mirko,
i just listened to 'grace' and i think you're right. i do think jeff buckley would be considered a tenor (if that mattered). what makes me think that is more the way he uses his low range rather than his upper range. the way he uses his upper range seems similar to the way morten harket and scott walker use theirs. these two singers strike me more as baritones.
the approach these singers take seems to make more use of falsetto and the ability to go from falsetto to 'real' voice without any break. the classical singers i have heard who come close to doing this are; nicolai gedda, sergei lemeshev, dietrich fischer-dieskau, hermann prey and occasionally, thomas hampson. richard miller, in his book 'training tenor voices', cautions against this approach saying that "it may cause poor occlusion of the vocal folds". unfortunately, that's all he said. however, this came in the context of poo-pooing the use of falsetto entirely, except by counter-tenors.
mike
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