mirko and tako,
i have noticed that there are quite a few pop singing males who sing very high and stay there, who have baritonal speaking voices. i think of jeff buckley as being more lyric baritone in classical thinking, than tenor. (i find his approach to singing to be similar to scott walker, definitely baritonal, and hermann prey.) i think it is the aesthetic that allows him the ease he has with his high range. pop music allows for a varience in timbre and those who have authored books on the subject (seth riggs, roger love, mark baxter), seem to suggest that allowing for and planning on that varience enables the singer to take advantage of more range than they would singing classically.
because the classical singer attempts to have the whole range match in timbre (paul plishka, for example, discusses his attempts to do so in jerome hines' 'great singers on great singing'), the classical singer keeps himself from accessing higher range that would definitely bring about a change in timbre. in classical singing, women are less restricted, in that they are allowed to use chest, mix and falsetto (go ahead, shoot me. i don't care.) where men are only allowed mostly chest and a mix for the high notes. and i think this is why, in classical singing, women are thought to have much wider ranges than men.
removing the strictures of sounding like a 'fach', allows the singer more freedom in range and, allows the singer to use more sounds that are particular to his voice.
mike
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