people call this guy gay and weird and our music is nothing like this..... excuse me but what about the 80's glam rock?! those dudes screamed "high" notes, wore skinny jeans, and had long hair.... tell me THAT's not gay
He's not a faggot, he's like me. I've been in choir since around 6th grade, and after puberty discovered that I may hit anywhere between bass and soprano 2. Therefore, this seems to be natural, yet somewhat uncommon. And I assure you, I still have every manly part I was born with. And YES, I was born with said manly parts.
I could sing the infamous "Queen Of The Night" aria (super F) until my mid-twenties; now considerably older, I am still comfortable up to a high C - both pianissimo and fortissimo.
And I can assure you I am perfectly formed with no bits missing!
There's a rather crappy iPhone vid on my channel of me performing one of my faves, "O Mio Babbino Caro"; check it out!
I think it was in this TV programme that Michael Maniaci sang the Largo from Handel's Xerxes. It was absolutely exquisite & beautifully controlled, but I can't find it on Youtube. Does anyone have it? I'd love to hear it again. I don't care how he creates his sound - I just love to hear it. Thanks.
No matter what your range or where your tessitura, MEN ARE NOT SOPRANOS. The term is exclussively used for women. The proper term is countertenor. IF you're feeling indulgent, sopranist is used by some to described men with soprano-like tessitura and range. BUT NOT SOPRANO.
I wanna know what his hormones are like that kept him from developing normally through puberty. His speaking voice is weird. Were I to classify him from speaking, I'd call him a tenorino and yet he sings truly soprano rep WELL. bizarre.
The difference between Michael Maniaci and a counter-tenor like let's say Elfo Dannilu is that his vocal ability comes naturally and he does not use falsetto. Falsetto is the reason why most countertenors sound so much like women, if you listen closely to some of their higher notes, you can actually hear the distinct flunctuations which sound a lot like they are breaking.
The composer Johannes Brahms had a high voice too, which never changed much at all as he was growing up. I read about it in a biography. He didn't like it so he disguised it by speaking in a sort of growl! But obviously there was no hormonal reason - he grew a splendid beard and liked the ladies! And he wrote some of the most powerful, virile music ever heard.
Male sopranos and endocrinological castratos are not the same thing. Male soprano as a term connotes that the reason that the voice remains high is unknown. That means he can grow a beard also, which has actually been proven of him.
@zzyzybynsky I assume his speaking voice sits near the bottom of his full range range
For example, I'm a bass, but you totally wouldn't be able to tell, because I actually speak with a higher part of my voice. I can conciously speak lower, but I choose not to because I prefer having a more 'normal' sounding voice.
I assume he chooses to speak with a lower voice, as to not stand out as unusual when he speaks.
@zzyzybynsky Speaking voice and range rarely correlate. He is speaking at the very bottom of his range, trying to sound more masculine. Most guys who speak in that range are at least in the upper-middle part of their range.
@zzyzybynsky He is more than likely speaking in his lower register. I know a lot of males who do this because they dislike the range of their normal speaking voice.
@zzyzybynsky There are men with low voices and men with high voices. There are women with high voices and women with low voices. I theorize that we are brought up to believe that men only have deep voices usually and women only have high voices usually, and the ones that have voices contrary to this societal image disguise it. Which is depressing.
@zzyzybynsky I agree, I've encountered male speaking voices just as high. His pitch isn't what makes him rare but rather his ability to use it. His skill stands out from the already limited number of male sopranos. I've never been a fan of opera, ironically because I can't stand the high soprano, but Maniaci doesn't give me a mind splitting headache. He can hit the high notes, maybe I'm just so fascinated watching him it takes my mind off it! But my preferences aside, he is seriously talented.
No, it has nothing to do with testicular functioning, but rather adrenal gland and testosterone(baldness,libido,iron absorption,bone strengthening) metabolites and the distributores that work altogether. Dihydrotestosterone(facial and body hair)and 17-beta oestradiol(feminine traits) are the two metabolites of testosterone.
@WibbityWoobityWoolah distributors* And anyway, check out those Asian guys.Each of them just seems to have this set of pipes that is quite peculiar in terms of workings, haha.Cool.
Just curious, has he had some kind of nerve damage or a stroke? I'm really not trying to be mean, I just noticed some slackness to the muscles in his right cheek, his right eyebrow wasn't moving when his left would, and they definitely emphasized filming his left side while he sang.
