History Main / SopranoAndGravel

* Hubert Kah notably exhibits this on "[[https://youtu.be/l2n-Fi5w15U Cathy]]"(f/[[Music/{{Enigma}} Sandra]], who also dueted with [[EarlyBirdCameo pre-fame]] Hubert Kemmler on "[[https://youtu.be/l1DIV8V_zwQ (I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena]]") and "[[https://youtu.be/k58nHCFbfYw® C'est la vie]]"(f/Susanne Kemmler).

* Hubert Kah notably exhibits this on "[[https://youtu.be/l2n-Fi5w15U Cathy]]"(f/[[Music/{{Enigma}} Sandra]], who also dueted with [[EarlyBirdCameo pre-fame]] Hubert Kemmler on "[[https://youtu.be/l1DIV8V_zwQ Maria Magdalena]]") and "[[https://youtu.be/k58nHCFbfYw® C'est la vie]]"(f/Susanne Kemmler).

* Hubert Kah notably exhibits this on "[[https://youtu.be/l2n-Fi5w15U Cathy]]"(f/[[Music/{{Enigma}} Sandra]], who previously dueted with [[EarlyBirdCameo pre-fame]] Hubert Kemmler on "[[https://youtu.be/l1DIV8V_zwQ Maria Magdalena]]") and "[[https://youtu.be/k58nHCFbfYw® C'est la vie]]"(f/Susanne Kemmler).

* Hubert Kah notably exhibits this on "[[https://youtu.be/l2n-Fi5w15U Cathy]]"(f/[[Music/{{Enigma}} Sandra]]) and "[[https://youtu.be/k58nHCFbfYw® C'est la vie]]"(f/Susanne Kemmler).

* Music/RickAstley, famous for his deep soulful baritone voice, dueted with Lisa Stanfield 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".

* Music/RickAstley, famous for his deep soulful baritone voice, dueted with Lisa Stanfield on "When You Gonna", and Music/KylieMinogue on a medley of his "Never Gonna Give You Up" and her "I Should Be So Lucky".

* "[[Music/TheRollingStones Gimme Shelter]]". Merry Clayton is the female vocalist.

* Early 80s, postmodern Matia Bazar does this occasionally: you have Antonella Ruggiero's refined soprano harmonizing with Carlo Marrale's brassy, earthly voice (Fantasia) or dueting with Giancarlo Golzi's scat singing (Sulla Scia). More notable live (e.g. Live in Munich 1987 and the Mèlo tour 1987), where Golzi will sometimes go entirely bananas with the scat.

* Music/KateBush used it in 1985 with "Waking the Witch". In this case, she provided both voices: one track is her natural voice, the other is a drastically slowed down demonic growl.

* German synthpop group Masquerade, fronted by singer Drafi Deutscher, sang both the high and low pitch vocals in 1984's "Guardian Angel".

* Tristania. This is somewhat unique in being a three-part version, combining female vocals, clean male vocals and death growls.

* Subverted by Music/CradleOfFilth with their cover of Heaven 17's "Temptation" (which played this trope straight). While the male vocalist uses a harsh raspy tone (fitting the trope), his female co-singer (Dirty Harry) breaks traditional having an aggressive, almost evil tone to her voice that occasionally transitions into an aggressive roar. In other words instead of beauty and the beast, we have evil witch and the beast.

* Music/DreamTheater arguably uses a modified, three-part male version, with lead singer singing soprano through tenor on much of the music, the guitarist singing the occasional detached tenor phrase (beauty and the ghost?) and the drummer doing everything from falsetto to shouting to tenor back-up. (Beauty and the shapechanger?)

* Another good example of the same thing is Ukrainian prog-death/djent band Jinjer and it's vocalist Tatiana Shmailyuk, who does growl and clean vocals without a hitch.

* Music/{{Motorhead}} and Music/{{Girlschool}} qualify anytime they collaborate. I mean, voices don't come much more gravely and raspy then Lemmy's, especially when compared to Kelly Johnson's smoother voice on their collaborative version of "Please Don't Touch".

* Soilwork's Bjorn Strid alternates between smooth clean vocals and screams. He can pull of death growls, too, but rarely is heard doing it.

* Battlecross mixes shriek-y highs with low bellows more along the lines of [[Music/NapalmDeath Barney Greenway's]] vocals than those of their fellow Michiganders in the entry right above this one.

* 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.

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

* {{Music/Swans}} is another example. Michael Gira, with a dull monotone and Jarboe, with operatic soprano, alternate lead vocals for different songs (although Gira leads in most of the songs). In some cases, they record different versions of the same song, with Gira singing in one version and Jarboe singing in another.

* 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]].

* Music/PeterGabriel's done this trope on more than one occasion; with Music/KateBush in "Don't Give Up", Music/SineadOConnor in "Blood of Eden" and (in a male-male example) African vocalist Youssou N'Dour in "In Your Eyes". His live album "Secret World" features Paula Cole ("Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?", "[[Series/DawsonCreek I Don't Want to Wait]]") doing back-up vocals for the whole concert.
* A Skylit Drive does this with frontman Michael "Jag" Jagmin's high pitched, ambiguously female-sounding voice, and bassist Brian White's guttural growls.

* Variations turn up with Music/{{Eminem}}, as he's often rapping in a CreepyHighPitchedVoice. When he has softer-sounding women singing his hooks, they're usually lower voiced than him.

* An entire album long example is found in ''Lovage: Music to Make Love To Your Old Lady By'', with Music/MikePatton and Jennifer Charles of The Elysian Fields singing duets on every track. Bonus: The album is produced by Dan the Automator. In live performances, they also tended to cover "I'm Real" by Jennifer Lopez and Ja Rule, which already fit this trope... and subverted expectations by having Mike Patton take Jennifer Lopez's part while Jennifer Charles took Ja Rule's.

* In Anais Mitchell's ''Theatre/{{Hadestown}}'', Persephone is sung by Music/AniDiFranco and Hades is sung by folk singer Greg Brown. Particularly apparent in their duet "How Long", but also appears with Mitchell (as Eurydice) and Brown in "Hey Little Songbird", with Brown's voice often coming out as a literal growl. Eva Noblezada and Patrick Page (the original Broadway performers) are also a great example.

* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' opens each day with a dream sequence in which your Ancient Reptilian Brain and Limbic System talk to you. Ancient Reptilian Brain has about the gruffest voice ever, and Limbic System talks in a gasping, high pitched voice. When you sing karaoke, you can have either Ancient Reptilian Brain do it (in a growling spoken word piece, as a sort of pastiche of Music/TomWaits), or Limbic System take over (in a wheedling, off-key falsetto).

* Befitting the other musical motifs in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', Chris Sutherland's VoiceGrunting for the title duo features warm and jovial guffaws for Banjo's voice, and guttural squawks for Kazooie.

* In some of Music/JohannSebastianBach' s cantatas, there are duets consisting of a soprano (a soul) and a bass (the Vox Christi, or the voice of Jesus). Usually, the soprano part is sung by an adult woman, but occasionally a child singer may take up the soprano part. One example of this soprano-and-bass duet can be found in the third movement of J.S. Bach's cantata ''Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme'' (BWV 140). As noted on the CallAndResponseSong entry for the cantata, this movement consists of a call-and-response structure.

* "Land of Roses" by Suicide Commando feat. Charlotte Nuytens is a rare aggrotech/hellektro {{industrial}} example.

A distinctive vocal style that appears, oddly enough, in both symphonic metal and "club" or "dance"-style music, particularly in groups from Europe. One singer is a woman, frequently [[InnocentSoprano a childlike soprano]], while another is a man with a [[GutturalGrowler deep, gravelly voice]]. They will either sing alternating lines, or one will predominate while the other performs a counterpoint to the first's melodic line, sometimes in a format similar to traditional call-and-response.

* Italian duo Music/{{La Rappresentante Di Lista}} enjoyed great success at the beginning of the 2020s, with a few multiplatinum singles beautifully sung by the classically trained Veronica Lucchesi. But Dario Mangiaracina's gravelly, raw vocals are a staple of the band's live shows.

