Majida El Roumi - Voice Characteristics

Voice Characteristics

Majida’s first singing coach was her father, who followed her talent from her childhood and trained her on oriental singing and improving her vocals. Later she was influenced by many artists such as Fairuz and Umm Kulthum.

She is known for her wide vocal range. It includes the Soprano range as it extends from the low E3 to the high C#6, meaning 2.9 octaves. Majida also sang the Lyric soprano style in “Cithare Du Ciel” album in 2003: she focused on opera techniques with ease in vibrato and high notes (As one can hear in her French version of "Miserere mei, Deus" (Have Mercy On Me, O God) where she hits a high G#5).

Majida’s voice is powerful, also agile, she usually sang with chest register but most of her songs include operatic parts where she shows real abilities in head voice. She is also from the rare artists who ever excelled in singing both western and oriental songs (Tarab) as well as the classical techniques.

As good as she sings in western, she perfected singing hard oriental melodies and Arabian maqams (most famous for all of her father’s muwashshahat, most of her oldies and lately in Ghazal album in Claude Chalhoub’s music) and she is able to sing hard melismas (Ex: In “Al Jarida” and “Al Hobb Wal Wafaa”)