Alex Newell (6,946 views)

[kaji]

Alex Eugene Newell (20 August 1992)
Voice Type: Soprano
Vocal Range: C3-G7

Significant High Notes:

G7 ("Instagram Video")
B♭6 (“Basically Over You (B.O.Y)” The Final Play! 3/7/16, “Mama Will Provide” Live at the 2018 Tony Awards, "Where You At")
G♯6 ("Les oiseaux dans la charmille")
G6 ("The Edge of Glory", "Unknown Song")
F6 ("Poor Unfortunate Souls", “Shame”, "You Gotta Have a Gimmick")
E♭6 ("Instagram Warm-up Video", “Keep It Moving”, "Little Bit of Good", “Live at the Spirit Awards”, “Stronger” House Of Blues Boston 24/2/16)
D6 ("Instagram Warm-up Video", “Hands”, “Random Black Girl”, “Saving All My Love for You”, “Stronger”, "The Edge of Glory")
C♯6 (“Basically Over You (B.O.Y)” Various live performances, "Bells of Notre Dame", “Collect My Love”, "Hold Up The Light", "Little Bit of Good", “Rescue Me”, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” Live with Amber Riley)
C6 (“Boogie Shoes” Various live performances, "Boy, You Can Keep It", "Falling in Love with Love", "Instagram Video", "Ready to Be Loved", “Shame”, "Unknown Song", “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” Various live performances)
B5 (“Hands”, "He's A Tramp", "Hold Up The Light", “Kill The Lights”, “Need Somebody”, "Nobody to Love", “Stronger”, "True Colors" Models of Price Conference at USC)
B♭5 (“And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going” Various live performances, “Basically Over You (B.O.Y)”, “Boogie Shoes”, "Hold Up The Light", "Instagram Video", “Joy to the World” Live in 2015, "Little Bit of Good", “Live at the Spirit Awards”, “One Night Only”, "River Deep Mountain", “Shame”)
A5 ("Boy, You Can Keep It", “Collect My Love”, "He's A Tramp", "I Am Changing", “I Know Where I've Been”, "I'm a Star", “I Will Survive”, “Lean On Me”, “Love You I Do” Miranda Sings version,  "Ready to Be Loved, “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band”, "Where You At")
G♯5 (“Don't Stop Believin'” FEC LA Awards Dinner 2015, "I Am Changing" Instagram video, “I Know Where I've Been” Glee version, “I Will Always Love You” Glee Project version, “Meet The Contenders”, “Need Somebody”, "Nobody to Love", “This Ain't Over”, “Womanizer” Broadway Loves Britney, "You Gotta Have a Gimmick")
G5 (“All Cried Out”, “And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going”, “As If We Never Said Goodbye”, “Boogie Shoes”, “Fabulous, Baby”, “Home”, "I Believe in You and Me", “Kill The Lights”, “Lean On Me”, “Live at the Spirit Awards”, “Love You I Do”, “Mama Will Provide”, “Meet The Contenders”, "Poor Unfortunate Souls" Elsie Fest 2018, "Ready to Be Loved", “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band”, “Stronger”, "The Wizard and I", “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”)
F♯5 ("Big, Blonde and Beautiful", “Hands”, "Hold Up The Light", "I Have Nothing", “I Know Where I've Been”, “I Will Always Love You”, “Keep It Moving”, “Random Black Girl”, “Saving All My Love for You”, "True Colors" Models of Price Conference at USC, “Womanizer”)
F5 (“All Cried Out”, “And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going”, "And There It Is", "A Wonderful Guy", “Basically Over You (B.O.Y)”, “Fabulous, Baby”, "Gospel Truth", "Here's Where I Stand", "I Have Nothing", "I'm a Star", “I'm Every Woman”, “I'm Here”, “Joy to the World”, “Live at the Spirit Awards”, “Love You I Do”, “One Night Only”, “Pinball Wizard”, “Shame”, “Show Me Love”, "Take Me or Leave Me", “The Bitch Is Back/Dress You Up”, "You Gotta Have a Gimmick")
E5 ("Big, Blonde and Beautiful", “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)”, "Boy, You Can Keep It", “Call Me Maybe”, "Chrismas Lullaby", “Collect My Love”, "Defying Gravity", “Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend/Material Girl”, “Discovering Daniel/Pray”, “Diva”, "Don't Rain on My Parade", “Don't Stop Believin'”, “Hands”, "Here's Where I Stand", "Hold Up The Light", “Home”, "I Am Changing", "I Believe in You and Me", “I Know Where I've Been”, “I Will Survive”, “Joy to the World”, “Kill The Lights”, “Lean On Me”, "Little Bit of Good", “Love Child”, “Mamma Mia”, “Meadowlark”, “Need Somebody”, “O Come All Ye Faithful”, “Pinball Wizard”, “Random Black Girl”, “Saving All My Love for You”, “We're Not Gonna Take It”, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”)
