Mariah Carey - TOP 5 Polyphonic Whistles

[@peterjonesdelacruz]

It's called diplophonia. The nodules on her vocal cords sometimes cause them to make two pitches at the same time.

[@joshuajackson4742]

it's not her nodules. It's the way whistle tone is produced. I have no nodules and sometimes when I whistle two notes come out.

[@hyun808]

Yeh its normal, usually you gotta do lip/tongue rolls to help with it.

[@brandonh7965]

I do not have nodules, and in head voice I can make polyphonic voice, Its like whistle and head voice

[@angelonaro1354]

Loan H do u have swollen tonsils cause I ahve raspy whistles and head voice sometimes with red tonsils and sometimes it can be caused by nodules

[@angelonaro1354]

Joshua Hoy ya but it can be caused by nodules

[@patricktilsley9164]

1:46 - 1:54 is the greatest Miriah Carey whistle I have ever heard!! I can’t hear enough of it!!

[@曾小新-s5d]

The light helps that

[@bukolaikengboju8587]

*mariah

[@jerricarey]

It’s so effortless. She approaches the note perfectly and it shows in the tone.

[@Wtfqayyam]

Its head voice

[@me.iammariah9051]

@@Wtfqayyam it's whistle

[@popland1977]

As Patti Labelle refers to her, the eight wonder of the world

[@kaymills2564]

Boo thas Whitney Houston 😂😂😂lmao

[@kaymills2564]

Oh Bitchyoumad ask Mariah Carey,she's going to say "child where have u been hiding this whole time"

[@kaymills2564]

Oh Bitchyoumad did u even pass kindergarten girl looks like u don't even know how to spell..

[@MioneRubinia]

Sav! Lool

[@purpleteardropss]

Inia k. This time she wouldn't say "I don't know her" lmao

[@Eddierockification]

I love that sigh of relief she has whenever she knows what came out of her mouth is gold. We stan an inconsistent queen.

[@MC-wd7jc]

She can be polyphonic in belts and falsetto too

[@winxnights5281]

Falsetto yes, but belts 😶🤨🤔

[@MC-wd7jc]

WinxNights she’s done it before and she wasn’t lipping.

[@winxnights5281]

@@MC-wd7jc link ??

[@MC-wd7jc]

Lilian Wildt yeah same but she wasn’t.

[@MC-wd7jc]

WinxNights idk I forgot it

[@joelparkinson3562]

the infinity note intrigues me SO much, for the fact that the polyphonic note began at an Eb6 and transitioned to fifth octave notes, while the C#6 didn't waver in pitch at all

[@VOM27]

Is the rasp that is in her head voice.

[@hearsay516]

It wasn't really a whistle there. It was more of a falsetto

[@divo9455]

if you listen to butterfly acappella theres some really really nice polyphonic whistles

[@justinjordan6502]

2:14 The background singers were nodding

[@kennethsoshi03]

In her concert in Manila that was her biggest concert in CB tour. :)

[@rawr3122]

There are many filipino lambs.

[@trishaestanislao5153]

+Andrey Baldove including me!

[@higorvinicius7570]

✋

[@rafaeldomingo2230]

Shocking, cause that clip was the quietest of all clips

[@SmnSctt27]

@@rafaeldomingo2230 because it was an open venue dumbass 30, 000 attended the concert.

[@MdnightWnd]

I swear, around 0:48-0:49 seconds she sounded JUST like Christina Aguilera.

[@MartyMusic777]

That is an amazing catch - thank you!

[@jacques2007smith]

Or Christina sounds like her! :-O

[@axlsister5378]

HAHAHAHA Yeah

[@3daysbeforerebirth387]

IKR!! raspy as fuck!! RASPY-RIAH

[@parksantiago3511]

Melodica Gosh, You're so right

[@SnSCandy]

ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS IN THE ARNESIO HALL VIDEO SINGING "CAN'T LET GO!" Mariah is always beautiful but she is STUNNING in that particular performance

[@alexcal24]

Yes, polyphonic whistles aside, can we give a shout out to Trey and the two girls behind Mariah in 2:15 who looked SO FUCKING PROUD of her? Supporting her voice and her! Good for them

[@lambily7464]

OMG just noticed!!

