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6A distinctive vocal style that appears, oddly enough, in both [[SymphonicMetal 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 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.
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8In symphonic metal or heavy metal, the girl may be replaced by another male singing with a clear tenor or falsetto.
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10Another form of this trope is having the verses screamed or growled and the chorus sung, either by one vocalist or two alternating vocalists. The inversion, having sung verses and a screamed/growled chorus isn't unheard of either. This style is most common in {{Metalcore}}, harder NuMetal and AlternativeMetal, some GrooveMetal, some MelodicDeathMetal, and occasionally BlackMetal.
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12This also happens quite a bit in HipHop and R&B, when a gritty hardcore rapper with a raspy voice performs a duet with a silky songbird, either with her singing the chorus in his song or him [[AWildRapperAppears dropping a verse or two]] in hers. [[note]]Or both. Many collaborations between rappers and singers are of the "Appear in my song and I'll appear in yours" variety.[[/note]]
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14The gravelly male/soprano female combo is usually referred to as "Beauty and the Beast" in the symphonic/gothic metal scene. In this case, the male vocals are usually of the "extreme metal" variety. Finally, it can occasionally work within a dual harsh vocal context, with one person having a low grunt and the other having a higher rasp or howl.
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16This trope is arguably the musical equivalent to UglyGuyHotWife or OddCouple, especially when the singers ''look'' like what their voices imply (though this isn't guaranteed).
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24* An example where the male and female roles are inverted: Music/ArethaFranklin and Music/GeorgeMichael's "I Knew You Were Waiting".
25* The finale of Music/{{AURORA|Singer}}'s "It Happened Quiet" and parts of "Churchyard" back her ethereal soprano voice with a deep men's choir.
26* Music/{{Aqua}} are the TropeCodifier for dance-pop music. Lene sings in a smooth voice that's sometimes ludicrously high-pitched, while René has a deep, rough singing voice. See their SignatureSong "Barbie Girl", for example.
27* The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9B3USSX32I Killer]]", by Italian artists Baby K and Tiziano Ferro, is an example. Baby K has a high voice, Tiziano Ferro has an ultra-low voice, and they duet in a call-and-response way.
28* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDNMstjuCbY Bingo Boys]]
29* Blue Amazon have "[[https://youtu.be/IxvzwvWgnXA Searching]]", featuring Vicky Webb and Danny Campbell.
30* The 1970s pop group [[https://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"]].
31* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bouche La Bouche]].
32* Music/BritneySpears in "Big Fat Bass" with will.i.am. Lampshaded with the lyrics being "I can be treble, you can be the bass".
33* Bronski Beat's cover of Music/DonnaSummer's "I Feel Love" has a duet remix featuring baritone [[Music/SoftCell Marc Almond]] alongside falsettist Jimmy Somerville.
34** Jimmy Somerville also provides a gender-flipped example in the Communards as he was often paired with singing partner Sarah Jane Morris, whose deep contralto was a stark contrast to his voice.
35* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXYl-ouceY0 Captain Hollywood Project]] ([[MisattributedSong often confused with the Real McCoy]]).
36* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Jack_%28band%29 Captain Jack]].
37* Euro-techno act East Beat Syndicate featured soprano lead Regi Gedeon against gravel-voiced rapper Eran Ginzburg.
38* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Rotic E-ROTIC]]
39* 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"]].
40* Faith Assembly gender flip this trope on"[[https://youtu.be/s0eA1bCpWcQ Redemption]]", where Leigh Bailey sings in a lower register than frontman Mark Stacy, but play it straight on most other tracks.
41* Faithless paired gravel rapper Maxi Jazz with soprano songbird Music/{{Dido}} on "[[https://youtu.be/_eOWzapVFr0 One Step Too Far]]".
42* On Music/Front242's ''5:22:9:12 OFF'' album, guest vocalist Christine Kowalski sang both the gravel and the soprano parts, although Jean-Luc de Meyer also did gravel vocals on a few tracks.
43* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_Factory_%28band%29 Fun Factory]].
44* Gigi D'Agostino's signature song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD0Mm6WIcYs "L'amour Toujours (I'll Fly With You)"]], alternates between a childish-sounding female soprano and the baritone-voiced Gigi.
45* Music/{{Gorillaz}}: "Iss cummin' oop, iss cummin' oop, iss cummin' oop, iss DARE!"
46* 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]].
47* Hayley Stewart ([[TheBandMinusTheFace later Florence Bullock]]) and Jared Nickerson of the {{dark| wave}} UsefulNotes/{{synthwave}} band [[https://deadastronauts.bandcamp.com/ Dead Astronauts]].
48* Swedish soprano ionnalee, AKA Jonna Lee of Music/{{iamamiwhoami}}, duets with the smoky-voiced Jamie Irrepressible on "Dunes of Sand", and the aforementioned TR/ST on "Harvest".
49* [[ItaloDisco Italo Hi-NRG]] artist Mike Mareen is a one-man example, alternating between bass-baritone and countertenor, although actual female backing vocalists have occasionally been used.
50* Gender-inverted in both the original "[[https://youtu.be/7JmKYsVpSMc If You Leave Me Now]]" by Jaya feat. Stevie B., and its [[https://youtu.be/9q479Lw_u30 remake]] by Stevie B. feat. Alexia Philips.
51* Jennifer Warnes duetting with Music/JoeCocker on "[[Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman Up Where We Belong]]" and then later with Bill Medley on "[[Film/DirtyDancing Time of My Life]]".
52** Not to mention with Music/LeonardCohen on "Joan of Arc" from ''Music/SongsOfLoveAndHate'' and pretty much any of his more recent albums.
53* Music/{{Jojo}} in her duet with Jordan Gatsby called "What You Like". Soprano and Bass.
54* 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.
55* 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 (singer Chrissi Poland).
56* "Steal My Sunshine" by LEN, a band led by a [[BandOfRelatives brother-sister duo]] from Canada (the band is just down to the siblings, Mark and Sharon Costanzo, 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 Mark's raspy, wheezy vocals and Sharon's sugar-sweet, delicate vocals.
57* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_(band) Lime]].
58* A bizarre example is the [[https://www.bubblegumdancer.com/104-Loco_Loco/project/ Loco Loco]] comedic dance music project, starring CG characters: a big burly man with a fairly deep voice tormented by two mosquitoes, actually male singers whose voices are unnaturally high-pitched thanks to electronic effects.
59* Londonbeat's "I've Been Thinking About You" has a duet remake in this style with Fragma lead singer Damae, who is a {{Moe}} soprano, in contrast with the rough soul voice of Jimmy Helms.
60* German synthpop group Masquerade, fronted by singer Drafi Deutscher, sang both the high and low-pitch vocals in 1984's "Guardian Angel".
61* Music/MassiveAttack have worked with Shara Nelson, [[Music/EverythingButTheGirl Tracey Thorn]], Nicolette, Sara Jay, Elizabeth Fraser, Music/SineadOConnor, etc.
62* 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.
63* The doujin circle NJK Records has 3L and maria♂polo, who duet on the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' remixes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mniBQmXDEI "Last Moments"]] and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCubA3oltGM WARNING!]]".
