What voice to use when speaking?

Question

OK, I believe I'm the first one asking this question because I tried to find answer everywhere and just couldn't!

I am 15 years old (almost 16 years old). I always knew how to sing, and two years ago, I joined a choir in my city. After they checked my range they put me as a "young tenor".

Time has passed, and I really don't know if my voice has changed yet, but now I have something really confusing. Right now, this is the situation: my chest voice sounds really low and dark, like a low bass, and that worries me because I want to stay a tenor, as my chest voice can go down to E2 at its lowest and up to E4 maximum.

The weird thing is, my head voice, which I'm not so sure is a head voice and not a chest voice, can go down to to F2 with much diffuculty and maximum up to F6 with falsetto, but regularly my head voice is like a natural lyric tenor, just like Bruno Mars, and when I speak, I don't know which voice I should use, the really low one, which some can say might be my chest voice, or the one I regularly use which is my lyric tenor voice.

Please help!!!

Answer 1

Your speaking voice should be what you are comfortable using, both physically as well as in communication. Your singing voice, again, should be what you are confortable using, both physically as well as matching the music.

You are constraining yourself if you don't allow yourself to adapt to the situation. You can use a different voice in different situations (I remember that I kept a much lighter/younger voice when distributing magazines and cashing for them: I think I felt that it was better for tips). You can sing, even the same pitch, in a number of different colors depending on the situation.

Try to maintain all you can into adulthood as long as you are not straining your voice. You'll never know when you might want to make use of the choices you got.

Answer 2

I think the best method is placing your type in the middle of your own range, so you have much space for going low and high when you are singing. Sometimes we can't catch the feeling when singing in a low voice, but there is some technique to resolve that problem: you forget about "singing" first, all you have to do is make a "speech" from the lyrics you are trying to sing in your uncomfortable range. Try to find a "reading style" with your new range until your whole diaphragm identifies a new character. Try to sing like making a dialogue for the first. Don't use any vibration or any vocal technique; then you will find your comfort zone itself.