Without surgery, can you sing in a female voice?
Two threads down from yours
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,206640.0.html
Dena, but that thread is asking about singing after voice surgery, I am asking about singing without any voice surgery at all, just voice training.
If you read the thread the reason she is asking about voice surgery is because of the limitations of her current voice. If you have the same range limitations, your question and treatments are covered in the discussion. If you don't have the limitations in your present voice, you don't need to ask the question.
Some males voices never break and they can cover a 4 octave range. They can sing in both male and female ranges without difficulty. Unless you provide more information about your present voice, it's impossible to intelligently respond to your question other than to show you the questions you should be asking of yourself.
Its individual of course, but in principle its possible. There are some really amazing videos on youtube of men singing in a female voice for show. There seem to be two main parameters in singing, since the melody and such is given: pitch and resonance. Pitch ranges vary individually but a lot of it is about training. Many male voices can go very high in pitch in falsetto and with proper resonance and turning the falsetto into head voice it can go even higher. If resonance is female by training, you can have it.
My voice range before the surgery was A2 to G5 - this meant the extreme notes I could get, I could not sing in those though, but I would have needed sing training to sing anyways, so I imagine I could have used a big part of that as singing voice if I was a singer. G5 is just 3 notes away from the high C, which a lot of women cannot produce.
Surgery actually can often decrease that voice range and also the upper limit, because it does some small damage in any case and you need the best voice use to get into these upper notes.
Plus the main thing is female resonance - if you get female resonance, you can also sing in an alto range (does not have always to be soprano!) and have a great voice for singing Jazz, Folk, Blues or Rock.
I can sing very easily in a female voice. I'm a crap singer and couldn't stay on key if my life depended on it, but my voice does sound feminine when I sing.
No, I've never had surgery. I alter my voice.
This is something I've worked on a lot. I have an article about it at http://www.kjkmusic.co.uk/2016/03/13/changing-your-voice-part-6-cross-gender-vocal-techniques/ and have posted on the subject on this forum (not sure how to link posts from Tapatalk so I'll try and link later from my pooter). Please let me know if any of this is useful as I hope to develop the theory and technique into something more comprehensive in future.
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I can, although I have no idea whether anyone else can. :) I never considered surgery (I don't want to risk the voice I have), and I was a good singer before; with years of training, I can sing quite nicely as a high alto, although I don't have quite the power or projection I did when I could fully use my chest voice.
ANJAQ AND SUZIFROMMD, I haven't heard from the two of you in ages! Thank you to you and everyone else.