64* Another GenderFlip: "What Have I Done To Deserve This?" by Music/PetShopBoys and Music/DustySpringfield. 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.
65* Porcelain Black (AKA Porcelain and the Tramps) is a one-woman example. She alternates between a clear voice and a guttural voice in most of her songs.
66** Porcelain Black and Jeffree Star's "Prisoner" is an interesting take on this. Porcelain's part is raspy but very high-pitched. Jeffree's part is in a clear, but deep, voice.
67* 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 delicate Veronica Lucchesi. But Dario Mangiaracina's gravelly, raw vocals are a staple of the band's live shows.
68* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_McCoy_%28band%29 Real McCoy]]
69* Music/RickAstley, famous for his deep soulful baritone voice, dueted with Lisa Fabien 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".
70* The Music/ScissorSisters.
71* Late '80s/early '90s duo Shakespears Sister was an all-female example, featuring Marcella Detroit's very high soprano and Siobhan Fahey's low growl. Mocked mercilessly in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjvHl_q1ohI sketch]] by Series/TheMaryWhitehouseExperience, in which Siobhan's voice was replaced by a ship's foghorn.
72* An early example can be found on Mr. Rainbow, a 1974 track off Music/CasablancaMoon by Music/SlappHappy. Some parts are sung in a very coarse voice by Peter Blegvad, the others in a mellow childlike voice by Dagmar Krause.
73* Music/{{Squeeze|Band}}'s Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, respectively; it's never hard to tell who sings what.
74* The [[https://youtu.be/KzuChQxM0SE title track]] of Systems in Blue's ''Out of the Blue'' features an uncredited soprano guest backing the gravel-voiced male lead.
75* Surveillance, a side project of Assemblage 23's Tom Shear, has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWK2FkHteVk "Husk"]], featuring soprano Mari Kattman against Shear's signature husky vocals.
76** As the singer of the [[TooGoodToLast short-lived]] duo Day Twelve, Kattman performed both clean and gravel vocals.
77* Music/{{Tatu}}. Lena was the soprano while Yulia's raspy screaming often made this sound to their music. This is most evident in "Not Gonna Get Us" and "Prostye Dvizheniya."
78* Music/TomJones and Music/TheCardigans' version of ''Burning Down the House''.
79* Gender-swapped in Tony Bennett and Music/AmyWinehouse's duet of "Body and Soul;" Tony is actually the soprano in this case.
80** In most other cases, Tony Bennett is normally the gravel. To name one example, his duet with Music/LadyGaga on the album "Cheek to Cheek".
81* Danish pop duo [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy-Box Toy-Box]].
82* Trip-hop forerunner [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricky Tricky]] has frequently collaborated with delicate-voiced Martina Topley-Bird.
83* TR/ST's sophomore album, 'Joyland' is full of these, especially songs like "Rescue, Mister", "Lost Souls/Eelings" and "Joyland". But, in this case, Robert Alfons (the man behind TR/ST) sings both Soprano and Gravel. His first album had an actual female vocalist, Maya Postepski, but she left afterwards to focus on her main band, Austra.
84* For Music/WasNotWas, 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).
85* An all-male example is Music/WildBeasts, who are fronted by the VocalTagTeam of falsettoist Hayden Thorpe and baritone Tom Fleming.
86* German {{darkwave}} duo X-O-Planet, consisting of angelic soprano Manja Kaletka and demonic basso Goderic Northstar, duet in this fashion on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LveOOq1yT5A "Passengers"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcN6fG0JG6w "Remember"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYBWW0VXubY "Vice Versa"]].
87* Music/TheXX is a {{Downplayed|Trope}} example, as Remy is an alto rather than a soprano, but her breathy voice is still a sharp contrast to Oliver's deep, gravelly baritone voice.
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91* The sung version of Music/{{Apocalyptica}}'s song "Bittersweet" [[PlayingWithTropes plays with the trope]] by way of guest vocalists Ville Valo from H.I.M. and Lauri Ylönen from Music/TheRasmus): both are male, and Lauri's higher tenor voice is actually the graveled one in comparison to Ville's velvet-smooth bass. It makes an interesting effect when Ville suddenly slides up into the same range as Lauri.
92* Atargatis. However while the main vocalist Stephanie Luzie never changed her operatic voice male growls were present in their demo and first [=EPs=], while their two [=LPs=] featured instead cleaner male voices.
93* Music/{{Ayreon}} occasionally uses this; for example, "The Sixth Extinction" has Jonas Renske (Katatonia) growling and Floor Jansen (After Forever) in operatic mode singing the same lyrics.
94* Music/{{Battlelore}} goes with a female clean singer and a male harsh singer for pretty much every song.
95* Music/CelticFrost has occasionally used this, most notably on their comeback album ''Monotheist''.
96* {{Subverted|Trope}} 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 tradition by 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.
97** But they play it straight in any song where Sarah provides vocal parts, and in the title track of "Nymphetamine".
98** Actually, one could argue that they've used this style for a long time: the lead vocals often scream like a harpy/little girl. Example: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd-9GK2YlVE Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids]] in the first half-minute (after the introduction).
99* Music/TheDarkElement normally avoids this, with the men usually simply singing harmony to Music/AnetteOlzon (when they sing at all). However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eidS1nyQB50 "Dead to Me"]] includes a few moments of Music/{{Epica}}-esque roars from guest vocalist Niilo Sevänen.
100* 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|Band}}. Charlotte herself has also provided harsh vocals on occasion.
101* Swedish BigBand-[[AvantGardeMetal metal]] group Music/DiabloSwingOrchestra will occasionally incorporate growly male vocals with classically-trained female operatic soprano lead vocalist.
102* Nusic/DimmuBorgir 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'').
103* Draconian.
104* Evilion uses one female vocalist performing cleans, and another performing growls.
105* Music/FleshgodApocalypse has bassist Paolo Rossi's clean vocals contrasting with lead vocalist/guitarist Tommaso Riccardi's death growls.
106* Giant Squid is an interesting example because the female vocalists always do somewhat soothing/operatic vocals, while Aaron Gregory switches between equally operatic and harsh vocals throughout the songs.
107* Music/{{Kamelot}}'s ''Epica'' (which came before the band) and ''The Black Halo'' do this with only one person. The lead singer, Roy Khan, sings in an operatic voice to represent the Faustian character, Ariel, and a considerably harsher, more distorted, and altogether creepier voice to represent Mephisto.
108** The Mephisto voice on ''The Black Halo'', but not ''Epica'', is actually Shagrath of Dimmu Borgir (Snowy Shaw of a million and a half different bands in the live version found on ''One Cold Winter's Night''.)
109** In further support of the trope, the Helena character is sung by guitarist Thomas Youngblood's wife, Mari.
110** 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'', Melissa Bonny (Ad Infinitum) on ''The Awakening''), while Tommy sings cleanly.
111* Music/LacunaCoil
112* L'Âme Immortelle.
113* Lacrimosa.