* Italian duo La Rappresentante Di Lista enjoyed great success at the beginning of the 2020s, with a few multiplatinum singles beautifully sung by the classically trained Veronica Lucchesi. But Dario Mangiaracina's gravelly, raw vocals are a staple of the band's live shows.

* "Steal My Sunshine" by LEN, a band led by a [[BandOfRelatives brother-sister duo]] from Canada (the band is just down to the siblings now, but at the time included other members, particularly [[Music/BrokenSocialScene Brendan Canning]]). The song is memorable not only for its bouncy hook ([[SampledUp borrowed from Andrea True]]) and [[IndecipherableLyrics indecipherable]] but probably [[LyricalDissonance depressing]] lyrics, but for the contrast between the brother's raspy, wheezy vocals and the sister's sugar-sweet, delicate vocals.

** In Flames has a particularly shining example with their collab song with Music/{{Pendulum}}, "Self vs Self". Pendulum vocalist Rob Swire sings highly melodically and polarly contrasts with Anders Friden's mid-range death growls.

* Dutch SymphonicMetal group Music/{{Delain}} tends to have lead vocalist Charlotte Wessels sing in clean soprano, and whenever a song requires harsh vocals, a guest vocalist (or, in the case of April Rain, ex-guitarist Ronald Landa) steps in (See the tracks "Tragedy of the Commons" and "Hands of Gold" for a guest spot for Music/AlissaWhiteGluz). Also, once or twice an album she does a duet with Marco Hietala, known for doing this in his usual gig as part of Music/{{Nightwish}}. Charlotte herself has also provided harsh vocals on occasion.

* Music/{{Nightwish}}, arguably the biggest act in SymphonicMetal, used this from day one. "Beauty and the Beast" from their debut album has founder and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen growling opposite Music/TarjaTurunen's operatic soprano. It has become a fixture of the band's songs since bassist-vocalist Marco Hietala joined the band, though unusually for the trope he tends to favor a MetalScream style. Sometimes {{inverted}} since Floor Jansen took over as lead vocalist in 2012: the chorus of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtXqUNB8zrU "Yours Is an Empty Hope"]] has ''Floor'' growling (using the technique she developed for Music/{{ReVamp}}) and ''Marco'' providing clean vocals.

* Danish pop duo [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy-Box Toy-Box]]

* The 1970s pop group [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boney_M Boney M]] may have been the progenitors of this sound with several of their singles, such as the song [[http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=boney+m+rasputin&search=Search "Rasputin"]].
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Jack_%28band%29 Captain Jack]].
* Music/KateBush used it in 1985 with "Waking The Witch". In this case, she provided both voices: one track is her natural voice, the other is a drastically slowed down demonic growl.

* Music/MassiveAttack have worked with Shara Nelson, Tracey Thorn, Nicolette, Sara Jay, Elizabeth Fraser, Music/SineadOConnor, etc.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_McCoy_%28band%29 Real McCoy]]
* Jennifer Warnes duetting with Music/JoeCocker on "Up Where We Belong" and then later with Bill Medley on "Time of My Life".

* An example where the male and female roles are inverted: Aretha Franklin and George Michael's "I Knew You Were Waiting".
* Another GenderFlip: "What Have I Done To Deserve This?" by Music/PetShopBoys and Dusty Springfield. Dusty, already famed for her low, sultry voice, had a noticeably rougher edge to her voice after years of smoking and sang the low part alongside Neil Tennant's boyish, nasal tenor. Likewise, the re-recording of "West End Girls" features contralto backing vocals by Helena Springs.

* The eminently {{Camp}}y Gunther does this ''all the damn time''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eyGLtT4b3o See]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbYtqAWDF2U&feature=related for]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbYtqAWDF2U yourself]].
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_Factory_%28band%29 Fun Factory]].
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bouche La Bouche]].
* Tom Jones and The Cardigans' version of ''Burning Down the House''.

* Gender-swapped in Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse's duet of "Body and Soul;" Tony is actually the soprano in this case.

