falsetto

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Singing in a delicate falsetto, his voice conveys some of the frailty of age, lending the song a powerful emotional punch.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

A bit of tinkering – stripping the original’s heavy bassline, tossing in his lithe falsetto and a playful guitar to hold everything aloft – made the one-time throwaway into something immortal.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026

As it unfolds, Mr. Ellis’s voice effortlessly slides between registers, conveying shifts in emphasis by judicious use of falsetto, which is often layered via multitrack.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

His falsetto found new registers of rapture and longing.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

Harroway cleared his throat, made a bad start in falsetto, and began again, angrily, “Look here, Mr. Byerley, our special instructions were to search the house very thoroughly.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov