Easy Pop Songs For Altos

• No Scrubs (TLC)
• Believe (Cher)
• Someone Like You (Adele)
• Mamma Mia (ABBA)
• Gimme One Reason (Tracy Chapman)
• Raise Your Glass (Pink)
• Rehab (Amy Winehouse)
• Royals (Lorde)

What’s more, it’s very uncommon for a Broadway show to have an alto in the leading role. That’s actually a great thing for you — most alto roles in musicals are character roles. When you’re auditioning, these character songs are so much easier to act!

Altos

• “Nobody’s Heart” – By Jupiter Music➝
• “One Hundred Easy Ways” – Wonderful Town Music➝
• “Say Yes” – 70, Girls, 70 Music➝
• “What a Nice Idea” – Two Gentlemen of Verona Music➝
• “My Time of Day” – Guys and Dolls Music➝
• “Sometimes a Day Goes By” – Woman of the Year Music➝
• “Welcome Home” – Fanny Music➝

“On My Own” from Les Misérables – The Most Popular of the Alto Belt Songs.

Taylor Swift is undoubtedly a soprano, either a light lyric soprano or a soubrette. Because her voice is not very agile nor large, and she has a relatively low tessitura for a soprano, Swift should likely be considered a soubrette.

Lady Gaga is a great example of a mezzo-soprano. Her timbre is feminine, but slightly darker and more sensitive and mature than a typical lyric soprano. Despite her good technique, Gaga rarely enters the upper 5th octave.

alto, (Italian: “high”), in vocal music the register approximately between the F below middle C to the second D above—the second highest part in four-part music. The word alto originally referred to the highest male voice, singing falsetto (see countertenor).

The mezzo-soprano or mezzo is the second highest female voice type. If the sopranos split in half, a mezzo will sing the lower melody as typically, a mezzo vocal timbre is darker and tessitura lower than the soprano.

Simple Broadway Songs

• Seize The Day (from NEWSIES THE MUSICAL)
• Send In The Clowns (from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC)
• Singin’ In The Rain (from SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN)
• Somewhere (from WEST SIDE STORY)
• Summertime (from PORGY AND BESS(R))
• Waving Through A Window (from DEAR EVAN HANSEN)
• When I Grow Up (from MATILDA THE MUSICAL)

“Colors of the Wind” is a particularly beginner-friendly song. Its largely stepwise melody offers beginning students security, and the chorus gives singers a chance to stretch their vocal range without being overly demanding.

Top Songs to Avoid at an Audition

• “Popular” from Wicked.
• “Defying Gravity” from Wicked.
• “For Good” from Wicked.
• “Gimme Gimme” from Thoroughly Modern Millie.
• “Not For the Life of Me” from Thoroughly Modern Millie.
• “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Misérables.
• “On My Own” from Les Misérables.
• “Bring Him Home” from Les Misérables.

“As Long As He Needs Me” – Oliver! Music➝ “So What?” – Cabaret Music➝ “What Would You Do?” – Cabaret Music➝ “Every Tear a Mother Cries” – Honk! Music➝ “Come to Your Senses” – Tick, Tick…BOOM! Music➝ By the way… If you like this post, you might also like: Have you tried out any of these audition songs for altos?

“Stormy Weather” — here’s a classic torch song with lots of emotion and a truly gorgeous vocal line, making it the perfect audition song for an alto interested in jazz. It was written by Harold Arlen, who composed the music for “Wizard of Oz”.

The problem with alto singing is that oftentimes singers are miscategorized, and the definition of what alto singing actually is not helping either. The word alto is Italian and comes from the Latin word Altus, alto in Italian means high.

Now to the confusing part, as alto means high you might probably think it refers to the highest sound or voice which a singer can produce.