Falsetto
Falsetto is a singing technique that uses a voice pitched higher than the singer's supposedly natural range or register.Falsetto can also mean an artificially raised speaking pitch. This often occurs momentarily if repeatedly in males during puberty for psychosocial reasons. The break between voice registers, audible or not, is called the passaggio.
Many people consider women, because of physical differences from males, to not have or be capable of falsetto, but instead a head voice.
See also: vocal fry or glottal fry.
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