@realitycheck2088 I know Maniaci isn't a countertenor - but the man who's interviewing him appears to be. I listened to the documentary; I was wanting to know who the other chap was.
Being polite, while perhaps not general YouTube policy, is always nice.
I can relate somewhat. I'm 19, and have already gone through puberty, my larynx has pretty much stopped growing but it's obvious that it is definitely smaller than most, I still talk naturally in a pretty high pitched voice compared to most guys my age that I've ever met and I can sing up to about an A5 without falsetto. I can still get pretty low too, surprisingly, but the high tenor/low alto tone is most natural for me.
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You straight white christian males and the Asians brainwashed by them are wasting time listening to euro classical music. You should be listening to music that has SOUL like Coltrane and Miles. Handel couldn't pick up James Brown's jockstrap.
I didn't make out much of what he was talking, smth about his cords and a soprano register. His vocal cords are just like any male cords judging by the way he speaks. He only has a well trained falsetto voice that sounds ALMOST like female. On the whole he sings well.
He doesn't even come close to falsetto in the song he sings.
When a person is using falsetto(which i often do so) it will sqeeze a tiny bit of air out and under a whole lot of pressure to get to these high, fragile notes.
Michael hasn't used falsetto, but is trained very well as a choirboy in his youth and besides...if he would only sing in the topregister of his voice he would destroy it himself.
Why would a person that lives on his voice destroy it?!?
well, may be you are quite right but he sings in a contralto or low mezzo-soprano register. His voice doesn't sound as soprano at all.But his singing is so great I loved it so much!
Just purchased his new CD which is now available! I love Michael's speaking voice as well. It has a beautiful, resonant tone. His little laugh is even soprano. :-)
in fact, he sounds just like the young David Daniels. The only guy out there who sounds like 'something else' (and I am not saying we should look for something else) is Radu Marian. He does not sound like an american countertenor... this Maniaci guy DOES.
he sounds like a countertenor, exactly like one, though a very high one! why all the hype? and he speaks like a high tenor, not like a boy or a woman...
please! this is just another big hoax to avoid being called 'effeminate' (kowalski's excuses and justifications that he was a 'natural alto' come to mind)
? I am sick of justifications. This man is a very good falsetto sopranist and THAT IS ALL
I am sure he can do falsetto though, I wonder what it sounds like. I am sure it would be high but I am not sure it would be in the whistle range like some female singer can do.
Gosh, that must've been at least six years ago...he was performing with a small company in Washington DC (NOT the National Opera) so I'm afraid it might be lost forever...
I really don't know...if anybody recorded it, i have never heard it. The Washington Post ran a very positive review, though the article's been archived by now..
This is very interesting - I find the whole castrati/counter tenor (sopranist if you must - although I am averse to the term)/male soprano stuff really frascination.
Listening to him with my eyes closed, the quality is similar to but still not exactly the same as a woman (as one would expect I would imagine), he sounds almost like a mezzo. Very difficult to explain.
How do you know he can't do that? This was a very ignorant reply you made to someone who you don't know. There are MANY, though few relatively who can in full modal voice. He is NOT anything close to the only person! Him and the teacher seem to be ignorant of this as well. Please read my comments on the video at watch?v=zSXVPkwsQ-c and I hope I haven't offended you, just making a honest correction
@Reiya67 There are other males who can hit that register, but they all had medical conditions that prevented them from experiencing puberty normally, look up "modern castrati" on wikipedia. Maniaci is the only normally developed male soprano.
@LarryRobinson93 I like your comment, but I think I have to disagree with your last sentence. He's not the only real male soprano in the world. Infact my senior year in high school, we had a male soprano in All-state and he's like 4th chair soprano.
Dude, I apologize on behalf of the silly youtubers who replied presumptuously to your comment. If you can do this, you and this guy are still not the only ones, far from it.
@hhn2002 listen to him, he sounds rather normal apart from when he sings. People might mistake him for a nasal person or a shy squeaker, but not really make fun of it.
I'd still be interested to hear him sing in the tenor range. I once heard that Gigli made the same claim, that at puberty his voice didn't break to the same extent as other males, but still darkened over time, enabling him to sing with what we might call voix mixe, but which to him was just the one voice he had since childhood, with a range of colours. some also argue that male voices require "healing" after puberty, to restore the balance of muscular action, and resultant balance of "registers"
Are we 100% sure he is not castrato? Or that this is not the result of a hormonal imbalance, or other natural fluke, they are quite a few natural phenomenon that can occur and put a person "between" genders and the myrid of characteristics that can appear are almost unlimited.
