History Main / SopranoAndGravel

* Dimmu Borgir started using this when ICS Vortex was in the band (they had also used it earlier, with "Over bleknede blåner til dommedag" from ''For all tid'' and "The Night Masquerade" from ''Enthrone Darkness Triumphant'').

* Progressive death metal band Cynic uses this in pretty much every song...sort of. Instead of mixing soprano vocals and gravelly vocals, they mix vocoded robot vocals and growled death metal vocals.

* Deadlock may be the best example. Johannes Prem performs really harsh (for melodeath) growling vocals, while female vocalist Sabine Scherer performs in a very clean, girlish melodic voice. Props to being one of the few non-GothicMetal examples.
* As I Lay Dying has the lead vocalist with deathlike growls and their bassist with clean vocals.

* Otep has Soprano and Gravel vocals...both done by the lead singer, Otep Shamaya. Who is a woman.
* Another good example of the same thing is Ukrainian prog-death/djent band Jinjer and its vocalist Tatiana Shmailyuk, who does growl and clean vocals without a hitch.

* Music/DevinTownsend, in almost all of his work, combines at least six different varieties of growling with clean vocals. For a better example, check out the album "Ziltoid the Omniscient", and then check the liner notes. Yes, every single voice on the album was ONE GUY.

* It isn't their usual style, but Turisas do this in a few songs (e.g. Midnight Sunrise).
* [=iwrestledabearonce=] did it with its frontwoman Courtney LaPlante, who could use death growl and then switch to more traditional singing in the middle of a song (usually on a single syllable).

* Maria Brink from In This Moment does both by herself as well.

* Music/{{Queen}} has macho tenor Music/FreddieMercury paired with the much smoother-voiced Music/BrianMay.
** Roger Taylor's raspy husky voice paired with Freddie also counts. Note that Roger has also sung way higher and softer than Freddie sometimes, therefore inverting the roles.
* Behemoth's layered vocals could be considered a serious subversion of this, particularly on ''Demigod'', where Nergal would double-track nearly every line on the album, recording himself screaming in a very high pitched black metal style scream, and then bellowing over it with a low roaring voice.

* Disarmonia Mundi does it with growler Claudio and clean singer Ettore. And then there's former member and occasional guest vocalist Speed from Soilwork, who uses ''both'' harsh and clean singing, resulting in a quite beautiful vocal mess.

* Protest the Hero reverses the above example with the lead singer using a high-pitched power metal style croon (which he will sometimes turn into a harsh scream or a falsetto) with one of the other members supplying backing death grunts. Also, in Kezia, an alto woman will do a lower harmony while Rody sings HIGHER than her.
* "And Then Came To Kill" by The Chariot has the frantic, psychotic scream of Josh Scogin placed alongside guest vocals from Paramore's Hayley Williams.
* Funeral For A Friend perfected this contrast in their song 'Red Is The New Black'. The intro has the singer on his own, the verses and middle eight have contrasting screaming and singing and then the chorus is pure singing with the rest of the band providing harmony. The chorus is so successful because it comes across like a breath of fresh air after the heavy verses.
* Husker Du stood out with Bob Mould's raw, more punkish screaming and Grant Hart's tamer, more melodic singing.
* "Baby I'm An Anarchist" sees Against Me! adding soprano vocals to their normal gravelly ones.

* The Pogues' rendition of "Fairytale of New York". And while you're at it, make that "soprano and drunken gravel."

** X had a similar situation, with John Doe having a croon reminiscent of a '40s/'50s singer, and then-wife Exene Cervenka having a rough, punk growl.

* Music/{{Squeeze}}'s Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, respectively; it's never hard to tell who sings what.

* H.I.M have played with this on occasion. Notably with their cover of Blue Oyster Cults "Don't Fear The Reaper".

* Ex-Chiodos frontman Craig Owens is/was most known for singing in a high falsetto, to then [[CarefulWithThatAxe switch to gut-wrenching screams mid-song]].