E♭5 (“All Cried Out”, “America”, "And There It Is", “As I Am”, "As We Stumble Along", “Basically Over You (B.O.Y)”, "Big, Blonde and Beautiful", “Boogie Shoes”, “Christmas”, “Firework”, "He's A Tramp", “If I Were a Boy”, "I'm a Star", “I'm Every Woman”, "Ireland", “Keep It Moving”, “Mama Will Provide”, "My Favourite Things", "Take Me or Leave Me", “The Bitch Is Back/Dress You Up”, "The Wizard and I", “This Ain't Over”, “This Is the New Year”, “Wannabe”, “Womanizer”, “You Have More Friends Than You Know”)
D5 (“America”, “And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going”, “And The Gods Heard Her Prayer/Rain”, “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)”, "Boy, You Can Keep It", “Call Me Maybe”, "Don't Rain on My Parade", “Don't Stop Believin'”, “Do You Hear What I Hear”, “Hands”, "I Am Changing", “I'm Here”, “Joy to the World”, “Kill The Lights”, “Live at the Spirit Awards”, “Locked Out of Heaven”, "Love On Top", “Love You I Do”, “Mamma Mia”, “Mary's Little Boy Child”, “Pinball Wizard”, "Poor Unfortunate Souls", “Raise Your Glass”, “Random Black Girl”, “Roar”, “Shame”, “Show Me Love”, “SING”, “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band”, “Teenage Dream”, "The Hills are Alive", "True Colors", “U Can't Touch This”, "You Gotta Have a Gimmick")
C♯5 (“As I Am”, "As We Stumble Along", "A Wonderful Guy", “Basically Over You (B.O.Y)”, “Collect My Love”, “Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend/Material Girl”, “Diva”, "Don't Rain on My Parade", "Falling in Love with Love", "Gospel Truth", "Here's Where I Stand", “Hero”, "He's A Tramp", "I Believe in You and Me", “If I Were a Boy”, "I Have Nothing", “Keep It Moving”, “Mama Will Provide”, “Meadowlark”, “Need Somebody”, "Nobody to Love", “One Night Only”, "Ready to Be Loved", “Rescue Me”, “Saving All My Love for You”, “The Bitch Is Back/Dress You Up”, “This Is the New Year”, "Too Beautiful For Words", "True Colors", “Wannabe”, “Womanizer”, “You Have More Friends Than You Know”)
C5 (“And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going”, “As If We Never Said Goodbye”, "As We Stumble Along", "A Wonderful Guy", “Bad Romance”, “Boogie Shoes”, "Boy, You Can Keep It", “Christmas”, “Devilish”, “Do You Hear What I Hear”, “Fabulous, Baby”, "Falling in Love with Love", “His Eyes On the Sparrow”, “Home”, "I Am Changing", “I Know Where I've Been”, "I'm a Star", “I'm Here”, “Live at the Spirit Awards”, “Locked Out of Heaven”, “Love Child”, “Love You I Do”, “Mary's Little Boy Child”, "My Favourite Things", “O Come All Ye Faithful”, “One Night Only”, “On Our Way”, “Outcast”, “Raise Your Glass”, “Random Black Girl”, “Same Love”, “Shame”, “Show Me Love”, “SING”, “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band”, "Take Me or Leave Me", “There Are Worse Things I Could Do”, "The Wizard and I", “This Ain't Over”, “Valerie”, “We Dance”, “Wide Awake”, “You Have More Friends Than You Know”, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”)
B4 (“America”, “And The Gods Heard Her Prayer/Rain”, "A Wonderful Guy", "Big, Blonde and Beautiful", “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)”, “Call Me Maybe”, “Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend/Material Girl”, “Discovering Daniel/Pray”, “Diva”, "Don't Rain on My Parade", "Falling in Love with Love", “Hands”, "Here's Where I Stand", “Hero”, “Hey, Soul Sister”, “Home (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros)”, "I Believe in You and Me", “In Your Eyes”, "Ireland", “I Will Always Love You”, “I Will Survive”, “Joy to the World”, “Kill The Lights”, “Like A Virgin”, “Love Child”, "Love On Top", “Mamma Mia”, “Meadowlark”, "Ready to Be Loved", “Rescue Me”, “Saving All My Love for You”, “Starships”, “Stronger”, “There Are Worse Things I Could Do”, “This Is the New Year”, "True Colors", “Under Pressure/Ice Ice Baby”, “Why We Tell the Story”)

