Hope Sandoval (3,122 views)

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Hope Sandoval (24 June 1966)
Member of: Mazzy Star (1989...), Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions (2000...)
Vocal Range: D3 - D5

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{Synopsis}One of the original range conservatives in what we now know as the indie gospel, Hope Sandoval's intangible image has always been complemented by her resigned vocal delivery and seemingly intentional insistence on using as few notes in her vocal melodies as possible. Having started in the marginally edgier outfit Opal, Hope would only truly be discovered in the band's later reformation as Mazzy Star -- an outfit combining the serene poetry of The Doors with the misanthropy of The Velvet Underground, for which Hope's soothing, yet profoundly wistful, vocal inflections were the perfect vehicle. Because of her extreme introversion, Hope remains somewhat of a mystery to fans and indie adherents alike; an aesthetic that's since become a bit of a pastiche for artists in her lineage of dream pop who prefer to remain 'mysterious' to the outside world. In Hope's case, however, the music always speaks for itself and will assuredly keep Hope's legacy as among music's more grounded talents, providing a healthy contrast to the exhausting larger-than-life personalities dominating the social capital of the industry presently.

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{Vocal Range Timeline}Mazzy Star:
She Hangs Brightly (1990): F♯3 - A4
So Tonight That I Might See (1993): F♯3 - F♯4
Among My Swan (1996): F3 - A4
Seasons of Your Day (2013): F♯3 - G♯4

Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions:
Bavarian Fruit Bread (2001): G3 - G4
Through the Devil Softly (2009): E3 - D5
Until the Hunter (2016): E3 - D5

Significant High Notes:

D5 ("Blue Bird", "Into the Trees")
B4 ("The Hiking Song", "Let Me Get There", "The Peasant", "Soon Be Home" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "That Spider")
B♭4 ("Indian Summer" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "Salt of the Sea")
A4 ("Blue Flower", "The Buffalo", "Candle" live Woody's, New York 9 August 1990, "Dying", "Into the Trees", "Killing Moon" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "Look on Down from the Bridge", "The Peasant", "Revolution" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "Rocket Machine" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "Salt of the Sea", "Scarecrow", "Silver and Gold" live El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles 14 August 2002, "That Spider", "Trouble")
G♯4 ("Flying Low", "For the Rest of Your Life", "Leaving on a Train" live The Mint, Los Angeles 23 March 1997, "Liquid Lady", "Louise" live El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles 14 August 2002, "Ride It On")
G4 ("Around My Smile", "Blanchard", "Charlotte", "Come Down", "Common Burn", "Courting Blues" live Bush Hall, London 24 May 2010, "Cry, Cry", "A Falling Star" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "Four Walls", "Give You My Lovin'", "Halah", "The Hiking Song", "Pinch" live Zebulon Cafe, Los Angeles 15 November 2017, "Play With Fire" live El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles 14 August 2002, "Real Wild Child" live Harpo's Cabaret, Victoria 14 December 1987, "Suzanne", "When You Were Young" live Woody's, New York 9 August 1990, "A Wonderful Seed")
F♯4 ("Always Late" live Zebulon Cafe, Los Angeles 15 November 2017, "Big Boss Man", "The Buffalo", "Ghost Highway", "Golden Hair" live Bush Hall, London 24 May 2010, "Heroin" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "I Took a Slip", "I'm Sailin'", "Lady Jessica and Sam", "Let Me Get There", "Louise" live El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles 14 August 2002, "Mona" live The Mint, Los Angeles 23 March 1997, "Rock Section" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "Satellite", "Sparrow", "Suddenly Beside You", "The Spoils", "Take Everything", "Trouble", "Unreflected", "Where Did You Run To?")

Significant Low Notes:

A3 ("All This Remains", "All Your Sisters", "Be My Angel", "Blue Flower", "Candle" live Woody's, New York 9 August 1990, "Come Down", "Dying", "Eyes Closed" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "Ghost Highway", "Golden Hair" live Bush Hall, London 24 May 2010, "Hair & Skin" live Black Session, Paris 26 October 1993, "Heroin" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "The Hiking Song", "Into Dust", "Isn't It True", "Killing Moon" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "Lady Jessica and Sam", "Look on Down from the Bridge", "Love", "Magick Power" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "On the Low", "The Peasant", "Revolution" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "Rock Section" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "Rocket Machine" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "Salt of the Sea", "Satellite", "Scarecrow", "She Hangs Brightly", "Soul Giver" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "The Spoils", "Still Cold", "That Spider", "Things", "Unreflected", "Where Did You Run To?")
G♯3 ("Before I Sleep", "For the Rest of Your Life", "Happy Nightmare Baby" live Slego, Rimini 26 March 1988, "Free", "Lay Myself Down", "Leaving on a Train" live The Mint, Los Angeles 23 March 1997, "Liquid Lady", "Lose Me on the Way", "Primitive" live Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia 18 October 2017, "Ride It On", "She's in the Wall", "So Tonight That I Might See", "Still", "There's a Willow")
G3 ("Around My Smile", "Bells Ring", "Big Boss Man", "Blanchard", "Blue Bird", "Butterfly Mornings", "California", "Charlotte", "Clear Day", "Common Burn", "Courting Blues" live Bush Hall, London 24 May 2010, "Cry, Cry", "Day Disguise", "Disappear", "Does Someone Have Your Baby Now?", "Down the Steps", "Drop", "Fall Aside", "Feeling of Gaze", "Five String Serenade", "Flowers in December", "Four Walls", "Give You My Lovin'", "Halah", "Happy","I Thought You'd Fall for Me", "I'm Less Here", "I've Gotta Stop", "In the Kingdom", "Into the Trees", "On the Low", "Paradise Circus", "Play With Fire" live El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles 14 August 2002, "Quiet, the Winter Harbor", "Rhymes of an Hour", "Salt of the Sea", "She's My Baby", "Silver and Gold" live El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles 14 August 2002, "Spoon", "Suddenly Beside You", "Suzanne", "Taste of Blood", "Thinking Like That", "Umbilical", "When You Were Young" live Woody's, New York 9 August 1990, "Wild Roses")
F♯3 ("Always Late" live Zebulon Cafe, Los Angeles 15 November 2017, "Blue Light", "The Buffalo", "Fade Into You", "Flying Low", "Help Yourself", "I Took a Slip", "I'm Sailin'", "Killing Smile", "Let Me Get There", "Louise" live El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles 14 August 2002, "Mary of Silence", "Mona" live The Mint, Los Angeles 23 March 1997, "Not All Our Tears" live Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia 18 October 2017, "Rose Blood", "Seasons of Your Day", "Sparrow", "Take Everything", "Taste of Blood", "Treasure", "Trouble")
F3 ("I've Been Let Down", "Into the Trees", "Liquid Lady", "Sets the Blaze", "Sleep", "Son of a Lady", "That Way Again")
E3 ("Big Boss Man", "Blue Bird", "The Buffalo", "Louise" live El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles 14 August 2002, "The Peasant", "Perfume", "Till I Die", "A Wonderful Seed")
D3 ("Suddenly Beside You", "Till I Die")
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