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[SailorBlue]

Yusuf Islam (21 July 1948 - Present)
Vocal Range: B♭1 - D5
Voice Type: This Voice Type Has Been Redacted Due to the U.S. Patriot Act of 2001

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{Album Ranges}Cat Stevens:
Matthew & Son (1967): E2 - G4 - A4
New Masters (1967): F♯2 - G♯4
Mona Bone Jakon (1970): C2 - F♯4
Tea for the Tillerman (1970): D2 - A4 - C♯5
Teaser and the Firecat (1971): D2 - G4 - D5
Catch Bull at Four (1972): D2 - A4 - B4
Foreigner (1973): D2 - G4 - B♭4
Buddha and the Chocolate Box (1974): E2 - G4 - C♯5
Numbers (1975): E2 - F♯4 - A4
Izitso (1977): A2 - F♯4 - B4
Back to Earth (1978): D2 - G4 - C♯5

Yusuf:
An Other Cup (2006): D2 - F4
Roadsinger (2009): G2 - E4
Tell 'Em I'm Gone (2014): E2 - G4 - D5

Yusuf/Cat Stevens:
The Laughing Apple (2017): B♭1 - G4 - A4
Tea for the Tillerman 2 (2020): D2 - G4 - C♯5

Yusuf Islam:
The Life of the Last Prophet (1995): E♭2 - G4
I Have No Cannons That Roar (1998): A2 - D4
Prayers of the Last Prophet (1999): E♭2 - F4
A Is for Allah (2000): C♯3 - F♯4
I Look I See (2003): B2 - E♭4
I Look, I See 2 (2008): E♭2 - E4

*I am aware he has more of these kinds of albums, but they either don't have any sung notes or I couldn't find them.

Significant High Notes:

D5 ("Big Boss Man", "Rubylove")
C♯5 ("But I Might Die Tonight", "Nascimento", "Sun/C79")
C5 ("Music", "Tea For the Tillerman")
B4 ("Bonfire", "Nascimento", "O' Caritas")
B♭4 ("100 I Dream", "Later", "Silent Sunlight")
A4 ("A Bad Penny", "Banapple Gas", "But I Might Die Tonight", "Freezing Steel", "I See a Road", "See What Love Did to Me", "Sun/C79", "Whistlestar", "You Are My Sunshine")
G♯4 ("100 I Dream", "Ceylon City")
G4 ("18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmare)", "The Boy With a Moon and Star On His Head", "But I Might Die Tonight" Tea For the Tillerman 2, "Daytime", "Doors", "Dying to Live", "The First Cut is the Deepest", "How Many Times", "The Hurt", "Jzero", "Lady", "Moonshadow", "Music", "New York Times", "O' Caritas", "On the Road to Find Out", "Randy", "Silent Sunlight", "Tala'a Al-Badru 'Alayna", "You Can Do (Whatever)!")
F♯4 ("100 I Dream", "Bad Brakes", "Bonfire", "But I Might Die Tonight", "Ceylon City", "Changes IV", "Editing Floor Blues", "Foreigner Suite", "Freezing Steel", "Granny", "Home in the Sky", "Hummingbird", "I Love My Dog", "I Think I See the Light", "I've Found a Love", "Lady", "Later", "Majik of Majiks", "Matthew & Son", "Miles From Nowhere", "Never", "Pop Star", "Ready", "S Salam, Salam", "Sun/C79", "Sweet Jamaica", "Where Do the Children Play?", "You Are My Sunshine")
F4 ("The Beloved", "Big Boss Man", "Bitterblue", "Cat and the Dog Trap", "Come On and Dance", "Drywood", "Gold Digger", "Hard Headed Woman", "I Love Them All", "(I Never Wanted) to Be a Star", "I See a Road", "I Wish, I Wish", "Killin' Time", "King of Trees", "Longer Boats" Tea For the Tillerman 2, "Music", "Nascimento", "New York Times", "O' Caritas", "Rabbi Ya Rahman", "School is Out", "Silent Sunlight", "Sweet Scarlet", "Trouble", "When I Speak to the Flowers")
E4 ("100 I Dream", "18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmare)", "Angelsea", "Baby Get Your Head Screwed On", "Bad Brakes", "A Bad Penny", "Banapple Gas", "Bonfire", "Bring Another Bottle Baby", "Call to Prayer (Adhan)", "Can't Keep it in", "Cat and the Dog Trap", "Child For a Day", "Come On Baby (Shift That Log)", "Crazy", "Doors", "Drywood", "Dying to Live", "Father and Son", "Fill My Eyes", "The First Cut is the Deepest", "Foreigner Suite", "Freezing Steel", "Ghost Town", "Heaven / Where True Love Goes", "Here Comes My Baby", "Home", "Home in the Sky", "How Can I Tell You", "How Many Times", "The Hurt", "If I Laugh", "I Love My Dog", "I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun", "I'm So Sleepy", "In Sa'altu", "I Think I See the Light", "I've Found a Love", "I Wish, I Wish", "Jesus", "Just Another Night", "Kitty", "Last Love Song", "Later", "Life", "Longer Boats", "Matthew & Son", "Maybe You're Right", "Mona Bone Jakon", "Morning Has Broken", "One Day at a Time", "On the Road to Find Out", "Peace Train", "Pop Star", "Ramadan Moon", "Randy", "Ruins", "Sad Lisa", "Silent Sunlight", "Sitting", "Smash Your Heart", "Tea For the Tillerman", "Tell 'Em I'm Gone", "Time", "To Be What You Must", "The Tramp", "Wild World")