[@queenofsnakescorneliastree5770]

is that really trey? He's been with Mariah since like forever 😭

[@joshuavidad6025]

Her belt on 0:48 sounds like her current tone. I love raspiness. 😍😍😍

[@AchillesandArtemis]

listen to the acapella version of butterfly it also happened on her falsetto ad libs in the second chorus in a very clear way

[@polobaluyut6816]

I thought I was the only one to hear those tiny whistles.

[@AchillesandArtemis]

+Polo Baluyut its there hahaha

[@polobaluyut6816]

Amit Agmon whispering stresses vocal chords so I guess it just happens because of how hard it is to her nodules.

[@AchillesandArtemis]

+Polo Baluyut yea but she was still very fluid with her whispers, altho it always seemed like she was more comfortable when she started belting the the bridge, on her performances

[@duythanhish]

+Amit Agmon could I have the link?

[@lichyyyyy]

I have an obsession with these, idk, they sound do weird that I like them Btw: I never could hear the D7 in ISB, I only hear two D6s :/

[@ryanguevera6456]

I like the first one though!!!

[@CloroxBleach-hx9qp]

Neither can I. I also only hear 2 D6s!

[@lichyyyyy]

Clorox Bleach I remember watching a range video and the audio was kinda filtered, so I did hear a 7th octave note. But it was only that time. In other videos, I only hear D6s

[@CloroxBleach-hx9qp]

+Lichy Guevara I have always been hearing a D6

[@ryanguevera6456]

Clorox Bleach same

[@alexandreluizalves]

She is out of this world

[@Chimmmchak]

She is still legend

[@rowrrawr6877]

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[@baglady2652]

This right here called DOLPHINphonic

[@fireninja9742]

Woah. number two switches from a whistle to what sounds like belting. That is sooo cool

[@fireninja9742]

You can hear vibrato when it changes

[@jakeyjakes_]

I don't think it's a whistle. It's a dry and damaged head voice.

[@mael9186]

So she has tried every register 🙌👏😍

[@onedollarbleach6891]

Yyyyaaasssss! I live for polyphonics!

[@aahronvergin9574]

2:11 she got her whistles back. I knew she had it in her :) #Mariah

[@xcaert7822]

Its high falsetto

[@autocorrect6113]

@@xcaert7822 head voice her falsetto sounds different

[@zentryii]

@@autocorrect6113 Falsetto is a lighter more air'y version of head voice.

[@chepealvsantiago226]

❤❤❤ leyenda absolutamente Leyendary

[@Danlovar]

2:14 That black guy from the center-right side covering his ear LOOOOOOOOL

[@dannilobo5744]

Whistle Queen 👑 Mariah Carey ❤❤❤

[@LiftingTuneMelody]

what in the world!? that number 3 is so perfect. i'm shocked!!!!!!

[@DD__suggestions]

..This is how I imagine my shower performance going.

[@leeminhoe8037]

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[@janeskei676]

I like everything about her performances.......just thrilling!!!!!!!!!

[@ayeshas5823]

*SOOO BEAUTIFUL! My Queen of WHISTLES!!!! Yasssss, Queen Mariah!* ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ ILYSM Queen Mariah!❤️

[@josephustitusflavius1372]

I can hear a D5/Eb5 also in the last part in VOL Manila tour. It's clearly not just an octave unison of Bb5/6 note. There's a different note that tries to harmonize with the main key note.

[@susanafelices6410]

MY HEART HEAVEN DIMENSION ANGELSS

[@dionhnegronoodle123]

to me it was a little hard to hear the other notes on top of the whistle notes

[@elitelokkz]

Dion Howard her Lailah Hathaway does a clearer poly note... one similar to how clearly you can hear it in the last clip.

[@teammmx]

King AndMoreKing - But Laila can deliberately harmonize with herself

[@KaentukiTheFuki]

Its hard to the untrained ear. As a singer myself its easy to here those subtle chsnges

[@Jenseduca]

@@elitelokkz Its quite the opposite to me, I dont hear Lailah Hathaway doing harmonizing, it just plain strange sounding noise to my ears

[@blkindians7974]

@@KaentukiTheFuki as a singer how can you not tell dat these are all vocal mistakes except (cant let go)?

[@thecatfromsingapore]

wow 0:48 she still sounds like this

[@marcosjeydson4975]

gente essa mulher tem a voz dos anjos

[@sunburstcavvy]

She can actually be polyphonic in her belts. A whistle will come out with the belt.