Significant Low Notes:

B♭3 (“All Cried Out”, "And There It Is", “As If We Never Said Goodbye”, “Basically Over You (B.O.Y)”, “Boogie Shoes”, “Devilish”, “Fabulous, Baby”, “His Eyes On the Sparrow”, “Home”, “I'm Every Woman”, "Ireland", "Little Bit of Good", “Mama Will Provide”, “O Come All Ye Faithful”, “One Night Only”, “Outcast”, “Roar”, “Same Love”, “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band”, “This Ain't Over”, "You Gotta Have a Gimmick")
A3 (“And The Gods Heard Her Prayer/Rain”, “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)”, "Boy, You Can Keep It", “Discovering Daniel/Pray”, “Do You Hear What I Hear”, "Falling in Love with Love", “Hero”, “I Will Always Love You”, “Locked Out of Heaven”, “Meadowlark”, “Nowadays”, “Pinball Wizard”, "Poor Unfortunate Souls", “Random Black Girl”, "Ready to Be Loved", “Show Me Love”, “Starships”, “There Are Worse Things I Could Do”, "True Colors")
G♯3 (“As I Am”, “Christmas”, “Devilish”, “His Eyes On the Sparrow”, "Hold Up The Light", “I Love It”, “Need Somebody”, “Need You Now”, “O Come All Ye Faithful”, “One Night Only”, “Outcast”, “This Ain't Over”, “You Have More Friends Than You Know”)
G3 ("And There It Is", “As If We Never Said Goodbye”, "As We Stumble Along", “Bad Romance”, “Call Me Maybe”, “Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend/Material Girl”, “Home”, "I Have Nothing", “I'm Every Woman”, “Joy to the World”, “Shame”, "The Wizard and I")
F♯3 (“Collect My Love”, "I Believe in You and Me", “If I Were a Boy”, “Mary's Little Boy Child”, “Saving All My Love for You”, “Womanizer”)
F3 (“I Know Where I've Been”, “Love You I Do”, “Mad World”, “Mary's Little Boy Child”, "Poor Unfortunate Souls")
E3 (“Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend/Material Girl”, "Don't Rain on My Parade", “Joy to the World”, “Love Child”, "Love On Top", “Need Somebody”)
E♭3 (“Basically Over You (B.O.Y)” The Final Play! 3/7/16, “If I Were a Boy”, "Poor Unfortunate Souls" Elsie Fest 2018, “Same Love”, "Too Beautiful For Words", “Womanizer”)
D3 (“I Know Where I've Been” Glee version, “Random Black Girl”)
C♯3 (“Womanizer” Broadway Loves Britney)
C3 (“Shame”)
........................................
Blue marks notes sung in head voice or whistle register.
Underlines marks notes found in harmonies and backing vocals.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Questionable Notes }
C6 ("I'm a Star" ^[3])
G5 ("I Am Changing" ^[1])
C3 ("Beauty School Dropout" ^[1])
A2 ("Boy, You Can Keep It" ^[2])
.......................................................
[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Album Ranges }
The Glee Project (Season 1) (2011) – F3-A5-B♭5
Glee (Season Three) (2012) – A3-B♭5
Glee (Season Four) (2012) – E♭3-F♯5
Glee (Season Five) (2013) – E♭3-A5
Glee (Season Six) (2015) - D3-G♯5
Power (2016) – C3-B♭5-F6
Once on This Island (New Broadway Cast Recording) (2018) - A3-G5

[Tara]

This is excellent and you should be proud of this wow
Just one typo - B♭5: "River Deep Mountain" -> "River Deep Mountain High"
"I Love It" is probably the only song that tops under C5 so I think you could axe the B♭4 and B4 sections without losing anything significant (except the bold B4 in Meadowlark, but he goes up to E5 right after that and that's just as impressive, if not more so).

[kaji]

Mar 18, 2020 7:25:31 GMT Tara said:

This is excellent and you should be proud of this wow
Just one typo - B♭5: "River Deep Mountain" -> "River Deep Mountain High"
"I Love It" is probably the only song that tops under C5 so I think you could axe the B♭4 and B4 sections without losing anything significant (except the bold B4 in Meadowlark, but he goes up to E5 right after that and that's just as impressive, if not more so).

Thank you very much!

I'll think of chopping out the Bb-B section.