114* Mark Jansen has performed this style with two bands, with Music/AfterForever opposite Floor Jansen (soprano), and since 2002 with Music/{{Epica}}'s Simone Simons (mezzo).
115* Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}, 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.
116* Music/{{ReVamp}}'s second (and final) album ''Wild Card'' has an interesting case of a soprano vocalist bringing her own gravel: Floor Jansen learned to [[HarshVocals growl]] like [[Music/ArchEnemy Angela Gossow]] at some point after their 2011 debut. A good example is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADxb6z1Pu3c "Precibus"]], in which Floor sings the verses in operatic style, the chorus in her normal rock-singing voice, and the bridges in a growl.
117* Music/{{Septicflesh}} mixes Spiros Antoniou's harsh vocals with Sotiris Vayenas' cleans.
118* Music/TheatreOfTragedy was the Trope Codifier of soprano girl/grunting man. Music/ParadiseLost and Music/TheGathering had done this before, but Theatre of Tragedy was the first to make it popular. [=ToT=] lost the "beauty & the beast" vocals with the album "Aegis" and has been exploring other styles since then. Vocalist Liv Kristine later started Music/LeavesEyes with her then-husband, Alexander Krull of Music/{{Atrocity}}, in 2003, and then was fired from [=ToT=] a couple of years later. Kristine and Krull divorced in 2016 and she left Leaves' Eyes as well, to be replaced by Elina Siirala.
119* Music/{{Therion}} indulges into this very heavily on their 2012 "Les Fleurs du Mal" album, with new singer Lori Lewis going into the high-pitched Castafiore-type operatic register, while Thomas Vikström sings in a usual growling metal voice. (They are even listed as "Soprano" and "Tenor" in the line-up, respectively!)
120* Tristania. This is somewhat unique in being a three-part version, combining female vocals, clean male vocals, and death growls.
121** Sirenia (though this is not surprising as they are a spin-off group of the above).
122* Music/WithinTemptation:
123** "Enter" only.
124** The bonus track "Jane Doe".
125** "Our Solemn Hour", "Silver Moonlight", and in "What Have You Done?" with a guest vocalist.
126** Rapper Music/{{Xzibit}} features as the "gravel" half of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awvqIi427_A And We Run]]".
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130* 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.
131* Music/AetherRealm's LeadBassist Vince Jones can switch-hit between cleans and harshes at will, with guitarist Heinrich Arnold providing backing cleans.
132* Music/TheAgonist, due to Alissa White-Gluz' ability to sing both clean and growling vocals.
133* Arkona's Maria Arkhipova performs both by herself.
134* Music/{{Amaranthe}} has a harsh singer, a female clean singer ''and'' a male clean singer.
135* Music/{{Amorphis}} has employed this style ever since ''Elegy'', formerly with guitarist Tomi Koivusaari doing harsh vocals and former vocalist Pasi Koskinen doing clean vocals. As of 2005 their current vocalist Tomi Joutsen performs both.
136* Music/AsILayDying has the lead vocalist with deathlike growls and their bassist with clean vocals.
137* Battlecross mixes shrieky 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.
138* Music/{{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.
139** A similar effect is achieved live, with Orion and Seth (bassist and rhythm guitarist) providing backup vocals. Three armour-clad dudes doing death growls in unison. It is somewhat intimidating.
140* Music/BetweenTheBuriedAndMe's Tommy Rogers does both by himself, although he usually does the harsh singing and uses his clean voice to soften certain parts of the song. His cleans became more prevalent during and after the ''Colors'' era.
141* [[Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder The Black Dahlia Murder's]] lead vocalist, Trevor Strnad, pulls off both shrieking and guttural death growls. Rhythm guitarist Brian Eschbach provides both when doing backing vocals.
142* Music/BlindGuardian has done this sort of thing on occasion, usually without hiring extra vocalists.
143** In other words, their singer has about a four-octave range and does everything from clear singing to very harsh, almost growled vocals, though the rough/clear changes aren't always related to the low/high changes.
144** Hansi Kursch is the Creator/FrankWelker of singers. The entire vocal section of A Night at the Opera consists of him and four sparsely used choir vocalists.
145* Blood Stain Child, especially as of Epsilon, contrasting bassist Ryo's death growls with (former) vocalist Sophia's clean female vocals. They seem set to continue this trend with the addition of female vocalist Kiki, who was in part chosen due to her ability to handle both screams and clean vocals.
146* Music/CattleDecapitation is an interesting case; while Travis Ryan does use clean vocals, they are NOT your standard clear-cut melodic ones; his are more of a nasally screech that serve less to provide a counter to the harsh vocals and more to create a feeling of unease, as they're VERY unnerving. "Kingdom of Tyrants" is the closest you'll come to traditional cleans, and those are still more in the vein of abrasive post-punk.
147* Music/{{Chimaira}} occasionally does this. While most of their songs feature mainly screamed vocals, sometimes Mark Hunter will throw in some melodic lines in a drastically different voice than he usually performs with.
148* Progressive death metal band Music/{{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.
149* Asagi from Music/{{D}} is another one-man example of this trope--one of the distinctive features of the band's music is his ability to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvs6GcacLtU switch between]] his regular clean vocals, HarshVocals, and his strong falsetto.
150* Music/{{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.
151* Music/{{Deftones}}' Chino Moreno alternates between ear-piercing screeches and soothing, tenor clean vocals that, [[PerishingAltRockVoice due to the style]], aren't that easy to understand.
152* Music/DemonHunter has pretty much made a name for themselves using this style. Long before it was fashionable, they combined melodic choruses with screamed verses. Most of their songs feature this formula.
153* D'espairs Ray's singer HIZUMI is an example of a Beauty and the Beast version, interestingly all on his lonesome - much of the band's sound focuses on his ability to switch from fiercely raw growling to an achingly smooth clean singing voice at the drop of a hat.
154* 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, almost every single voice on the album was ONE GUY.[[note]]Except for the Omnidimensional Creator and the narrator.[[/note]]
155* Music/DirEnGrey does this with one guy as well. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to a man by the name of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORHFIJTRw0M Kyo]]. This man can do death growls, screams, clean vocals, shrieks, bellows, you name it; [[ManOfAThousandVoices he can do everything]].
156* Disarmonia Mundi does it with growler Claudio and clean singer Ettore. And then there's former member and occasional guest vocalist Speed from Music/{{Soilwork}}, who uses ''both'' harsh and clean singing, resulting in a quite beautiful vocal mess.
157* Death/sludge metal band Disbelief has singer Karsten Jäger, who alternates between John Tardy-esque tortured growls, SpokenWordInMusic, and a gothic metal-style baritone.
158* In a rare case of both the higher and lower voices being sung by the same man, this effect was used by David Draiman of Music/{{Disturbed}} to tell the story behind "Down with the Sickness", seamlessly switching between the melodic but sombre 'human' side and the violent monster slowly rising to the surface. The song occasionally has Draiman move between the personas in the course of a single phrase. ('''it seems yo'''u're having some trouble / in dealing with these '''changes''' / living with these '''changes''')
159* On Music/{{Dragonforce}}'s third album "Inhuman Rampage", Herman and Sam's former bandmate "Behemoth" from Demoniac provides backing black metal screams and growls on several of the band's songs.
