Singing Style
Halford possesses a powerful voice with a large vocal range which was trademarked by his high screams and strong vibrato. In his prime his range has been claimed to be near 6 octaves (including his Head voice) but in recent years, his range has lowered with age but is still close to 4 octaves and can still reach many high notes. However, his lower range has nurtured and become more powerful. Along with Ronnie James Dio and Bruce Dickinson, Halford is one of the pioneers of the operatic vocal style later to be adopted by power metal vocalists and regularly appears near the top in lists of the greatest rock vocalists/front-men of all time. Halford says that his style was influenced primarily by Arthur Brown, Janis Joplin, Lemmy, Robert Plant, David Bowie, Roger Daltrey (The Who), Freddie Mercury, Peter Hammill (Van der Graaf Generator), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) and Ian Gillan (Deep Purple).
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