[@ntallas2142]

i think the whistle from vision of love live in 2002 shining through the rain belongs here too

[@TheeeDanielR]

In her recent Instagram vocal moments she’s done some polyphonic! POLY-RIAH!!

[@antonellaruggiero6868]

antonella, sorprendente, elegante e raffinata nei movimenti, mititca nel gioco con la voce sempre creativa gentile nel suo essere nel tutto.

[@mulyadirahel807]

the queen mariah carey😍🥰🥰😘

[@poketube6224]

Wow that's very astonishing and harmonious

[@johnaeronrosales1197]

im so proud because of her tour in manila

[@princelaveltsopzechoungmo1259]

I appreciate the video. Just wanna add: her best prestation for me, and which should not be neglected, is her live version of "the one"

[@mengzeli4133]

I can do a little whistle (I can go up to A7 but I only have control over D6#). And this would happen whenever im trying to hit a whistle when my throat is not clear especially after hitting notes in other registers. Actually if you have seen that video from ariana, she also said that sometimes her voice does this and she doesn't know what's going on (LOL because obviously she's on the same level as most of us who knows how to hit whistle but cant hit it properly). I guess this is why mariah is so amazing that she can go from chest/head to whistle so easy and she barely have problems hitting them in her performances. This video shows a few examples of that and you can see when this happen she was being very smart by either avoiding the whistle (emotion, vogan1991) or waiting for a few second to have her throat clear (emotion 1991 MTV). AMAZING MARIAH.

[@dancedownyeah25]

X X Mariah taught me so well I can do all her whistles true but true not sad at all lmao 🤣

[@jenpot25]

Queen #MariahCarey

[@kasrabrk5383]

The second one was really well controlled

[@ximenalaudista]

BSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!!!!!!

[@urestauro6367]

She has the Gift of Music.

[@lamargent5434]

Indeed

[@rafildissjr]

1:01 This show in Brazil, she was pregnant with twins. I was at this show, it was wonderful that day❤

[@sabade.]

made me cry

[@hello_gorgeous_]

I have something similar in my voice when I add strobe to falsetto or do something similar on the lowest notes of the voice. Once I sang D2 and D1 at the same time, but the strange thing is that D2 is my bottom note and I could never get below. Something similar happened with my falsetto, I sang E5 and E4 at the same time. There was a feeling of some kind of split in my voice, I was terribly frightened thinking that this was something abnormal, but my vocal teacher reassured me and said that this happens rarely, but still happens.

[@greciachong7787]

Thats called mixed voice

[@kawanpereirasantos1249]

0:17 what the Music?

[@jumonggtulio2650]

0:17 that note!

[@kawanpereirasantos1249]

What the music? Pls

[@amirhamzahabdullah7903]

❤my darlin mariah miss u

[@nikkib2588]

I'm a soprano and my range varies sometimes it's a c6 mostly sometimes it goes up to a g6 and some days my upper register doesn't wanna go that high even though a c6 is like easy to reach without singing along🙂I'm hoping one day to actually learn to control my upper range and learn to use it alot better🙂I recently turned 34 and can still hit the notes though🙂

[@nathanielz6136]

Now that I've heard Mariah sound polyphonic, I remember singing songs and hitting some whistle notes and wondering, "did I hit an F6 or a D6?" Other times I sounded like an Octave Unison. It was almost an autotune sound being produced.

[@allaboutsboyzz4737]

This kzbin.info/www/bejne/naGvnmlvasaYjq8

[@luchats]

That’s called sideways vodeling

[@thomascareyrey7353]

vision of love ❤❤❤❤❤

[@rumahtanahcilacap1993]

Legendary Whistle....

[@evaneimarques1]

Essa mulher é tudo de bom através de sua voz e seu coração bondoso ❤❤

[@alfredamolo2811]

2:10 Head voicee

[@SleepyBuffalo-lu5dn]

IF I HAD THIS VOICE, I WOULD NEVER SHUT UP 😮

[@antonellaruggiero6868]

antonella, una donna e cantante da un grande e immenso cuore che dona sempre se stessa per gli altri, unica al mondo.