160* DRAGONLAND on their album Astronomy.
161* 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?)
162** The song that best fits the duet dynamic, though, is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkF4JD2rO3Q The Dark Eternal Night]].
163* This is the dominant style of Music/{{Eluveitie}}'s newer albums.
164* Music/{{Elvenking}}, on their debut album, regularly used a TenorAndGravel style, their original bassist Jarpen being able to produce death metal style growls. ''Seasonspeech'', what is considered their best song, combined this with two different female vocal styles - one a delicate soprano as described in this trope, and the other an alto. Jarpen left the band after that first album, and Elvenking still hasn't recovered.
165* Music/{{Ensiferum}} uses the double male singer variant. One guitarist uses a mid-ranged rasp, while the other uses a very manly-sounding tenor.
166* Music/FearFactory have made the one-man version their signature.
167* God Forbid does it with two guys. Lead vocalist Byron Davis performs the screams/growls, while other members, usually guitarist Dallas Coyle, perform the clean vocals.
168* Music/{{Hacktivist}} has two sopranos and one gravel, all male. Rappers Jermaine "J" Hurley and Ben Marvin can contrast between the former's clean rapping with the latter's harsh rapping and screaming, while guitarist Tim "Timfy James" Beazley can come in and sing clean vocals for more contrast and/or to deliver a chorus.
169* Music/TheHaloEffect's frontman Mikael Stanne normally sings purely with HarshVocals, but on "In Broken Trust" and "A Truth Worth Lying For" he sings the refrains in clean baritone.
170* Another good example of the same thing is Ukrainian prog-death/djent band Music/{{Jinjer}} and its vocalist Tatiana Shmailyuk, who does growl and clean vocals without a hitch.
171* [=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).
172* Music/IllNino'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.
173* Music/InFlames and Music/DarkTranquillity have both experimented with this when having guest vocalists on their songs.
174** In Flames has a particularly shining example with their collab song with Music/{{Pendulum|Band}}, "Self vs Self". Pendulum vocalist Rob Swire sings highly melodically and polarly contrasts with Anders Friden's mid-range death growls.
175* Music/{{Issues}} contrasts the smooth, poppy RAndB (and occasionally rapping) vocals of Tyler Carter with the harsh, aggressive screaming of Michael Bohn.
176* [[Music/{{Metallica}} James Hetfield]] provides a single-artist version on "Unforgiven". He growls the verse in his usual HarshVocals but sings the chorus with a clean and clear tenor.
177* Maria Brink from Music/InThisMoment does both by herself as well.
178* Music/{{Insomnium}} does this on many songs, layering guitarist Ville Friman's clean vocals with lead vocalist Nillo Sevanen's death growls.
179* Music/KillswitchEngage popularized the use of this trope in metalcore.
180* Music/KingDiamond is the patron saint and ur-example of this trope in another one-singer case, combining harsh semi-growly vocals with extremely girly falsetto vocals as early as the first Mercyful Fate album in 1983, and continuing to do so for all of his career till present. Some of his latest albums also contain actual female vocals.
181* Music/{{KMFDM}}'s male vocals are usually either [[HarshVocals guttural or distorted]], while the female vocalists sing clean.
182* The French electro-{{industrial metal}} duo Krystal System.
183* Australian {{deathcore}} band Music/MakeThemSuffer has lead vocalist Sean Harmanis, who does all the {{harsh vocals}} and death growls, while keyboardist Louisa Burton provides light female vocals in contrast.
184* Manilla Road's vocal style alternates between [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Orc (rough, low, and heavy) and Blood Elf (high and clear)]].
185* Music/{{Megadeth}}: Dave Mustaine used layering to achieve a similar effect in the song Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! He sang it in a low register and then in a high register, and put them together. Don't ask him to sing live, unless you really want to be disappointed. Played straight with their remake of "A Tout Le Monde", which had Dave collaborating with Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil.
186** Mustaine also used a sort of Gravel and Sharp Bed of Rocks in the end verse of Five Magics, where he sang in his normal singing voice and then in an even sharper growl.
187*** The growl was originally done by bassist David Ellefson but the remaster replaced his vocals with Mustaine's.
188* Music/{{Motorhead}} and Music/{{Girlschool}} qualify anytime they collaborate. I mean, voices don't come much more gravely and raspy than Lemmy's, especially when compared to Kelly Johnson's smoother voice on their collaborative version of "Please Don't Touch".
189* Chad Gray, lead singer of Music/{{Mudvayne}}, typically switches between a melodic PerishingAltRockVoice, a raspier singing voice, and a harsh roar.
190* Australian ProgressiveMetal band Music/NeObliviscaris are an interesting case in that, since they have two vocalists, they frequently have the soprano element overlaid with the gravel. Most non-GothicMetal metal bands that use this trope use one at a time.
191* Music/{{Nonpoint}} is a strange example. Vocalist Elias Soriano alternates between harshly rapped vocals, screaming, smooth clean singing, edgy clean singing, and fast R&B style delivery. Whether he does it in a whole song or for one word depends on whatever mood the band is in.
192* Onmyouza, a Japanese Prog Metal band that sings Entirely in Middle Ages Japanese[[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xijrh6_%E9%99%B0%E9%99%BD%E5%BA%A7-onmyo-za-%E8%92%BC%E3%81%8D%E7%8B%AC%E7%9C%BC-japanese-music_music Aoki Dokugan, or Lone Blue Eye]] He's singing as rough as he can.
193* In a single singer example, Music/{{Opeth}}'s frontman Mikael Akerfeldt alternates between deep growling vocals and clear, clean singing.
194* Music/{{Otep}} has Soprano and Gravel vocals...both done by the lead singer, Otep Shamaya. Who is a woman.
195* Music/OzzyOsbourne, while not having a particularly deep or gravelly singing voice, still provides raspy male vocals to compliment smoother female ones in at least two songs: "Close My Eyes Forever" is a duet with Lita Ford, and Ozzy and his daughter Kelly did a cover of the Music/BlackSabbath ballad "Changes" and changed the lyrics to make the song about a father/daughter relationship as opposed to a romantic one. And it is heartbreaking.
196* Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge features Mark Lanegan, a singer who solely contributed vocals to albums such as ''Rated R'' and ''Music/SongsForTheDeaf''. His gravelly tone even makes Josh Homme's voice sound smooth.
197* In another male-and-male example, Music/RhapsodyOfFire's CD-single release of "The Magic of the Wizard's Dream" featured a duet version of the album track between singer Fabio Lione (tenor) and Christopher Lee (bass--yes, ''that'' Creator/ChristopherLee)--in four different languages!
198* Music/ScarSymmetry does it with two male vocalists.
199** They started off with a single vocalist doing both the growling and the clean singing.
200* Sculptured has the two-male variant of this going on in all of their albums. The leader of the band, Don Anderson, wanted to do vocals as well as guitar, but can't sing, so he has hired other vocalists to do clean vocals, which tend to be in the tenor range, and much more melodic than his growling.