* For Was (Not Was), this was best exemplified on "Walk the Dinosaur," with Sir Harry Bowles and Sweet Pea Atkinson, respectively, in these roles (both also a case of VocalDissonance).

* Music/{{Evanescence}} did this with their breakthrough single "Bring Me To Life" which contrasts Amy Lee's icy voice with Paul [=McCoy=] (of 12 Stones)'s more traditional rocker style.

* Music/PeterGabriel's done this trope on more than one occasion; with Music/KateBush in "Don't Give Up", Sinead [=O'Connor=] in "Blood of Eden" and (in a male-male example) African vocalist Youssou [=NDour=] in "In Your Eyes". His live album "Secret World" features Paula Cole ("Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?") doing back-up vocals for the whole concert.

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

* Music/JohnnyCash did this quite a bit. First off, any time he sang with June Carter. Second, there are many many songs on a number of the American Recordings albums with much smoother female vocalists (e.g. Field of Diamonds, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Father and Son, maybe a few others?)

* Sarah Brightman does this in a lot of her earlier duets. Mostly the ones with Chris Thompson.

* "Haunted", performed by Shane [=MacGowan=] and Sinéad O'Connor (or Cait O'Riordan, depending on the recorded version). Less Soprano And gravel and more like "Soprano & Rusted Pig-Iron". And, above, with his duet with Nick Cave.

* Music/{{Queen}} does this from time to time, especially with their more operatic songs like "Bohemian Rhapsody" from ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera'' and "Seven Seas of Rhye"; with lead singer Freddie Mercury alternating between a harsh, growling tenor and a clean, piercing falsetto.

* Grand Funk Railroad: Don Brewer (gravel), Mark Farner (soprano).

* An entire album long example is found in Lovage: Music to Make Love To Your Old Lady By, with Music/MikePatton and Jennifer Charles of The Elysian Fields singing duets on every track. Bonus: The album is produced by Dan the Automator. In live performances, they also tended to cover "I'm Real" by Jennifer Lopez and Ja Rule, which already fit this trope... and subverted expectations by having Mike Patton take Jennifer Lopez's part while Jennifer Charles took Ja Rule's.

* {{Music/Chicago}} original members Terry Kath(gravel)and Peter Cetera(near-falsetto), particularly on "In The Country" and "Dialogue."

* Rod Stewart's "Every Picture Tells a Story." Stewart has a pretty high voice, but he is the gravel when he duets with soprano Maggie Bell on the song.

* Vandal Moon's "Boy Drinks Girl" pairs soprano guest vocalist Nicollette Vaughn (of Nico & Grey) with deep baritone lead singer Blake Voss.

* Progressive 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.

* Another good example of the same thing is Ukrainian prog-deth/djent band Jinjer and it's vocalist Tatiana Shmailyuk who perfectly does growl and clean vocals.
* Music/ThreeInchesOfBlood again uses two males, one with a Halfordesque high-pitched scream and cry. While the other uses a very throaty hardcore growl and snarl.

* [=iwrestledabearonce=] does it with one singer, a woman who does the growling, and then in the middle of a song will switch to more traditional singing (usually on a single syllable).

* The ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' short ''WesternAnimation/IHaventGotAHat'' has this in its title song sung by the twin puppies Ham and Ex.

* ''WesternAnimation/IHaventGotAHat'' has this in its title song sung by the twin puppies Ham and Ex.

* Music/{{Squeeze}}'s Glenn Tillbrook and Chris Difford.

* Music/{{Queen}} has macho tenor Freddie paired with the much smoother-voiced Brian May.

* Music/{{Ill Nino}}'s Cristian Machado is another one-man example. He tends to use several voices rather than just two. He usually alternates between his distinct clean vocals and his signature mid-pitched screams but is also heard doing a whisper-like voice, rap-like speaking vocals, and even lower-pitched growls among others.

* Faith Assembly gender flip this trope on several tracks such as "[[https://youtu.be/s0eA1bCpWcQ Redemption]]", where tenor Mark Stacy duets with contralto Leigh Bailey.