[@Robloxtwins_]

I didn’t know she sings this were have I been my whole life

[@kaylamorano8034]

Lmao you didn’t know who mariah Carey was😂😂 she’s the best selling female artist of all time

[@olivianordstrom7287]

love this song

[@susanafelices6410]

MY Superstar diva favorite

[@erikm8372]

I’m pretty sure the whistle of "HATEU" is simply multiple tracks of Mimi recorded & played together. I don’t get polyphonic or diplophonic from that. It just sounds like she’s whistling with a lower harmony added for effect. Similar thing is in the song "Bliss", where every chorus is slightly different than the last, but if you really listen (or get the right app/software to separate the parts), she has like four harmonies singing together. It’s so cool to hear each nuance and subtlety done exactly the same for each part! We know Mariah records her own backing vocals, hence why her main live singers sound so much like her-they have to! Especially Trey! Mimi has such a great idea of layering harmonies. She loves to layer vocals for that “full” feeling and effect. At the very least, she’ll have two harmonies, like an octave apart, if not more. It’s often her middle range with a lower harmony, like a low octave, one singing the third, one is singing the fifth, and one is an octave above (1-3-5-1 or 1-3-5-8).

[@JohnDeLeon28]

That 1:19 whistle note is so RAW like no reverbs at all.

[@henriquecordeiro2891]

*head note

[@sherylsuscano6641]

idol tlga kita

[@violettevicencio363]

Glass can shattered

[@mellimel1174]

Layla Hathaway can do the polyphonic sound, not in whistle register but it’s really awesome. She does it on purpose.

[@patricktilsley9164]

Number 3 is so amazing!!!!

[@antonellaruggiero6868]

antonella, dignita e onore dalla personalita speciale. tvb tvb tvb.

[@amirhamzahabdullah7903]

❤my angle

[@benjamin6220]

I am fascinanted by MC's Voice and whistle above all. I share the same vocal dilema on nodules and whistle range. My Record is G#7/A7. Yes!! You deed a Good job!! thank u!!!

[@everynameiwantedwastoolong6887]

isn't the infinity one headvoice

[@eosornio1558]

Yah

[@johnrovicmendoza5073]

No it isn't headvoice :) It's a whistle... She does lower her whistle register to hit the infinity note... :D

[@PaulMichaelOfficial]

+John Rovic Mendoza it's head voice there's a distinct difference

[@johnrovicmendoza5073]

paul clark Indeed, there is a difference between headvoice and whistle register.. And it is clearly seen that she used whistle register here :)

[@PaulMichaelOfficial]

+John Rovic Mendoza it's head pice I'm a trained vocalist

[@marcel-andrewuttig4688]

Nice video! Didn't this also happen during her BET 2005 Vision of Love performance? :) I feel like this happens even more often for her when she belts when her voice is tired (or when she pushes it)... It happened a lot during the Emancipation of Mimi era whenever she pushed her voice ... and sometimes in 2008 :) At least it was always a good way to tell that she was singing live :)

[@polobaluyut6816]

It happened the most in 2008. It didn't happen much in 2005.

[@Filotus]

+Marcel-André Wuttig Yes, that's what I was expecting to see in this video. I love that whistle.

[@nighthunter_shade4147]

amazing

[@hello-yo2rd]

I heard D6 and Bb6 in the Vision of Love Manila one

[@Dr__Feelgood]

What about the perfectly harmonized split towards the end of All In Your Mind on her debut album that she left on record unedited? Can't remember which newspaper/magazine article I read that pointed that oddity out. And there I was assuming after almost 2 decades of having listened ho the damn thing that she just overdubbed the harmony lol. But once you're aware of it, you'll actually notice that she couldn't have done it on purpose stacking her vocals in the studio like that as she does, since uou can hear a certain rawness/imperfection to it because it was an accident, but a beautiful one. 😜

[@biggityboggityboo8775]

This isn't intended. It's 'scratchyness' or 'raspyness' finding its way into her whistle register. It's mainly due to vocal damage/fatigue (temporary from a cold etc or permanent) with her chords not vibrating uniformly along their edge.

[@MartyMusic777]

In each of these instances, her voice was either tired or she had been belting up a storm, because that's the only way you could get a false-cord function like this to occur. I know that when I've been singing like CRAZY, I'll go into a super-light head voice and sing C5 with a clear-as-day C4 happening an octave below. It's super cool to me, but I don't think Mariah meant for any of these notes to happen.

[@imNotZack_]

3:13 is that Eb5 or is that something else in the background

[@imNotZack_]

@LambilyXDaydream oki

[@rioferdinand1351]

That's because her voice is split up, so it makes kind of harmony in her whistle register

[@merdi4524]

What is the name of the first song 0:17

[@90Outside]

H.a.t.e.u. Having a typical emotional upset. 😂

[@soup8160]

im her fantastic lamb!