201* Shadows Fall achieves this on a number of songs, such as What Drives The Weak, Redemption and Still I Rise. Singer Brian Fair provides the harsher growling lead vocals, and guitarist Matt Bachand adds clean vocals, usually to the chorus.
202* Music/{{Slipknot}}'s Corey Taylor switches between clean singing and hardcore shouting à la [[Music/{{Pantera}} Phil Anselmo]] in most songs.
203* Soilwork's Bjorn Strid alternates between smooth clean vocals and screams. He can pull off death growls, too, but rarely is heard doing it.
204* Music/SystemOfADown features the gravelly singer Serj Tankian and the smoother, softer guitarist Daron Malakian. Their vocal interplay is especially prevalent of ''Music/{{Toxicity}}''. On later albums such as ''Music/MezmerizeHypnotize'', Malakian [[StepUpToTheMic stepped up to record his own songs]] while Serj provided occasional backing to those songs.
205* Related to the Nightwish example above, Marco Hietala's band, Music/{{Tarot}}, occasionally uses Marco's gravel with Tommi Salmela's gravel, making for a sort of echoing beast sound.
206* Music/TenggerCavalry is a FolkMetal band that makes heavy use of throat-singing instead of normal HarshVocals, and frequently pairs it with cleans.
207* It isn't their usual style, but Music/{{Turisas}} do this in a few songs (e.g. Midnight Sunrise).
208* The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyhOo-yIpEE Gates Of Glory]]" by ''Twilight Force'' does a male-with-male version where ''Music/{{Sabaton}}'s'' lead singer, Joakim Brodén, uses his guttural voice to contrast with Christian Hedgren's much higher pitch.
209* Early albums by Music/{{Underoath}} had drummer Aaron Gillespie back up frontman Dallas Taylor's screams with spoken-word segments while occasionally throwing in screams of his own. In ''The Changing of Times'', he graduated to actual singing, which he would continue after the replacement of Taylor with Spencer Chamberlain. Chamberlain would throw in some clean vocals of his own, eventually taking over both roles for ''Ø''.
210* Unexpect has three vocalists, all of whom contribute both clean and harsh vocals, but there is much interplay between Leilindel's ethereal soprano and the two guitarists' growling and shrieking.
211* Music/UnleashTheArchers is an unusual example. They're a [[MaleBandFemaleSinger female-fronted]] PowerMetal band, but singer [[StageName Brittney Slayes]] is a contralto with a decidedly non-operatic register. They accent this with HarshVocals from her male bandmates.
212* In an extremely rare example, Why She Kills features two women, one using harsh death growls while the other with an operatic soothing voice.
213** All-girl metal band Music/{{Kittie}} does this as well. Lead vocalist Morgan Lander used to do mostly screaming, but then settled into both clean and guttural vocals.
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217* Davey Havok of Music/{{AFI}} manages to achieve this ''himself'' on certain songs, such as Kill Caustic, Dancing Through Sunday, Death of Seasons and Miss Murder, and certain live performances of Totalimmortal and The Leaving Song Part II.
218* "Baby I'm An Anarchist" sees Music/AgainstMe adding soprano vocals to their normal gravelly ones.
219** "Borne On The FM Waves Of The Heart" does this again, with Tegan Quin (Half of ''Music/TeganAndSara'') providing the counterpoint to Laura Jane Grace's vocals.
220* Music/{{Alexisonfire}} uses the double male variant with one using a hardcore scream and the other with extremely melodic and soft voice.
221** In fact it's a ''triple'' male variant. The pretty voice, the psychotic voice, and the "really punk, but not screaming" voice of the lead guitarist.
222* Atreyu have a harsh screamer for the lead vocals and their drummer provides the clean pop voice for their choruses.
223* "And Then Came To Kill" by Music/TheChariot has the frantic, psychotic scream of Josh Scogin placed alongside guest vocals from Paramore's Hayley Williams.
224* Music/TheClash, at the height of their creative power, featured Joe Strummer's growly, raspy baritone and Mick Jones' clear, reedy tenor often at interplay with each other.
225* Commonly used by Music/FuckedUp, whose main singer Pink Eyes has a guttural growl that contrasts with melodic tenor backup vocals from Concentration Camp or female guest vocalists. Used extensively in the RockOpera ''David Comes to Life'' for duets between the two main characters, David and Veronica.
226* Music/FuneralForAFriend 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.
227* Hatred Surge has a variation with female high-pitched screaming and male growls.
228* Music/HuskerDu stood out with Bob Mould's raw, more punkish screaming and Grant Hart's tamer, more melodic singing.
229* Both Jimmy Urine and Steve, Righ? of Music/MindlessSelfIndulgence exhibit large vocal ranges, with Urine in particular often jumping back and forth from a piercing falsetto to harsh growls in a matter of a few seconds.
230* Music/ProtestTheHero has 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.
231* {{Inverted|Trope}} in the Punish Yourself song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5SU6IJZ4o8 Dead White Skin]], which features clean ''male'' vocals and the "gravel" coming from ''female'' growling vocals (provided by Candice from French metal band Music/{{Eths}}).
232** [[Music/XUSBand 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.
233* Music/RoloTomassi: Eva Spence is a one-person example of this trope, as she can both scream and sing rather sweetly.
234* Music/{{Skillet}} uses this with the lead singer and the female drummer during their songs "Hero" and "Awake and Alive."
235* Dancepunk/industrial duo Xibling consist of semi-ethereal, semi-seductive soprano Moriah West (who occasionally also does HarshVocals) and Darth Vader-esque basso Julien Thieme.
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239* A rare male example/inversion: one of the defining characteristics of Music/AliceInChains is the interplay between guitarist Jerry Cantrell's rather smooth voice and Layne Staley's famous strangled, nasal whine. They also play this straight on the songs "Got Me Wrong" and "Am I Inside" from the ''Sap'' EP, where they collaborate with Ann Wilson from Heart.
240* Music/BarenakedLadies offered another double male contrast with Ed Robertson's subdued, straightforward vocals and Steven Page's eccentric, sometimes quasi-operatic tones.
241** From their holiday album ''Barenaked For The Holidays'', they perform a medley of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "We Three Kings", joined by Sarah [=McLachlan=], whose sweet clear voice contrasts nicely with Steven Page.
242* Ritchie Blackmore usually doesn't sing in Blackmore's Night, but when he does, his voice contrasts with Candice's just right for this trope.
243* Canadian rockers Calicose occasionally have their female lead singer aided by backing screams from their bassist.
244* Ex-Music/{{Chiodos}} frontman Craig Owens is/was most known for singing in a high falsetto, to then [[CarefulWithThatAxe switch to gut-wrenching screams mid-song]].
245** Their new frontman, Brandon Bolmer, is a less extreme example.
246* 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.
247** She did this again with her duet with Seether on "Broken" where again her icy voice is contrasted with the extremely gravely and angst-filled tone of Shaun Morgan
248** The demo song "Lies" is another example of this style, where Amy is contrasted against the deep, ominous singing/growling of male vocalist Bruce Fitzhugh of ChristianMetal band Living Sacrifice.
