Belinda-Lee Reid (1,850 views)

[motorist]

Belinda-Lee Reid (24 March 1982 - )
Years Active: 1997?-2007
Voice Type: Beauty Queen Belter
Associated Acts: Lash (formed as Exteria; 1997?-2003), The Silver Scene (began as a solo project; 2004-2007)
Recorded Vocal Range: F♯3 - D7

High notes:
D7 ("Sorry Dancing"*)
A6 ("On A High")
E6 ("Sorry Dancing")
E5 ("Candy", "Dumb", "Dumb Things", "Live or Lie", "On A High", "Sorry Dancing")
E♭5 ("Caged My Soul", "Dirty Shine")
D5 ("Candy", "Children Of The Revolution", "Dirty Shine", "In My Head", "Only to Heal", "Tonight")
C♯5 ("Better Than You", "Caged My Soul", "Do It", "Do You Feel Loved" singing on Tiktok 2024, "She's Good And He Knows It", "Sleep Away Your Dreams")
C5 ("Breeding Time", "Candy", "Dirty Shine", "Dumb Things")
B4 ("Beauty Queen", "Creep" singing on Tiktok 2024, "Don't Ever Make My Mind Up", "Do You Feel Loved" singing on Tiktok 2024, "Dumb", "On A High", "Only to Heal", "Sleep Away Your Dreams", "Take Me Away")
B♭4 ("All I Have to Do Is Dream" singing on Tiktok 2024, "Better Than You", "In My Head", "She Loves You", "Take Me Away")
A4 ("Beauty Queen", "Do It", "Do You Feel Loved" singing on Tiktok 2024, "Dumb Things", "Live or Lie"/"Live or Lie", "Sleep Away Your Dreams", "Take Me Away")
G♯4 ("Breeding Time", Singing in "The Hit Game" 2005 Documentary, "Take Me Away")

Low notes:
B3 ("Beauty Queen", "Candy", "Creep" singing on Tiktok 2024, "Do You Feel Loved" singing on Tiktok 2024, "On A High", "She Loves You")
B♭3 ("Sorry Dancing")
A3 ("Beauty Queen", "Dirty Shine", "Do You Feel Loved" singing on Tiktok 2024, "Live or Lie", "She Loves You", "Sleep Away Your Dreams", "Tonight")
G♯3 ("Candy", "In My Head", Singing in "The Hit Game" 2005 Documentary)
G3 ("All I Have to Do Is Dream" singing on Tiktok 2024, "Caged My Soul", "She's Good And He Knows It", "Sleep Away Your Dreams")
F♯3 ("She Loves You")

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{Questionable Notes}
C6 ("Beauty Queen" live Sydney 2001 ^[1], "Sorry Dancing" ^[5])
A5 ("Dirty Shine" ^[1])
F♯5 ("Beauty Queen"/"Beauty Queen" live Melbourne 2001 ^[1])
E5 ("Beauty Queen" live Sydney 2001 ^[1])

G3 ("Sorry Dancing" ^[3])
E3 ("She Loves You" ^{not sure if this passage reaches this pitch}, "She's Good And He Knows It" ^[1])
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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 may have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range in ways other than the above criteria.

*This is the hidden track that plays after "Only to Heal", I'm unsure of the name.
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Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the mix.
Blue marks falsetto notes.
Green marks harsh, distorted notes.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes considered to be notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.

Summary:
Belinda-Lee Reid is an Australian singer and guitarist. She was the co-lead vocalist and the longest-serving rhythm guitarist for the rock band Lash. The band released their only album The Beautiful and the Damned in 2002. A cover of Lash's first single "Take Me Away" with Christina Vidal on vocals, originally sung by vocalist/bassist Micaela Slayford, was featured on and put onto the soundtrack of the highly successful movie "Freaky Friday" featuring Lindsay Lohan and Jaime Lee Curtis in 2003. Belinda-Lee sang lead vocals on the band's second single, "Beauty Queen", which was also put onto the "Freaky Friday" soundtrack. The band broke up later that year. Belinda-Lee later went on to release a self-titled EP with the band "The Silver Scene", which unfortunately did not gain widespread appeal.

Belinda-Lee's voice has a distinct distorted tone that is noticeable across all parts of her range. Both ends of her range are quite well-refined, with many strong upper 3rd octave and lower 5th octave melody lines, though range-wise she has a conservative style, focusing more on maintaining said timbre. She avoids singing in the upper 5th octave despite her high placement, but does often belt with extreme strength and stability in the upper 4th and lower 5th octaves, mostly in the The Beautiful and the Damned album, in songs such as "Caged My Soul" and "Dumb". She uses her low range on many songs as well, most notably in her work in The Silver Scene, singing briefly yet steadily down to the mid to upper 3rd octave on songs such as "She Loves You" and "Tonight". Along with her varied musical styles, Belinda's harsh high-placed multi-layered vocals help her music stand out from others, whether it's backing or co-leading the lower-placed Micaela Slayford or singing lead or backing herself on her own songs.

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{Album Ranges}Lash:
The Beautiful and the Damned (2002): G3 - E5 - E6 - D7

The Silver Scene:
The Silver Scene (EP) (2006): F♯3 - G3 - E5

High/low/live notes are linked in this thread, just hover over the song names and you can click the links

[Electric Mami]

I'm still really not convinced about the E3's existence, perhaps we could get more opinions? I know amadeus hears it, and Baronessa told me she doesn't think it's a voice nor that there's an E3 where it's indicated in the video

[motorist]

Jun 17, 2024 16:37:33 GMT Electric Mami said:

I'm still really not convinced about the E3's existence, perhaps we could get more opinions? I know amadeus hears it, and Baronessa told me she doesn't think it's a voice nor that there's an E3 where it's indicated in the video

Here's better quality audio from where the E3 is supposedly:
shelovesyouclip.mp3 (141.66 KB)

Amadeusd only heard the E3 when I showed him this audio, the previous audio was just a browser recording.

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{If you need a youtube link to be able to slow down the clip, the audio quality here should be better too, but that may have been diminished by the editing software.}

[Electric Mami]

Listening back to it and amadeus' isolated vocals bit, I actually hear it B4 A4 G4 B3 (not sure about the B3, its source is dubious) G4 - B3 C4, so there'd be G4 where the E3 supposedly is, but I'm struggling to properly hear a lower third octave harmony. It doesn't descend to E at least