty belting range. Despite not used very often, she has the ability to switch from a belt to a falsetto note evenly and quickly [Breathe]. The head voice, if possible less used than falsetto and almost "not existent", is warm, smooth and soothing [I Want You].

Overall, Faith Hill is a legendary, technical singer who only has to fix some issues.

Vocal Negatives: The head voice is very underused, even if it seems quite developed. Also, (as a country singer), her agility is quite good/decent but could be better. Her overall range could also be explored more, as i'm pretty sure she can sing both lower and higher but she doesn't seems interested at it. Occasionally, her support in the belting range drops a bit lower.