249* Music/{{Fightstar}} have on occasion used the breathy and strained voice of frontman Charlie Simpson with a much softer tone that is provided by the other guitarist Alex Westaway.
250* FM Attack's "[[https://youtu.be/hfO7dw9yflY So Blue]]" features backing vocals by Shawn Ward's then [[ChildProdigy five-year-old]] daughter Stella.
251* The Franchise/HarryPotter HeavyMithril band Ministry Of Magic. Most notable in "Lily", which makes sense, seeing as it's about TheLostLenore.
252* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYdDMfO7Olg "Beware of Light (Version 2)"]] by Helalyn Flowers featuring Chris Pohl of Music/{{Blutengel}}.
253* [[{{Music/Him}} H.I.M.]] have played with this on occasion. Notably with their cover of Music/BlueOysterCult's "Don't Fear The Reaper".
254* Music/TheHorrors' version of "Still Life" featuring [[Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine Florence Welch]] invokes this trope. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiXkXz9GKoo See for yourself]].
255* "Sometimes Always" by Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain. The usual raspy sneer of William Reid is paired with the purer-sounding voice of [[Music/MazzyStar Hope Sandoval]].
256* Peter & Leah from July Talk. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdCu8uXQ7k Peter's gravel]] is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU5qp-cAtOU especially coarse]].
257* Music/LinkinPark have at times contrasted the smooth and rhythmic voice of Mike Shinoda with their lead singer Chester Bennington who uses an angst-filled scream and croon.
258* German {{goth rock}} band Mono Inc. have guttural bass-baritone lead vocalist Martin Engler and soprano backing vocalist Katha Mia, the latter often using OneWomanWail. "Boatman", featuring Ronan Harris of Music/VNVNation, is a trio variant.
259* NeonHorse: Mark Salomon alternates between guttural and falsetto vocals (and a few other styles). On a few songs, [[SelfBackingVocalist thanks to overdubbing]], he sings both at once.
260* Music/PatoFu offered a very unusual case of this when their concerts had two {{Muppet}}s, one deep-voiced and another high-pitched, as backing vocalists - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r6FpRCtty0 or on lead once]]!
261* 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/DawsonsCreek I Don't Want to Wait]]") doing backup vocals for the whole concert.
262* Music/ThePixies used this trope with Black Francis' yowling and yelling vocals and Kim Deal's feathery voice.
263** A lot of Pixies songs do an instrumental version of this by contrasting Black Francis's acoustic or clean-sounding rhythm guitar with Joey Santiago's far more distorted and abrasive lead.
264* Project Pitchfork's first few albums had Patricia Nigiani backing lead Peter Spilles, with whom she also founded the side project Aurora Sutra.
265* A Skylit Drive does this with frontman Michael "Jag" Jagmin's high-pitched, ambiguously female-sounding voice, and bassist Brian White's guttural growls.
266* Music/{{Starflyer 59}}, after Jason Martin started singing deeper, all his backing singers have been falsetto.
267* Music/StoneTemplePilots is a very rare example where there's one singer who does the contrasting high and low vocals. While generally Scott Weiland uses his loud, gravelly voice and high, smoother-sounding croon for different songs, in a couple of them (such as "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart"), he uses both styles for a contrasting sound.
268* 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.
269* Music/{{U2}} do this at least twice. "The Fly" contrasts between Bono's low, growly sorta vocals and The Edge's falsetto chorus. Inverted for "Numb": The Edge's droning PissTakeRap contrasts with Bono's high-pitched "fat lady vocals".
270** In 1993, Music/FrankSinatra and Bono recorded a new version of "I've Got You Under My Skin", with Bono in his high-pitch mode.
271** Later on, U2 recorded a new version of their hit song "One" as a duet with Music/MaryJBlige, her clear tenor vocals contrasting nicely with Bono's low growls.
272* Vandal Moon's "Boy Drinks Girl" pairs soprano guest vocalist Nicollette Vaughn (of Nico & Grey) with deep baritone lead singer Blake Voss. Ditto "We Live Forever", featuring Leanne Kelly of New Spell.
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276* Music/{{DMX}} with any female singer who isn't Music/MaryJBlige. The two best examples are "You Don't Have to Go Home" with Monica and "Come Back in One Piece" with Music/{{Aaliyah}}.
277* 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.
278* A number of Ja Rule's songs fit the bill, such as "Between Me and You" with Christina Milian, "Put It On Me" with Lil' Mo, and "Always On Time" with Ashanti.
279* Janet likewise duets with Music/BustaRhymes in "What's It Gonna Be?"
280* Music/JenniferLopez's remix of "I'm Real" is completely reworked as a duet with rapper Ja Rule.
281* Music/MariahCarey arguably codified this trope's presence in urban music with her remix to "Fantasy", a duet with [[Music/WuTangClan Ol' Dirty Bastard]]. "Don't Stop" with Mystikal and "The One" with Bonecrusher invoke this trope as well.
282* Music/{{Mya}} teamed up with both Pras of Music/TheFugees and the aforementioned Ol' Dirty Bastard in "Ghetto Supastar".
283* "Luv Me Luv Me" by Music/{{Shaggy}} feat. Music/JanetJackson (replaced by Samantha Cole in the 2001 remix).
284* Music/{{Thalia}} and Music/FatJoe in "[[https://youtu.be/hHYLYpjYtO0 I Want You]]".
285* Tia Thomas and Music/SirMixALot's [[https://youtu.be/cm0y5UoNhCE rendition of]] Music/GaryNuman's "Cars".
286* Music/{{Timbaland}} in "Are You That Somebody?" and "Try Again" with Music/{{Aaliyah}}, "Promiscuous" with Music/NellyFurtado, and "Return the Favour" with Keri Hilson.
287* The duet version of Music/WhitneyHouston's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EjfbyCpAxA "If I Told You That"]], featuring Music/GeorgeMichael, is another gender-flipped example.
288* Wyclef Jean in a number of songs, such as "Two Wrongs" with Claudette Ortiz and "Coast to Coast" with Angie Martinez.
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292* Music/TheInkSpots had this as their CharacteristicTrope. Their songs were known to always start with a short country guitar intro, followed by a high tenor singing a swooping melody, followed by a gravelly deep bass doing a spoken word version of the melody of the first singer. Their StrictlyFormula nature got them extensively parodied at the time, but they also sold enormous amounts of records.
293* 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?)
294* Any song featuring Music/KennyRogers and Music/DollyParton qualifies, most famously "Islands in the Stream".
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298* Music/AbneyPark have an album, Aether Shanties, with numerous examples of this, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aoaynVf0Z4 "The Clockyard"]].
299* Music/TheBand would occasionally pull this off with Levon Helm and Richard Manuel, the latter singing in a ghostly falsetto.
300* The Beautiful South sometimes do this, depending on exactly who is singing.
301* ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'' has the [=DomZ=] {{Leitmotif}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUUGVVQjUNk Dancing With DomZ]]. One half is sung in a mostly monotone female voice (though some parts get downright operatic,) the other half is chanted in a deep, snarling VoiceOfTheLegion.
