soul singing
Emotional Black music
Soul singing is a style of vocal performance rooted in African American gospel and rhythm and blues traditions, characterized by emotional intensity, improvisation, and techniques like melisma, vocal runs, and raw expressiveness.
The style emphasizes feeling over technical precision, conveying deep emotion through the voice: Her soul singing brought the audience to tears.
Soul singers often bend notes, ad-lib, and build to passionate crescendos.
- gospelSacred choral tradition
- church choirCongregational singing group
- call and responseAlternating vocal pattern
- MotownDetroit's soulful moniker
- R&BSoulful pop genre
belting · vocal runs · passion · church · Aretha · testify · grit · raspy · vocal · heartfelt · fervor · groove · choir · emotion · melisma · torch · wailing · funk
- joy expressionsjoy, happiness, delight, glee, mirth
- vocal techniquebreath control, diaphragm, chest voice, head voice, falsetto
soul singingopera
Theatrical art combining song
bel canto · coloratura · choral singing · crooning · art song
soul, singing, souls, soulful, soulfully, soulless, soullessness, sing, sings