Amber Riley - Vocal Profile/ Range

Amber Riley

Vocal Type: Light Lyric Soprano
Vocal Range: 2 Octaves 3 notes and a semitone F3-C6
Whistle Register: No
Vocal Pluses: Amber's main vocal strengths comes from her extensive chest register. It has power and great dynamics combined with a light and bright quality. Amber appears to have a good technique, mixing her voice well on the higher notes to avoid undue strain on the vocal chords. This allows her the impressive feat of being able to ascend to a C6 in what sounds like the chest register alone.
Vocal Negatives: Voice lacks agility, so vocal runs can sound clumsy and a little laboured. The voice also struggles with the lower notes and has an immature, childlike colouring to it at times.

Audio Clips:

Low notes:
F#3:

G3:

Chest Register:
Eb5:

A5:

C6:

Head voice:
G#5

Click this link to read Lea Michele's- AKA Rachel from Glee- vocal profile and see how they compare.

Amber Riley Covers Adele's "Someone Like you"

As Adele's popularity soars worldwide its unsurprising  singers have been clambering to cover the vocalist's classy tunes to show their respect. John Legend gave us his, not so great, cover of Rolling in the deep a few weeks back and now Glee's Amber Riley gives it a try by covering the already classic Someone like you. 

Amber's voice doesn't have the full bodied tone, or maturity of Adele's voice, and as such it doesn't carry the weight of the song as effectively. However, it's still a good, if lighter, cover that deserves praise for being in tune and better than John Legend's attempt. I'm sure it won't be too long now before Ms Riley is giving us a mastered version of an Adele's song- via the Glee series- for us to give a proper assessment of her voice.

Thoughts?