Elsa wrote:
>has any of them had any kind of surgery, hormonal defect (I know > about some of these already) or anything else which would have caused them to able to sing in > the higher registers ? My friend, Peter Giles, is an authority on the various types of > countertenor voice, so I am well-informed in that field, too.
I can reach soprano-like notes with a soprano-like timbre in an elusive register. It's surely a falsetto, but I feel it and I hear it as a different kind of falsetto: I feel it both in the back of my head and out nof my mouth at the same time. My 'normal falsetto' has a typical falsetto timbre and I feel it more in the top of my head. So far, I haven't felt it in a womb, so I think it's not a hormonal thing :-)
Background: when I was a kid I looked like an Italian version of the Hansons' youngest brother ( You know, that little girl who's actually a boy ). When we visited some relatives in the countryside who we hand't seen for a long time, they sometimes came up with this, when talking to my parents: "But didn't you have 3 boys and only one girl?!" The situation was always embarassing to me, and as a sequel I have become a travesti ( This sequel thing is obviously a joke, but not that embarassing question ).
Nowadays, I have a male look and don't get dolls and dresses for birthday from my beloved aunts anymore( another joke... but I still get lipsticks :-) ). I'm muscular ( a real stud... "I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my ... "), and it's very easy for me to grow muscles ( without any 'chemical help', so I must have enough testosterone available ) but neither me nor a brother of mine grow a long beard. According to my ENT's videtaped laryngoscopy, my larynx is between the average size of that of a man and of a woman and without much mucosa,w hat would explain how easily it is for me to sing in a higher pitch and lighter timbre, while I .... up my voice when I try to sing Metallica with that 'I'm-really-mad' voice.
Hope that helped you in a way,
Bye,
Caio Rossi
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