Nah check out Radu Marian his voice never went through puberty due to some congenital disorder. Though I'd say this guy is the bridge between a typical countertenor and a castrato sound.
right, but by the reaction you would guess people are treating the use of the word castrato as a derogatory statement. A castrato is someone that had their testicles removed to prevent their larynx from developing in the normal way and preserving their higher vocal range. It appears that this might have occurred naturally for Michael M. And therefore your statement is accurate if so.
He's not a castrato or anything alike since he's hormonally perfectly normal. The absence of testosterone does a lot more than leave the voice high; it changes the whole body, which also affects the quality of the voice. MM is hormonally normal, which means that he's even rarer than a castrato - he has a high voice, but with all the depth, richness, and texture of a healthy male one, which they lacked.
Basically, his balls are fine; his larynx just didn't feel like aging for some reason. :-)
true. WIthout lying and being honest i have a higher pitch speaking voice. In sing tenor but can sing up to soprano, i think 2nd soprano though but my notes vary in soprano range. I'm not trained or anything but i wish.
Michael seems to have a nerve palsy on one side of his face. Nerve pathology may have lead to atrophy of the facial muscles and normal development of his vocal cords, unilaterally. Thus a unique voice and high for a male. He has amazing control for the unilateral paralysis!
people call this guy gay and weird and our music is nothing like this..... excuse me but what about the 80's glam rock?! those dudes screamed "high" notes, wore skinny jeans, and had long hair.... tell me THAT's not gay
jfichter69 2 weeks ago
this guy has to watch out for pedobear i think
Uglefaen 2 weeks ago
He's not a faggot, he's like me. I've been in choir since around 6th grade, and after puberty discovered that I may hit anywhere between bass and soprano 2. Therefore, this seems to be natural, yet somewhat uncommon. And I assure you, I still have every manly part I was born with. And YES, I was born with said manly parts.
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he sounds like a faggot
hammondleel94 1 month ago
@hammondleel94 fuck off troll.
EdwardNygma1 2 weeks ago
I could sing the infamous "Queen Of The Night" aria (super F) until my mid-twenties; now considerably older, I am still comfortable up to a high C - both pianissimo and fortissimo.
And I can assure you I am perfectly formed with no bits missing!
There's a rather crappy iPhone vid on my channel of me performing one of my faves, "O Mio Babbino Caro"; check it out!
ziggydamaestro 2 months ago
my god....he's voice is beautiful! ahahaahha
comixgod50 2 months ago
damn is all i can say. he can go higher than me lol
heathermcd89 3 months ago
I think it was in this TV programme that Michael Maniaci sang the Largo from Handel's Xerxes. It was absolutely exquisite & beautifully controlled, but I can't find it on Youtube. Does anyone have it? I'd love to hear it again. I don't care how he creates his sound - I just love to hear it. Thanks.
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better than justin bieber
brunomars13forever 5 months ago
it think his voice goes soprano level but he cant go deep i sing falsetto and its peta easy to go deep and sometimes versatile
chrisstevensjunior 6 months ago
TRUE MALE SOPRANO - it is a rather rare occurence in male singers
having to do with the lack of development of the vocal chords past
puberty. It is NOT falsetto, not castrato, not boy soprano, nor does it
have a thing to do with gender identification - he might be gay or
or straight, a moot point, irrelevant to the extraordinary voice
Michael has. His speaking voice is within all average male speaking
voices, that is not what distinguishes him in Opera.
GwenBeauregard 6 months ago 3
this is crazy awesome! i didn't really realize that men's voices could be this high (i mean that in a good way)! it's truely incredible!
Octoberchic25 6 months ago
But... the pop singer Prince can sing falsetto softly!
Ecclizati0n 7 months ago 2
No matter what your range or where your tessitura, MEN ARE NOT SOPRANOS. The term is exclussively used for women. The proper term is countertenor. IF you're feeling indulgent, sopranist is used by some to described men with soprano-like tessitura and range. BUT NOT SOPRANO.
vitaminB100 8 months ago
He has balls right?
Pre114 8 months ago
Love his voice and the discription of how his voice works, just like mine! Thanks for putting this up!!!
lucky7715 8 months ago 2
kind of reminds me of kd lang ,anyone else rekkon im right?
