Category:People with absolute pitch

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A list of people who possess Absolute pitch, also known as perfect pitch.

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• Bill Bailey: "Perfect pitch, or absolute pitch as it's sometimes called, occurs entirely at random in about one in every 10,000 of us, and I'm one of them" [1]
• Michelle Branch: "Like Yanni and Paul Shaffer, she possesses the rare trait known as absolute pitch." [2]
• Mariah Carey: "Luckily, she discovered the art of singing and had a natural talent for it. Having perfect pitch, she could sing back exactly what she heard at the age of four." [3]
• Ray Charles: Had perfect pitch according to the American Masters series on his life on PBS.
• Marc-Andre Hamelin: "Having perfect pitch helps," he said. "Automatically, you have a better musical brain."" [4]
• Taylor Hicks: "I would find...the key that an airplane flying overhead was in or the sound of a running car...I would start playing off different sounds that I heard around my house and repeat solos that I heard on a record or the radio without practicing them." [5]
• Michael Jackson: "Born With It: . . . Michael Jackson . . ." [6]
• Alexa Ray Joel: "She had perfect pitch as a baby." (Billy Joel) [7]
• Shakira: "Her perfect pitch and complete focus allow her to ensure that she and her musicians get every note exactly right." [8]
• Nicolas Slonimsky: "It was discovered early in my life that I possessed the precious gift of perfect pitch...". Slonimsky: Perfect Pitch, an Autobiography (2002), p.4. ISBN 0825672740.
• Joseph Stalin: "Music of all sorts mattered to him; he had perfect pitch..." [9]
• Scott Storch: "'[Scott] is one of the few people I've run across in the world who has perfect pitch,' Wayne the Brain [Storch's engineer] says." [10]
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: "The boy showed the perfect pitch and remarkable musical memory." [11]