302* Music/BigAndRich has this, as Big Kenny often sings in a deep, theatrical bass while John Rich sings in a high wispy tenor.
303* Chibi from Music/TheBirthdayMassacre, while not reaching the level of gravel that most guys get to, manages to do this on her own in ''Blue'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp1FRKc24Zk pretty darned well]].
304* Music/{{Celldweller}}, Music/BlueStahli, Subkulture, Voicians, Varien([[{{Instrumentals}} sometimes]]), actually.... pretty much every artist on [[Music/{{Celldweller}} Klayton's]] label [=FiXT=] are one man examples of this, if they're not {{instrumental|s}}, alternating from ear piercing screams to soaring theatrical cleans.
305* Music/{{Chicago}} original members Terry Kath (gravel) and Peter Cetera (near-falsetto), particularly on "In The Country" and "Dialogue".
306* The Communards' cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YUMIkqjYl4 ''Don't Leave me this way'']] is a gender-flipped version of this trope, featuring the glorious falsetto of Jimmy Somerville of Bronski Beat fame, and the deep contralto of Sarah Jane Morris.
307* Music/CrashTestDummies frequently uses this trope, with gravelly lead vocalist Brad Roberts contrasted by the much clearer Ellen Reid. Notable examples include "Superman's Song" and their version of "Good King Wenceslas" from their Christmas Album "Jingle All The Way".
308* Music/TheDecemberists: [[InvertedTrope Genderswapped]] as well in ''The Hazards Of Love'', whenever William and the Forest Queen interact -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfKhydixkeA for example]], "The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid".
309* [[Music/TheEagles Don Henley]] and Stevie Nicks in ''Leather and Lace''.
310* 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.
311* {{Industrial}} group Fockewolf consisted of soprano seductress Severina X Sol and baritone Rob Wilhelm, though they never actually dueted.
312* 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 former sings the "mommies" verse with a clear InnocentSoprano voice, the latter sings the "daddies" verse with a raspy baritone, then the two sing together for the finale.
313* Music/GrandFunkRailroad: Don Brewer (gravel), Mark Farner (soprano).
314** Master mimics Triumph copied this, down to the respective roles being taken by the drummer and the guitarist.
315* Happy Rhodes often sings both parts herself. Perfect example: [[http://rhodesongs.com/music/rearmament/index.html 'Til The Dawn Breaks]] (which, incidentally, is not a duet by Kate Bush and Annie Lennox).
316* Music/{{Heilung}} play "amplified history". With two grades of gravel! Maria Franz provides clean female vocals, Kai Uwe Faust does harsh male vocals and throat singing.
317* The Hillbilly Moon Explosion featuring Sparky [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rlYPb2plaY My Love For Evermore]].
318* Home Free, with Tim Foust's [[MediaNotes/VoiceTypes basso profundo]], vs. Rob Lindquist's and Austin Brown's high tenors.
319* [[http://www.humanwine.org Humanwine]] does this on a number of their songs, such as [[http://listen.grooveshark.com/s/Rivolta+Silenziosa/2Ec8NP?src=5 Rivolta Silenziosa]].
320* This trope was probably the whole point of Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan working together in the first place.
321** Well, Mark Lanegan can do that to ANYBODY's voice. Song for the Deaf from the album Songs for the Deaf comes to mind. And this is Josh Homme singing, one of the perennial badasses of Alternative Rock. And Lanegan makes HIM sound like a baby...
322* In some of Music/JohannSebastianBach' s {{cantata}}s, 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.
323* Another [[InvertedTrope Gender-swapped]] example comes in the Music/JoniMitchell[=/=]Music/PeterGabriel duet "My Secret Place", where her voice is noticeably lower than his.
324* [[InvertedTrope Genderswapped]] in ''Whenever I Call You Friend'' with Music/KennyLoggins and Music/StevieNicks. It's Stevie who has the deeper voice than Kenny.
325** Stevie tends to have a deeper voice than most of the males she sings with. For instance, [[Music/FleetwoodMac Lindsey Buckingham]] and Music/TomPetty.
326* Music/TheKLF's collaboration with Music/TammyWynette in ''Justified and Ancient''.
327* "We Share Our Mother's Health" by Music/TheKnife: With the aid of studio effects, Karin Dreijer sings [[SelfBackingVocalist both]] the soprano ''and'' gravel parts.
328* Lee Hazlewood (growly Oklahoma drawl) and Nancy Sinatra (innocent and pure, in contrast to the [[{{Tomboy}} tough girl]] persona she adopted on her solo records) did a whole series of these duets in TheSixties that are now considered [[CultClassic Cult Classics]].
329* Music/LouisArmstrong recorded an acclaimed series of jazz duets with Music/EllaFitzgerald. Possibly the UrExample.
330* Music/ManMan uses this on "Loot My Body" and "Whalebones", where Honus Honus' rough voice contrasts with the female backing vocals.
331* Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne of Music/TheMove and Music/ElectricLightOrchestra. Wood sang with a clean operatic tone while Lynne sang with a slightly gravely rock style.
332* Music/{{Nephew}}'s song "Blå & Black" offers a Male/Female inversion. The female singer has a very clear example of the PerishingAltRockVoice, compared to Simon Kvamms's slightly higher and more emotional singing.
333* Music/NickCave occasionally uses this, though the female voice is not always, strictly speaking, a soprano. When he plays "Where The Wild Roses Grow" on tour, he occasionally pulls out guitarist Blixa Bargeld to sing the female verses, and the contrast between the two voices is... less striking but rather more interesting.
334** Inverted on his cover of "What a Wonderful World" with Shane [=MacGowan=].
335* PlayedForLaughs in WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's "gender battle" song. The SissyVillain is trying to be more masculine so he makes his high-ranged voice lower, and TheLadette is pretending to be feminine by thinning her voice out.
336* Pretty common with Music/TheOakRidgeBoys, where Joe Bonsall's high tenor contrasts with Richard Sterban's [[MediaNotes/VoiceTypes basso profundo]]. This is especially evident on their SignatureSong "Elvira", which has Bonsall fronting the VocalTagTeam and Sterban providing the song's [[EpicRiff iconic]] "oom papa mow mow"s.
337* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lauLyQFaIGE "Genesis of Destruction"]], a remixed version of the FinalBoss theme from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' composed by the Music/OCRemix community, incorporates this in its [[RuleOfCool stupendously awesome]] Rock Opera style.
338* {{Gender Flip}}ped with Music/PatrickWolf where he sings a duet with Music/ElizaCarthy. He has the high parts while she gets the gravel on the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6MVXUvd0Rk The Bachelor]]. This is the second time he does this as he also had a duet with Music/MarianneFaithfull on his previous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mLhqJMy_WA album]].
339* Music/PinkFloyd would do this occasionally. While David Gilmour (with keyboardist Richard Wright on a handful of songs) would sing in a clear tenor, Roger Waters would sing in an intentionally abrasive or even threatening tone on some songs as contrast. This is heard most on ''Music/TheWall'', but is not heard on every song or album. The bulk of the vocals on ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', for example, are clear and melodic often with Gilmour, Wright, and Waters singing harmonies.
