A history of falsetto is one way to trace the continuing evolution of popular music. It’s been there from the start. Listen to The Ink Spots, one of the first doo-wop groups, and to Bill Kenny’s …

The falsetto register is used by male countertenors to sing in the alto and occasionally the soprano range and was the standard before women sang in choirs. Falsetto is occasionally …

In choirs of men and boys, especially in England, there is a long uninterrupted tradition of adult male altos singing falsetto.

He rose to international fame as a co-founder of the Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful and influential groups in music history. Known for his distinctive falsetto voice, Gibb …

Concerning the exclusive, or nearly exclusive, use of the male falsetto by a “whole” man, we find in these descriptions of singers rumblings of gendered disapproval, of a fear of …

Jun 18, 2025 · Explore the historical development of falsetto singing across various musical genres and eras, from early classical to modern contemporary music.

This is my personal "top ten" list of the greatest male falsetto singers, both groups and individuals. After the rankings and capsules I have a FALSETTO TIMELINE that traces the evolution of …

Oct 16, 2019 · Estelle Caswell, who makes the Emmy-winning Earworm series for Vox, decided to find out, and she stops by to share results from her painstaking study of male falsetto in pop …

The male head voice serves as an alternative to the chest voice and grants ‘female’ characteristics to male vocals. Interprets like Berry Gibb (Saturday Night Fever; 1977), Phillip …

Abstract. The male falsetto enjoyed a brief period of acceptance, even adulation, as it was wielded by tenors such as John Braham and Giovanni Rubini in the first four decades of the …