2010DAVIDmd 9 months ago
I saw Michael Last night in La Clemenza Di Tito In Toronto and he was amazing .
earljennifer78 9 months ago
fascinating, thank heavens for mutants!
tklogan111809 9 months ago
I was struck by how seemingly low he sounded when speaking
MorseCoach 11 months ago
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Does he know he's gay, or is it that obvious that it's unnecessary to let him know
UberLifeTroll 11 months ago
Fascinating. Thanks for posting this.
NoodlesSF 11 months ago
I wanna know what his hormones are like that kept him from developing normally through puberty. His speaking voice is weird. Were I to classify him from speaking, I'd call him a tenorino and yet he sings truly soprano rep WELL. bizarre.
SCharton1972 1 year ago
Do you have anything material containing your natural chest voice?
highnote32 1 year ago
The difference between Michael Maniaci and a counter-tenor like let's say Elfo Dannilu is that his vocal ability comes naturally and he does not use falsetto. Falsetto is the reason why most countertenors sound so much like women, if you listen closely to some of their higher notes, you can actually hear the distinct flunctuations which sound a lot like they are breaking.
TheMathias456 1 year ago
his larynx did not develop right? i can do soprano range using falsetto... i am a male
sumimimi0 1 year ago
The composer Johannes Brahms had a high voice too, which never changed much at all as he was growing up. I read about it in a biography. He didn't like it so he disguised it by speaking in a sort of growl! But obviously there was no hormonal reason - he grew a splendid beard and liked the ladies! And he wrote some of the most powerful, virile music ever heard.
tahileki 1 year ago 7
Male sopranos and endocrinological castratos are not the same thing. Male soprano as a term connotes that the reason that the voice remains high is unknown. That means he can grow a beard also, which has actually been proven of him.
WibbityWoobityWoola1 1 year ago
How can anyone dislike this video. Idiots...
EmeraldSky33 1 year ago
@EmeraldSky33 It has something to do with envy I guess. :D
realitycheck2088 1 year ago
i know many men with speaking voices as high as maniaci's speaking voice
it seems that this is not really that uncommon, i'm sure many of you know at least one man with a pretty naturally high voice (not an affectation)
zzyzybynsky 1 year ago 15
@zzyzybynsky I assume his speaking voice sits near the bottom of his full range range
For example, I'm a bass, but you totally wouldn't be able to tell, because I actually speak with a higher part of my voice. I can conciously speak lower, but I choose not to because I prefer having a more 'normal' sounding voice.
I assume he chooses to speak with a lower voice, as to not stand out as unusual when he speaks.
TesseractDigital 7 months ago 2
@zzyzybynsky Speaking voice and range rarely correlate. He is speaking at the very bottom of his range, trying to sound more masculine. Most guys who speak in that range are at least in the upper-middle part of their range.
trlkly 7 months ago
@zzyzybynsky He is more than likely speaking in his lower register. I know a lot of males who do this because they dislike the range of their normal speaking voice.
ANeonGenesis 3 months ago
@zzyzybynsky It is extremely rare that men can sing like this naturally
Kalabanano 2 months ago
@zzyzybynsky There are men with low voices and men with high voices. There are women with high voices and women with low voices. I theorize that we are brought up to believe that men only have deep voices usually and women only have high voices usually, and the ones that have voices contrary to this societal image disguise it. Which is depressing.
EdwardNygma1 3 weeks ago
@zzyzybynsky I agree, I've encountered male speaking voices just as high. His pitch isn't what makes him rare but rather his ability to use it. His skill stands out from the already limited number of male sopranos. I've never been a fan of opera, ironically because I can't stand the high soprano, but Maniaci doesn't give me a mind splitting headache. He can hit the high notes, maybe I'm just so fascinated watching him it takes my mind off it! But my preferences aside, he is seriously talented.
TonicLuv 1 week ago
Aww his voice is lovely!
munnonockspirit 1 year ago
No, it has nothing to do with testicular functioning, but rather adrenal gland and testosterone(baldness,libido,iron absorption,bone strengthening) metabolites and the distributores that work altogether. Dihydrotestosterone(facial and body hair)and 17-beta oestradiol(feminine traits) are the two metabolites of testosterone.
WibbityWoobityWoolah 1 year ago
@WibbityWoobityWoolah distributors* And anyway, check out those Asian guys.Each of them just seems to have this set of pipes that is quite peculiar in terms of workings, haha.Cool.