* "Sometimes Always" by The Jesus & Mary Chain. The usual raspy sneer of William Reid is paired with the purer-sounding voice of [[Music/MazzyStar Hope Sandoval]].

* "We Share Our Mother's Health" by The Knife: With the aid of studio effects, Karin Dreijer sings [[SelfBackingVocalist both]] the soprano ''and'' gravel parts.

* Many {{Eurobeat}} songs, especially those produced by Hi-NRG Attack in the Euromach era; e.g. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmUBKoAsOJ4 "Super Euro Flash"]].

** [[AWildRapperAppears Rapper Xzibit features]] as the "gravel" half of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awvqIi427_A And We Run]]".

* Parodied, along with a lot of other Eurodance cliches, by comedian Kyle Gordon's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-OgkNgxm3k&pp=ygUPcGxhbmV0IHJlYWN0aW9u "Planet of the Bass"]]. Gordon, in character as DJ Crazy Times, performs the gravelly rap vocals himself, while the alto-level singing is supplied by the pseudonymous Ms. Biljana Electronica.

** All-girl metal band Kittie does this as well. Lead vocalist Morgan Lander used to stick to just screaming, but on more recent albums has opted to do both clean and guttural vocals.

* Gender-inverted in both the original "[[https://youtu.be/7JmKYsVpSMc If You Leave Me Now]]" by Jaya feat. Stevie B., and its remake by Stevie B. feat. Alexia Philips.

* Gender-inverted in both the original "If You Leave Me Now" by Jaya feat. Stevie B., and its remake by Stevie B. feat. Alexia Philips.

* Hubert Kah notably exhibits this on "[[https://youtu.be/l2n-Fi5w15U Cathy]]"(f/Amy Goff) and "[[https://youtu.be/k58nHCFbfYw® C'est la vie]]"(f/Susanne Kemmler). Likewise, Sandra (Lauer), whose [[CreatorCouple producer(and for a while, husband)]] Michael Cretu also worked with Hubert Kah and later founded Music/{{Enigma}}, dueted with [[EarlyBirdCameo pre-fame]] Hubert Kemmler on "[[https://youtu.be/l1DIV8V_zwQ (I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena]]").

* Rampant in ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'', notably in any of Audrey II's numbers as well as Now (It's Just The Gas).

* The children's album ''Free To Be...You and Me'' has "[[https://youtu.be/SKqUltWaJJ0 Parents Are People]]" by Creator/MarloThomas and Music/HarryBelafonte.

* The finale of Music/{{AURORA}}'s "It Happened Quiet" and parts of "Churchyard" back her ethereal soprano voice with a deep men's choir.

* The children's album ''Free To Be...You and Me'' has "Parents Are People" by Creator/MarloThomas and Music/HarryBelafonte.

** Since [[Music/SeventhWonder Tommy Karevik]] became their singer, this has shown up at least once on each album. Unusually, the Karevik-era examples feature female growlers ([[Music/ArchEnemy Alissa White-Gluz]] on ''Silverthorn'' and ''Haven'', Lauren Hart (Once Human) on ''The Shadow Theory''), while Tommy sings cleanly.

* In the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/FrogAndToad'', the title characters are voiced by Will Ryan and Hal Smith.
* The classic "Mahnah Mahnah" routine from Franchise/TheMuppets is an example, as is Series/TheMuppetShow opening theme.

* Music/{{Aqua}} are the TropeCodifier for dance-pop music.

[[folder: Country]]

* FM Attack's "So Blue" features backing vocals by Shawn Ward's then [[ChildProdigy five-year-old]] daughter Stella.

* Music/{{Timbaland}} in "Promiscuous" with Music/NellyFurtado and "Return the Favour" with Keri Hilson.

* Music/RickAstley, famous for his deep soulful baritone voice, dueted with Lisa Stansfield on "[[https://youtu.be/OiZlXOAOLLw When You Gonna]]", and Music/KylieMinogue on a [[https://youtu.be/OiZlXOAOLLw live medley]] of his "Never Gonna Give You Up" and her "I Should Be So Lucky".