[Alex61]

As a heads up, for male singers I don't think anyone starts lows as high as B♭3. G3 is as high as we generally go, though I suppose in a situation like this you could go up to G♯3 or A3 if you felt it was really necessary :thumb:

[kaji]

Mar 20, 2020 15:15:17 GMT Alex61 said:

As a heads up, for male singers I don't think anyone starts lows as high as B♭3. G3 is as high as we generally go, though I suppose in a situation like this you could go up to G♯3 or A3 if you felt it was really necessary

I'm gonna have to disagree with you on this one. Alex is an unique case. I generally ignore gender/sex when doing threads like this and base the starting pitches of the singer's tessitura and the range they sing in. Voices are pretty individual and there are cases where female singers have voices significantly lower than some men (there's an actual female bass out there on Youtube) and there are men who have voices significantly higher than many women. 

[Alex61]

At the same time, even other lows-phobic men on the forum (Steve Perry, Bob Marley, Jay Kay, Justin Hawkins) don't have thresholds all the way up to B♭3. Based on the B♭3 you've bolded (which I wouldn't bold either, personally) it doesn't sound like it's a significantly low note for him.

['S]

Might I add that I was hesitant about going all the way up to G♯3 making Jimin's thread, even then compared to Alex he's way fewer lows and is barely more comfortable singing down there... and on a few albums Jimin never even ventures below G♯3 singing lead.

[sweetenerboy]

Kaj u missed some Bb5 in Boogie Shoes. Other than that, Great Job!

[kaji]

Mar 6, 2021 10:29:23 GMT sweetenerboy said:

Kaj u missed some Bb5 in Boogie Shoes. Other than that, Great Job!

It’s there though lol. Also thanks!

[Captain Planet]

Mar 20, 2020 15:54:24 GMT kaji said:

(there's an actual female bass out there on Youtube)

Interested in seeing this if you have a link.

I've seen a couple of very deep voiced females on youtube but they all turned out to have been M-F trans or F-M-F detrans.

[kaji]

Mar 6, 2021 17:55:20 GMT Captain Planet said:

Mar 20, 2020 15:54:24 GMT kaji said:

(there's an actual female bass out there on Youtube)

Interested in seeing this if you have a link.

I've seen a couple of very deep voiced females on youtube but they all turned out to have been M-F trans or F-M-F detrans.

Well, she's just a normal contralto but she has a very well developed strohbass register allowing her to sing bass. And yes, she's an AFAB, not MTF.
youtu.be/GY-FfnTodiM?t=223
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZh9PjkoolE
Here's her singing in normal full voice:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWcLpzLDWb8

[sweetenerboy]

Mar 6, 2021 12:57:38 GMT kaji said:

Mar 6, 2021 10:29:23 GMT sweetenerboy said:

Kaj u missed some Bb5 in Boogie Shoes. Other than that, Great Job!

It’s there though lol. Also thanks!

sorry, i guess my reading skillz are not that great lmao

['S]

Mar 6, 2021 17:55:20 GMT Captain Planet said:

I've seen a couple of very deep voiced females on youtube but they all turned out to have been M-F trans or F-M-F detrans.

There are a few cis females with deep voices and extended lows right here on the forum though:

Nina Hagen

Moon Joo-ran

Miley Cyrus

[blazejecar2]

Mar 6, 2021 18:24:29 GMT kaji said:

Mar 6, 2021 17:55:20 GMT Captain Planet said:

Interested in seeing this if you have a link.

I've seen a couple of very deep voiced females on youtube but they all turned out to have been M-F trans or F-M-F detrans.

Well, she's just a normal contralto but she has a very well developed strohbass register allowing her to sing bass. And yes, she's an AFAB, not MTF.
youtu.be/GY-FfnTodiM?t=223
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZh9PjkoolE
Here's her singing in normal full voice:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWcLpzLDWb8

is anyone working on a thread for her? That'd be pretty interesting to see

[kaji]

Sept 27, 2021 18:07:00 GMT blazejecar2 said:

Mar 6, 2021 18:24:29 GMT kaji said:

Well, she's just a normal contralto but she has a very well developed strohbass register allowing her to sing bass. And yes, she's an AFAB, not MTF.
youtu.be/GY-FfnTodiM?t=223
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZh9PjkoolE
Here's her singing in normal full voice:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWcLpzLDWb8

is anyone working on a thread for her? That'd be pretty interesting to see

I'm planning to eventually. Just got a lot of threads to finish up first. Thanks for reminding me though. 

[rulerofrealms]

What typeof soprano is Alex, lyric?