WibbityWoobityWoolah 1 year ago
Just curious, has he had some kind of nerve damage or a stroke? I'm really not trying to be mean, I just noticed some slackness to the muscles in his right cheek, his right eyebrow wasn't moving when his left would, and they definitely emphasized filming his left side while he sang.
TenoreRobusto1347 1 year ago
@TenoreRobusto1347 But then again, maybe I'm just crazy.
TenoreRobusto1347 1 year ago
He should do cartoon voices. :D
seyarle 1 year ago
hes a fuckin mofo for having that voice no one can mess with him
questribe 1 year ago
wow nice voice lls
Zaprheniah1 1 year ago
If only he were as pretty as his voice is. I'd totally do him.
GoApples 1 year ago
I bet he's a virgin
seganerd89 1 year ago
@seganerd89 I bet you are too.
immaeatchu336 1 year ago
For daily communication, this guy's voice is so weird.
Pre114 1 year ago
Who is the countertenor who is interviewing him?
90lysander 1 year ago
@90lysander His not a countertenor but a real male soprano. Please listen to the documentary before posting a comment.
realitycheck2088 1 year ago
@realitycheck2088 I know Maniaci isn't a countertenor - but the man who's interviewing him appears to be. I listened to the documentary; I was wanting to know who the other chap was.
Being polite, while perhaps not general YouTube policy, is always nice.
90lysander 1 year ago
Michael has an extraordinary voice!
arpeggio1358 1 year ago
he definately sounds like a male when talking though...
strange, eh?
StaceyMitchellx 1 year ago
I can relate somewhat. I'm 19, and have already gone through puberty, my larynx has pretty much stopped growing but it's obvious that it is definitely smaller than most, I still talk naturally in a pretty high pitched voice compared to most guys my age that I've ever met and I can sing up to about an A5 without falsetto. I can still get pretty low too, surprisingly, but the high tenor/low alto tone is most natural for me.
m8cct 1 year ago
You betta sing Mike!
Luckey2007 1 year ago
he sounds like fucking mickey mouse
b4hm3r 1 year ago
@b4hm3r
This made me laugh,good one:D
lakdcj 1 year ago
@b4hm3r If you like to fuck mickey mouse, then you're quite sick.
7beers 1 year ago
@7beers
when did i say that you goof
b4hm3r 1 year ago
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You straight white christian males and the Asians brainwashed by them are wasting time listening to euro classical music. You should be listening to music that has SOUL like Coltrane and Miles. Handel couldn't pick up James Brown's jockstrap.
dawg00000 1 year ago
@dawg00000 I honestly pity the mind that composed this comment.
7beers 1 year ago
@7beers, why pity? Because you know in your heart Handel and Mozart collectively could not pick up James Brown's jockstrap?
dawg00000 1 year ago
The reason his speaking voice doesn't sound like a girl is only cause he's learned to speak in a more masculine way like most guys do.
It's all psychological, his larynx is still about the size of a woman's but he talks like any guy would besides it being in a higher pitch
BestNameEvar 1 year ago
hes blessed to have such a unique voice
jesusfreaklol1 1 year ago
that giggle at 1:35 ahahah sums it all up
MincedFeet 1 year ago 3
o snap..
schwarzfalk 1 year ago
@schwarzfalk
dankmdh 1 year ago
I didn't make out much of what he was talking, smth about his cords and a soprano register. His vocal cords are just like any male cords judging by the way he speaks. He only has a well trained falsetto voice that sounds ALMOST like female. On the whole he sings well.
toni7777ful 1 year ago
Nah he's not singing falsetto.
razorrudd 1 year ago
He doesn't even come close to falsetto in the song he sings.
When a person is using falsetto(which i often do so) it will sqeeze a tiny bit of air out and under a whole lot of pressure to get to these high, fragile notes.
Michael hasn't used falsetto, but is trained very well as a choirboy in his youth and besides...if he would only sing in the topregister of his voice he would destroy it himself.
Why would a person that lives on his voice destroy it?!?
lonely1wicca 1 year ago
well, may be you are quite right but he sings in a contralto or low mezzo-soprano register. His voice doesn't sound as soprano at all.But his singing is so great I loved it so much!
toni7777ful 1 year ago
@toni7777ful He is a soprano, don't tell me BBC world a reputable news program is making this up.
realitycheck2088 1 year ago
@realitycheck2088 I'd say he's not a soprano, but a sopranist.
toni7777ful 1 year ago
Please allow embedding, I'd love to post this directly to my blog!
andygoddamnjones 1 year ago
Mah-nee-ah-chee. I think.
