falsetto

“Jealous Lover” is a spacious, soul-inflected number in the vein of “Beast of Burden” that allows Mr. Jagger to indulge his Curtis Mayfield-style falsetto.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

“Slap the City” clatters and coos with R&B falsetto and at least makes the blank nihilism of Drake’s dating life feel self-aware.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

On “All Them Horses” Mr. Kahan ably channels Mr. Vernon’s falsetto howl on a song that uses a flood as a metaphor for personal transformation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

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

She walked on, and a falsetto followed her—“Oh, Aron, I do love you so.”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Somewhat obscured at the time by the hairy chests and falsettos of their disco peak was the enduring brilliance of Gibb’s songwriting.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2023

The angelic falsettos of The Bee Gees – brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb – give us and the song a lift — especially when the word "Alive" is stretched out enough to touch Heaven.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2022

Sasfy added, “The style is clear — male passion and pain made real by exaggerated timing, breathless gasps, resounding basso profundo, swooping falsettos and nervous yelps.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2022

He began yowling along, tacking his versions of Jackson’s famous grunts and falsettos into the space between each phrase: “If they say why, why, tell ’em that it’s human nature!

From The New Yorker ● May 6, 2019

With downcast head, the mutilated wretch—for he was one of those maimed from their youth to sing falsettos in the choir of St. Peter—pondered how to act.

From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Garibaldi, Giuseppe