Significant Low Notes:

D3 ("But I Might Die Tonight", "Can't Keep it in", "Ceylon City", "Daytime", "The Devil Came From Kansas", "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", "Drywood", "Fill My Eyes", "Foreigner Suite", "Home", "Home in the Sky", "How Can I Tell You", "How Many Times", "The Hurt", "I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun", "Introduction", "I See a Road", "I've Found a Love", "I Wish, I Wish", "Just Another Night", "Killin' Time", "Lady D'Arbanville", "Land o' Freelove & Goodbye", "Last Love Song", "Majik of Majiks", "Midday (Avoid City After Dark)", "Mighty Peace", "Moonshadow", "Never", "New York Times", "O' Caritas", "One Day at a Time", "Permission to Fight", "Prayers on the Prophet", "Ramadan Moon", "Ready", "Ruins", "See What Love Did to Me", "Sad Lisa", "School is Out", "Tala'al Badru Alayna", "Tell 'Em I'm Gone", "The Tramp", "Tuesday's Dead", "Where Do the Children Play?", "Wild World", "World o' Darkness")
C♯3 ("A is For Allah", "Baby Get Your Head Screwed On", "Call to Prayer Adhan", "Child For a Day", "Dream On (Until...)", "Father", "Home in the Sky", "If I Laugh", "Never", "S Salam, Salam")
C3 ("The Beloved", "But I Might Die Tonight" Tea For the Tillerman 2, "Cat and the Dog Trap", "Changes IV", "Don't Blame Them", "Ghost Town", "Green Fields, Golden Sands", "I'm So Sleepy", "(I Never Wanted) to Be a Star", "King of Trees", "Lilywhite", "Morning Has Broken", "Music", "Northern Wind", "Olive Hill", "Peace Train", "Roadsinger (to Warm You Through the Night)", "School is Out", "Silent Sunlight", "Sweet Scarlet", "Tala'a Al-Badru 'Alayna", "They Forsake Their Beds", "Thinking 'Bout You")
B2 ("Bring Another Bottle Baby", "Come On Baby (Shift That Log)", "Crazy", "Editing Floor Blues", "Everytime I Dream", "Gold Digger", "Grandsons", "Home", "I Look, I See", "In the End", "Jesus", "Later", "Majik of Majiks", "Matthew & Son", "Moonstone", "Oh Very Young", "Portobello Road", "Rubylove", "Welcome Home", "You Can Do (Whatever)!")
B♭2 ("Big Boss Man", "If I Laugh", "If You Ask Me", "I See a Road", "Katmandu", "The Laughing Apple", "Opening", "Read", "Rabbi Ya Rahman", "Salli 'Ala Muhammed")
A2 ("100 I Dream", "All of the Prophets", "Banapple Gas", "Blackness of the Night", "Bonfire", "Crazy", "The Devil Came From Kansas", "Doors", "Grandsons", "Granny", "Heart of a Muslim", "Heaven / Where True Love Goes", "How Can I Tell You", "Hummingbird", "I Love Them All", "I'm Gonna Be King", "Into White", "The Little Ones", "Maybe There's a World", "Midday (Avoid City After Dark)", "Morning Has Broken", "O' Caritas", "One Day at a Time", "Pop Star", "Portobello Road", "See What Love Did to Me", "Sitting")
G♯2 ("If You Ask Me", "Mary and the Little Lamb", "Monad's Anthem")
G2 ("All Kinds of Roses", "Big Boss Man", "The Boy With a Moon and Star On His Head", "Changes IV", "Don't Blame Them", "Father and Son", "Fill My Eyes", "Green Fields, Golden Sands", "Hard Headed Woman", "Hummingbird", "I'm So Sleepy", "I Was Raised in Babylon", "Longer Boats", "Maybe You're Right", "Miles From Nowhere", "Mona Bone Jakon", "On the Road to Find Out", "Peace Train", "Ruins", "Tea For the Tillerman", "This Glass World", "To Be What You Must", "Where Do the Children Play?", "Wild World", "The Wind")
F♯2 ("Editing Floor Blues", "Father and Son" Tea For the Tillerman 2, "Kitty", "Sun/C79")
F2 ("Doors", "Jzero")
E2 ("All of the Prophets", "Cat and the Dog Trap", "Into White", "Lady", "Novim's Nightmare", "Oh Very Young", "Pop Star", "See What Love Did to Me")
E♭2 ("All of the Prophets", "Rabbi Ya Rahman", "Tala'a Al-Badru 'Alayna")
D2 ("100 I Dream", "The Boy With a Moon and Star On His Head", "Daytime", "Heaven / Where True Love Goes", "Longer Boats" Tea For the Tillerman 2, "Moonshadow", "Where Do the Children Play?")
C♯2 ("I Think I See the Light")
C2 ("Mona Bone Jakon", "Northern Wind (Death of Billy the Kid)")
B♭1 ("Northern Wind (Death of Billy the Kid)")

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{Questionable Notes}G5 ("Changes IV" [1])
D5 ("How Can I Tell You" [2])
A4 ("Northern Wind" [2])
G4 ("Ramadan Moon" [2])
F♯4 ("Can't Keep it in" [1], "Longer Boats" Tea For the Tillerman 2 [5])

B2 ("18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmare)" [1])
A2 ("I See a Road" [3], "Ready" [1])
G♯2 ("How Can I Tell You" [1], "Trouble" [1])
G2 ("Dying to Live" [1], "Midday (Avoid City After Dark)" [1], "Tell 'Em I'm Gone" [2])
F♯2 ("Mary and the Little Lamb" [1])
F2 ("The Beloved" [1], "Changes IV" [4], "Never" [1], "Thinking 'Bout You" [1])
E2 ("Moonstone" [5], "One Day at a Time" [1])
E♭2 ("Muhammad Al Mustafa" [4], "Sovereignty" [1])
D2 ("Come On Baby (Shift That Log)" [1], "Ramadan Moon" [2])
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[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.

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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.

[fallenalien]

Looks like he's pretty much the anti Bruce Springsteen vocalwise.

Voice that appears light, but is stronger in the lower rather than the upper register.

[Ian]

Great thread! That Bb1 is awesome.