Damien9607 1 year ago
Golden voice!
RiceKruspey 1 year ago
This was very informative! Thank you for posting.
BagLady25 2 years ago
This guy is amazing!
Guichotpresident 2 years ago
Just purchased his new CD which is now available! I love Michael's speaking voice as well. It has a beautiful, resonant tone. His little laugh is even soprano. :-)
velvetcaress 2 years ago 11
He totally sounds like Mickey Mouse!
ejgcarlos 2 years ago 3
Maniaci releases his first solo album with Boston Baroque this month -- cant wait! he's delich!
OperaPhan1 2 years ago 2
amazing. -tear-
ladysquier 2 years ago
i lold
AzranTheWarlock 2 years ago
in fact, he sounds just like the young David Daniels. The only guy out there who sounds like 'something else' (and I am not saying we should look for something else) is Radu Marian. He does not sound like an american countertenor... this Maniaci guy DOES.
amatorynumber 2 years ago
he sounds like a countertenor, exactly like one, though a very high one! why all the hype? and he speaks like a high tenor, not like a boy or a woman...
please! this is just another big hoax to avoid being called 'effeminate' (kowalski's excuses and justifications that he was a 'natural alto' come to mind)
? I am sick of justifications. This man is a very good falsetto sopranist and THAT IS ALL
amatorynumber 2 years ago
Is this on CD anywhere? I love the song on this video.
pochankitty 2 years ago
gorgeous gift from god!
Shanniquitie 2 years ago
I am sure he can do falsetto though, I wonder what it sounds like. I am sure it would be high but I am not sure it would be in the whistle range like some female singer can do.
Untemperedsteel 2 years ago
OMG! Seems unreal! If you just look at him, then close ur eyes and listen, the image of a lavish female soprano comes to mind...
aweitzer1 2 years ago 3
I saw him in 'Xerxes'. He was awesome, especially in 'Crude furie'.
Falstaff85 2 years ago
Really? !!! Where and when was that? Think there's already a recording of that, that might pop up on YouTube? Oh what I'd give to hear THAT!
compeld2sing 2 years ago
Gosh, that must've been at least six years ago...he was performing with a small company in Washington DC (NOT the National Opera) so I'm afraid it might be lost forever...
Falstaff85 2 years ago
So, you think NOBODY, ABSOLUTELY NOBODY cared enough to videotape any of that? It would be such a SHAME if that's the case.
compeld2sing 2 years ago
I really don't know...if anybody recorded it, i have never heard it. The Washington Post ran a very positive review, though the article's been archived by now..
it was the summer of 2002, by the way.
Falstaff85 2 years ago
Well, thanks for the info. In 2002 I had never heard of Michael Maniaci, and I wish I had.
compeld2sing 2 years ago
That's interesting, but he can't sing lower than a soprano can, right?.
Inutenma 2 years ago
LOL
WeAreTheSunBears 2 years ago
This is very interesting - I find the whole castrati/counter tenor (sopranist if you must - although I am averse to the term)/male soprano stuff really frascination.
Listening to him with my eyes closed, the quality is similar to but still not exactly the same as a woman (as one would expect I would imagine), he sounds almost like a mezzo. Very difficult to explain.
Very beautiful.
hairwire 2 years ago
Very interesting. I'd love to see him in a performance someday, he really has some amazing pipes.
happyatheist62 2 years ago
Larynx people! DIDN"T DEVELOP! There is nothing genetic about it! He is NOT using falsetto.
TheLestat94 2 years ago 2
No it's not falsetto, he said that, it's his modal voice. Proper singing voice. With amazing control I might add.
Fleepmoop 2 years ago 2
really? that's so awesome! I always thought it was falsetto....
TheBigMack321 2 years ago
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he's using falcetto
tonyhawk2235870 2 years ago
Nope.
MakoThunderbird 2 years ago
i could do that to and im a male! :) nice to know im not the only 1
Itstimetogo123 2 years ago
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Vitas is better then this guy. Vitas song is Lucia di, Opera 2 then youll see why Vitas is better.
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soprana53 2 years ago
No. You couldnt do that. At least not in your modal voice (your chest/head voice). He is the only person in the world who is a "Real" male soprano.
