List of overtone musicians
This is a list of musicians utilizing some form of overtone singing. The groups they work with should be listed after.
Traditional
These are musicians using a traditional method of overtone singing: Overtone singing is from Altaic people(Mongols, tuvans, altays,...). Tuvans are outer uirianhai people of the Mongols.
Mongols and Tuvans
Non-traditional
- Bruno Amstad - jazz vocalist
- Ray Anderson - jazz singer & trombonist
- Theo Bleckmann - featured in composer John Hollenbeck's composition The Music of Life
- Arrington de Dionyso of Old Time Relijun
- Jim Cole & Spectral Voices - mesmerizing overtone music in a water tower
- European Overtone Choir
- Dean Frenkel - author, singer and composer
- Diamanda Galás - Greek-American performance artist and renowned vocalist; when performing an opera by Vinko Globokar she had to produce four tones at once [2]
- Jim Gillette of Nitro
- Baby Gramps - folk musician
- Brian Grover a.k.a. Steppeland Dreaming
- Tran Quang Hai - Vietnamese/French overtone researcher and performer, member of Overtone Music Network
- John Hammink - engineer and singer, has originally used both Sygyt and Kargyraa for testing Skype audio quality, particularly as it relates to telephony hardware
- David Hykes featured overtoning with his score for incarnate Tibetan lama Dzongsar Khyentese's film "Travellers and Magicians", the scores to "The Yatra Trilogy" by John Bush, and film trailer music for "The New World" by Terrence Malick, the first of the "Blade" movies and "X Men: The Last Stand"
- Enver Izmailov throatsings on his album With My Best Wishes
- Elton John produced hundreds of overtones on his 1986 world tour.
- Kiva - Canadian experimental harmonic overtone singer and instructor, jazz/world beat genres, composer for overtone choirs
- Space Mandino - American folk musician
- Marxy experiments with overtone singing on his album Kysoshu Nostalgia
- Bobby McFerrin - jazz vocalist
- Obertonchor Düsseldorf (de:Obertonchor Düsseldorf)
- Aengus Ó Maoláin - Irish singer, both solo and with Anúna and Bulraga, uses both Karygraa and Sygt but mainly Khoomei
- David Lee Roth (formerly of Van Halen) sometimes uses a multi-pitched wail similar to throat singing
- Roswell Rudd - jazz trombonist, features a traditional Mongolian ensemble with a throat sing on his album Blue Mongol
- Wolfgang Saus - German singer
- Juzzie Smith - Australian folk performer
- Braxton Stowe - American musician
- Jimmy Urine of Mindless Self Indulgence
- Blake Weldon - American musician
See also
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