[@violet1629]

What's the whistle in 0:03?

[@lonnguyen5384]

H.A.T.E.U

[@SJ-oz8uu]

migrate from E=MC2

[@susanafelices6410]

HEART

[@jayceebaguio]

Now she can belt and whistle at the same time. I know that that "polyphonic" thing sound amazing but for me I'm worried for her vocal cords. She still sings good tho.

[@takemyhand1988]

She's singing like that because her chords were damaged way before she started singing

[@susanafelices6410]

FREE STARS

[@blackbeauty5717]

Her voice is a gift from God

[@gasdev3877]

In the HATEU performance at the beginning she is just singing over the lipped whistle.

[@polobaluyut6816]

It is a backtrack not really a prerecorded one since the studio has that effect too :)

[@mateusmoraisreal]

Nasceu pra brilhar!

[@gulpbiys5705]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHSTgYmpZqeCn9E .

[@damig.966]

I need new TOP of polyphonic notes (whistle, chest, head voice) 😍

[@mattiapiraino710]

it happens sometimes even when she is not using Whistles…check I stay in love performance on X factor (the high part). you are going to hear kinda of a cover whistle

[@Filotus]

At the end of studio version Anytime You Need A Friend there's a really cool one, her voice just flips, it sounds like, lol.

[@noncatholiccatholicrat6309]

It’s such a weird feeling when it happens to you. I have vocal nodes and although I don’t have good access to my whistle register, I when I get sick I sometimes do, and my polyphonic notes feel so weird

[@Themindofp]

THIS IS EARGASM

[@chrisanthemum7]

I've heard it during her belts. Fly like a Bird. I think it was a telethon or charity thing for like, Katrina or something. And on some of the studio stuff.

[@GarageStudio7]

+F. Mora If she's "lipping " as you're claiming why would she even need to make a sound at all....

[@GarageStudio7]

+Christine Donley I agree Christine, I've heard it in that instance and a few others and I attribute it to her nodules; it's amazing though!

[@polobaluyut6816]

I hear it on her Butterfly acapella

[@breakdown7683]

+F. Mora That happens when her mic isn't cut off

[@lichyyyyy]

Actually, it happens when her voice is not in so good condition. So, when she sings, that air become uncontrolled whistles due to her nodules

[@susanafelices6410]

TO GOD LOVE ANGELS SAFE SOULS AMEN

[@parksantiago3511]

Infinity one in that performance looks like a falsetto for me

[@parksantiago3511]

***** I can hear a huge difference between Mariah's whistles and falsettos. Even her airy whistles has a unique timbre that characterizes a whistle.

[@everynameiwantedwastoolong6887]

It's head voice not falsetto

[@parksantiago3511]

+Froster knife (Frosterknife) I really don't want to discuss it anymore, enough. Not being mean, but just tired ^-^

[@leanture3685]

wtf is wrng with you park santiago???? Froster only sayd what he thought and you think you know it all lol. Let me tell you something honty im 29 and i actually grew up to MC and went to a lot of her europe concerts and i even met her a couple of times during meet and greets at her concert......long before the fucking selfie instagram crap.....back when people were actually normal and disnt use words like im shook and its lit! Im just gon lay it out to honty. That note of infinity was a C#6 note sung in her whistle register by blowing out air like she usually does. Its not falsetto nor headvoice! ITs a headvoice note yes but sung in the whistle register! I do it all the time. For example i can hit a B6 in airy whsitle and slide it all the way down to a A5 note! Technically im still in the whistle register but using the whistle to go down and hit headvocie notes. The vocal chords are a very tricky and ahrd thing to understand sometimes. I can also hit whistle notes usingmy headvoice. I can go all the way up to a G6. Using my headvocie to hit the whistle is actually much healthier and i can hit it all the time all day every day comapred to the airy whistles that mariah uses. They sound very heavenly and airy but they are very unreliable sometimes. On top of that MC s nodules really make her unique in the sence that her vocie does really strange things sometimes like in this video where she creates two pitches with 1 note. Or when she does a belting note and breaks it or goes up or down after holding the note, she makes little whsitle cracks inbetween her voice and stuff like that.

[@therabbitdunn4590]

Richard very accurate it’s was a whistle

[@andikagoh]

What is the title of very first opening's song please ?