LarryRobinson93 2 years ago 8
How do you know he can't do that? This was a very ignorant reply you made to someone who you don't know. There are MANY, though few relatively who can in full modal voice. He is NOT anything close to the only person! Him and the teacher seem to be ignorant of this as well. Please read my comments on the video at watch?v=zSXVPkwsQ-c and I hope I haven't offended you, just making a honest correction
okebaram 2 years ago
@LarryRobinson93 Um, nope. There are a few. Just not as famous.
pianomags 1 year ago
@LarryRobinson93 I doubt he's the only one. I mean, if there's one, there are others. Then again, I'm a girl and can't even hit that..
Reiya67 1 year ago
@Reiya67 There are other males who can hit that register, but they all had medical conditions that prevented them from experiencing puberty normally, look up "modern castrati" on wikipedia. Maniaci is the only normally developed male soprano.
dschoneberg 11 months ago
@dschoneberg The only normally developed male soprano??? I agree with LarryRobinson93, hear me sing...
lucky7715 8 months ago
@LarryRobinson93 I like your comment, but I think I have to disagree with your last sentence. He's not the only real male soprano in the world. Infact my senior year in high school, we had a male soprano in All-state and he's like 4th chair soprano.
popups46okay 10 months ago
Dude, I apologize on behalf of the silly youtubers who replied presumptuously to your comment. If you can do this, you and this guy are still not the only ones, far from it.
okebaram 2 years ago
Hes affecting his speaking voice . Just like alot of baritones and basses with big ballsy bottom
tenorismo 2 years ago
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my speaking tone is almost the same as maniaci! im a natural castrato as him!
i also have an aria uploaded.
im a soprano 2, amateur.
but natural
greetings!
.Andrés.
NaturalCastrato 2 years ago
Anybody know WHY his vocal chords didn't change much? Obviously he did indeed go through puberty, as I saw him with a beard in another video.
What caused that?
randommagnum 2 years ago
its just his genetics would be my guess. a random mutation, for lack of a better description.
hhn2002 2 years ago
maniaci rocksssssss!!
SergioDJThae 2 years ago
what an amazing gift
kinkii123 2 years ago
and yet what a curse for im sure when he was in early adult hood he was the subject of much ridicule.
hhn2002 2 years ago 15
@hhn2002 Hey, we're all ridiculed at one time or another. The skin grows thick, and the talent remains.
7beers 1 year ago
@hhn2002 listen to him, he sounds rather normal apart from when he sings. People might mistake him for a nasal person or a shy squeaker, but not really make fun of it.
SantomPh 1 year ago 2
I'd still be interested to hear him sing in the tenor range. I once heard that Gigli made the same claim, that at puberty his voice didn't break to the same extent as other males, but still darkened over time, enabling him to sing with what we might call voix mixe, but which to him was just the one voice he had since childhood, with a range of colours. some also argue that male voices require "healing" after puberty, to restore the balance of muscular action, and resultant balance of "registers"
calafsdream 2 years ago 2
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i dont get this shit
joker6951 2 years ago
I kind of feel bad. His speaking voice is very strange. He got his voice because of a medical condition. Wow, thats crazy.
Evangalista890 2 years ago
This is impressive.
temporaryguy 2 years ago
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This is the single most unattractive thing I've ever seen.
plasteg 2 years ago
this guy pulls all the women
goodeldash 2 years ago
His speaking voice is on the high side, but doesn't sound "female" per se.
RockinRight 2 years ago 20
it sounds female to me. Especially when i scroll down away from the vid to the comments and just listen to the audio.
tubeview888 2 years ago
@RockinRight hm, if you close your eyes he sounds quite female in his speaking voice, i think. or you might as well think he caught a cold... :)
pastasalademmm 1 year ago
@RockinRight
right. I find that he was artificially lowering his speaking voice in order to fit into the two gender model we know now...
amballa 1 year ago
his normal speaking voice sounds pretty average, but his singing voice is definitely soprano, and a damn good one!
arxarts 2 years ago 4
I wouldn't mistake his speaking voice for a woman's.
cabbalistic 2 years ago
neither would I. I think his singing voice is beautiful though.
RatPackFan88 2 years ago 2
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Sounds less like a congenital disorder and more like a genital disorder.
xarcherx987 2 years ago
HAhahah.