340* Music/ThePogues' rendition of "Fairytale of New York". And while you're at it, make that "soprano and drunken gravel".
341* The best way to tell the Reid brothers aka Music/TheProclaimers apart is through their singing voices. Craig (the usual lead vocalist) sings with a clean tenor voice, whilst Charlie (the guitarist) sings with a nasal growl.
342* 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 Music/FreddieMercury alternating between a harsh, growling tenor and a clean, piercing falsetto paired with the much smoother-voiced Music/BrianMay.
343** The starkest example would be Mercury's duet with Montserrat Caballé in "Barcelona".
344** 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.
345* Music/RayCharles and Betty Carter's duet on [[http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2106845/ray_charles_betty_carter_baby_its_cold_outside/ "Baby, It's Cold Outside"]] is a perfect example. Charles's low growl and Carter's ethereal, floating, ultra-high voice are in stark contrast. Interestingly, Carter was known for having an extremely wide vocal range.
346* Music/RodStewart'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.
347* Music/TheRollingStonesBand: "Gimme Shelter" features Merry Clayton is the female vocalist.
348* Music/SarahBrightman does this in a lot of her earlier duets. Mostly the ones with Chris Thompson.
349* "Haunted", performed by Shane [=MacGowan=] and Music/SineadOConnor (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.
350* GenderFlipped with Shiny Toy Guns with the first track of their second album, "When Did This Storm Begin?".
351* The Street & Babe Shadow employ this with Paige Stark and Luke Paquin, although not as much on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4qBJI0SvvI only song of theirs on YouTube.]]
352* "[[https://youtu.be/FCYk9KsUKWw Land of Roses]]" by Suicide Commando feat. Charlotte Nuytens is a rare aggrotech/hellektro {{industrial}} example.
353* Music/{{Supertramp}}'s lead vocals during their peak of popularity were provided by the bluesier, lower-pitched keyboardist Rick Davies and the high tenor vocals of guitarist/keyboardist Roger Hodgson. When Roger moved to a solo career in 1984, auxiliary guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Mark Hart provided Roger's parts live (and sometimes the second lead vocal parts in the studio), but in a lower-pitched (and raspier) voice, but one still higher than Rick's.
354* Music/TendonLevey manages to do this on his own for most of his discography, pairing together his ethereal and androgynous high tenor and his sinister baritone to unique effect.
355* Music/TomWaits does this when he duets with pretty much anyone who doesn't have throat cancer. In particular, he duets with Music/BetteMidler on "I Never Talk to Strangers" from ''Music/ForeignAffairs'' and has an entire album dueting with Crystal Gayle on the soundtrack to ''Film/OneFromTheHeart''. Heck, his duets with Music/KeithRichards even qualify.
356* Music/TwentyOnePilots used a one-man example in songs where Blurryface appears, such as Stressed Out. Tyler sings both normally and has a deeper, distorted tone to represent Blurryface.
357* Peter Hammill of ProgressiveRock band Music/VanDerGraafGenerator pulls this off all by himself.
358* PlayedForLaughs and combined with HarshVocals in the Music/{{Vocaloid}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQfB6NgYao "The Highschool Girl Next to Me"]].
359* Sir Harry Bowens (near-falsetto) and Sweet Pea Atkinson (gravel), best known for their work with Music/WasNotWas.
360* The amusing contrast between Music/WillieNelson's nasal drawl and Julio Iglesias's smooth but heavily-accented vocal probably played a major role in "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" becoming a hit.
361** Music/WillieNelson would later record a cover of Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up" with Sinead [=O'Connor=]. She would also perform alongside Van Morrison, singing his hit "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?"
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365* 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.
366* Frequently used in ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar'' with Annas and Caiaphas, especially as performed by Kurt Yaghjian and Bob Bingham in the 1973 film.
367* Rampant in ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'', notably in any of Audrey II's numbers where the R&B baritone-voiced plant duets with tenor Seymour or soprano Audrey, as well as Now (It's Just The Gas), a duet between Seymour's tenor and Orin's usually gravelly baritone.
368* ''Theatre/MyFairLady'' and several musicals following it (''Theatre/TheMusicMan'', ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}'', ''Baker Street'') had a soprano principal actress playing opposite a rough-voiced actor permitted to speak through most of his songs: Eliza and Higgins in ''My Fair Lady'', Guenevere and Arthur in ''Camelot'', and Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes in ''Baker Street''. The closest thing ''My Fair Lady'' has to a duet of this type is "The Rain in Spain," which becomes a trio when Pickering joins in.
369* Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Theatre/{{Volta}}'' soundtrack pairs Swedish-Finnish soprano Camilla Bäckman with gravel-baritone Broadway actor Darius Harper.
370* ''Theatre/WonderfulTown'' has an unusual all-female version in Eileen and Ruth. Eileen is a classic high-voiced ingenue and actually sings coloratura soprano in "Conversation Piece," while Ruth's vocal line sounds an octave lower in some places, being originally written for the gravelly voice of Creator/RosalindRussell.
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374* ''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).
375* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'': Knuckles's ImageSong "Unknown from M.E." appears to attempt this with only a male voice, alternating between a gravelly voice whose lyrics describe [[MenAreTough how tough Knuckles is]] and smoother, higher-pitched lyrics that describe his mission and milieu in poetic terms.
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379* 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.
380* The 1936 Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer short "Film/EverySunday" had the rich, jazzy vocals of a young Creator/JudyGarland duet with the classical soprano vocals of Creator/DeannaDurbin.
381* In the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/FrogAndToad'', the title characters are voiced by Will Ryan, in a high, smooth tenor, and Hal Smith, with a lower, more gravelly tone.
382* Brazilian MTV had the show ''Garganta & Torcicolo'', starring two monsters who were this trope in reverse order - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eooIgGgyfmA sample here]] - whose names translate to [[MeaningfulName Throat]] and Wry Neck. And both made by the same voice actor!
383* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Angel and Husk's [[PepTalkSong Pep-Talk]] duet "Loser, Baby" has the bright, high-pitched tenor Angel (the soprano) contrasting the rough and deep voice of Husk (the gravel).
384* The ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' short ''WesternAnimation/IHaventGotAHat'' has this in its title song sung by the twin puppies Ham(Bernice Hansen) and Ex(Billy Bletcher).
385* The classic "Mahnah Mahnah" routine from Franchise/TheMuppets is an example, as is ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' opening theme with the female Muppets singing the first verse and the deepest-voiced male Muppets singing the second.
386* "Come Wayward Souls" from ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' has the gravelly voice of The Beast backed up by a high CreepyChild chorus.
387* "Anarchy" by Characters/{{Ironmouse}} and Bubi of Webvideo/VShojo has the former as the soprano and the latter as the gravel. Somewhat zigzagged as some of Ironmouse's lines are squeaky and raspy, while some of Bubi's lines are smooth-toned.
388* One clip on ''Series/WorldsDumbest'' has a guy trying to do both parts while singing "The Star-Spangled Banner". He fails at both.
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