Does the size of your body corrolate with the size of your voice?

Question

My voice teacher always tells me that my voice is a lot bigger than my body. I have taken voice for about 6 months and was just wondering if there is a corrolation.

Answer 1

I believe that your voice teacher was giving you a compliment.

That for a small person you have a "big" voice or rather a mature sound.

Simply a compliment.

Many people don't recognize that I am merely 5'2 because I have a strong personality that makes me seem taller than I am.

Odd huh?

Answer 2

the latest scientific findings by Dr. I.R. Titze and Dr. Johan Sundberg demonstrate that it is the length between the vocal cords and the lips, which they call the "vocal tract length" that makes the difference.
A small person can thus have a proportionately long VTL, and thus a deeper voice than a taller person with a proportionately shorter VTL.
This has more to do with potential voice category than size,per se. A person with a bigger voice has a better grasp of breath support, since volume is a function of breath management.
If your teacher is a member of NATS, s/he will know of these authors below. If not, they are all available at your favorite on-line book store, and worth the reading time.
Best wishes and keep on singing

Answer 3

Not really at all. Now some bigger people may be born with big voices, but anybody can train their voices to be louder, no matter what size. I know a girl on the bigger side in my choir who you can't hear at all. I know another girl in my choir who is smaller and sings the loudest of the whole choir. I sing actually pretty darn loud, and i'm a frikin twig, man!!

Answer 4

Well, you can look at it in different ways... Personally, I think that it does not. Look at Christina Aguilera for example. She is so tiny but her voice has a huge body to it. On the other hand, scientifically it would make sense that people greater in size would have bigger voices because of the bigger physical space that your voice has available for amplification...
Just sing your heart out!

Answer 5

I highly doubt it. I myself can overpower my choir of eighty people with barely any effort, and they're all good singers. I'm also a pretty little person. There are people smaller even than me who have become some of the best new opera singers and pop singers in the world. What really matters is your lung capacity, and the efficiency at which you use your abdominal muscles/diaphragm. Vocal cord strength (ability to stretch) is also a huge factor in this.

Answer 6

No way! Look at how tiny Christina Aguielera is!

However, your ethnicity actually affects the tone and most of all, the endurance of your voice. There are exceptions to the rules of course, but out of all other ethnicities, black people tend to have a higher vocal endurance, which is why many blacks can belt their lungs out without any kind of vocal training, but not have to worry about straining themselves.

Luckies... *shakes fist*

Answer 7

No it has no connection at all, actually. Some opera singers have huge voices and are also huge themselves (Pavarotti, for example), but in pop music some of the smaller women have massive powerful voices, like Whitney Houston and Faith Hill.

Answer 8

Ive taken voice for 3years at converse college at im really small for my age and my teacher Brandi Icard has always told me she hates when ppl say "Im surprised that a big voice came out of a small body" because its not true you can be really big and hve a small voice...its all how you use it, Im a big opera freak im top soprano i get a lot of solos so...hope it helps

Answer 9

ive found that the only link between the two is "short man syndrome", which consists of a person who is small in stature being unreasonably aggressive to attempt to compensate for it. this may include being unreasonably loud.

Answer 10

Not for Mike Tyson