DavithRedway 2 years ago 2
they used to have to castrate someone to pull this off, that's why he's so impressive
bmgleaso 2 years ago 6
Are we 100% sure he is not castrato? Or that this is not the result of a hormonal imbalance, or other natural fluke, they are quite a few natural phenomenon that can occur and put a person "between" genders and the myrid of characteristics that can appear are almost unlimited.
tubeview888 2 years ago 3
Well, he can grow a beard so I don't think it's hormonal ;)
Thrax1982 2 years ago 7
@tubeview888 Well, he is my cousin, so with confidence I can say he is one fantastic male soprano. The End.
whatsheknowsaboutyou 1 year ago
@tubeview888 Well, he is my cousin, so with confidence I can say he is one fantastic male soprano. The End.
whatsheknowsaboutyou 1 year ago
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Yes we are sure. His voice just didn't develop properly during puberty.
SinclairisCool 1 year ago
He is also a highly trained singer with a master in vocal performance from Julliard. He is a serious pedigree in the opera world.
philster61 2 years ago 2
WOW! He's a great singer though.
RatPackFan88 2 years ago
I rather hear a female soprano--If a woman sounded like this is would be considered mediocre--must my opinion of course:))
iristacrat 2 years ago
he is basically a natural castrato....which is very rare
brabon1 2 years ago
Nah check out Radu Marian his voice never went through puberty due to some congenital disorder. Though I'd say this guy is the bridge between a typical countertenor and a castrato sound.
Masamuneblader 2 years ago
it is pretty rare
if it wasnt, there would be many more high tenors
it is a very beautiful sound tho
brabon1 2 years ago
Yeah, sorry but he doesn't sound any different from any countertenor
starbreez3 2 years ago 5
He has more natural ease with this though and can use full voice for it which offers loads more versatility.
Masamuneblader 2 years ago
right, but by the reaction you would guess people are treating the use of the word castrato as a derogatory statement. A castrato is someone that had their testicles removed to prevent their larynx from developing in the normal way and preserving their higher vocal range. It appears that this might have occurred naturally for Michael M. And therefore your statement is accurate if so.
tubeview888 2 years ago
He's not a castrato or anything alike since he's hormonally perfectly normal. The absence of testosterone does a lot more than leave the voice high; it changes the whole body, which also affects the quality of the voice. MM is hormonally normal, which means that he's even rarer than a castrato - he has a high voice, but with all the depth, richness, and texture of a healthy male one, which they lacked.
Basically, his balls are fine; his larynx just didn't feel like aging for some reason. :-)
janiscortese 2 years ago 42
if so, pretty cool
tubeview888 2 years ago
his speaking voice sounds a bit like julia child
jesparza562 2 years ago
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Masamuneblader 2 years ago
His muffled laughter sounds a bit like Mickey Mouse to me O.O
Masamuneblader 2 years ago 6
had the exact same thought. lol
sailorhikaru85 2 years ago
haha!
cabbalistic 2 years ago
he's talking voice is more like a Man trying to impersonate a woman
MatafixFrostmourne 2 years ago 3
I dont get it it sounds like falsetto...but yet he's very comfortable singing high, and does sound like a woman singing yet..I dunno..
Dominick7 2 years ago 2
yeah, that is not falsetto. you can hear it if you pay close attention.
michaelgregleblanc 2 years ago
he does sound like mickey!
happytwisteddounut 2 years ago 5
Maniaci rox
Fuliginosus 2 years ago
He sounds like Mickey Mouse!
michaelwalsh1234 2 years ago 2
I know he does sound like mickey mouse a bit lol.
tionluvs2dance2music 2 years ago
Tienes una voz preciosa la verdad!! :D
isaabelitaa 2 years ago
Beautiful!!!!!!!
mrharpsi 2 years ago
His speaking voice sound like a man
tionluvs2dance2music 2 years ago
:S no he doesn't, he sounds like in between haha
like he sounds like a girl at points of it
lilmissvamp 2 years ago 2
true. WIthout lying and being honest i have a higher pitch speaking voice. In sing tenor but can sing up to soprano, i think 2nd soprano though but my notes vary in soprano range. I'm not trained or anything but i wish.
tionluvs2dance2music 2 years ago
Nah, he sounds like a woman.
TheNilvarg 2 years ago
yeah he does but in between. You can still have a deep voice but it can sound feminine.
tionluvs2dance2music 2 years ago
Michael seems to have a nerve palsy on one side of his face. Nerve pathology may have lead to atrophy of the facial muscles and normal development of his vocal cords, unilaterally. Thus a unique voice and high for a male. He has amazing control for the unilateral paralysis!
genkishooto 2 years ago