PURPOSE: to evaluate the perceptual form concerning the voice of the singers from kitschy musical style in Recife. METHODS: clinical research was carried out in the clinic-school of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences course in the Federal University of Pernambuco and Network TV Station channel 14, both located in the city of Recife. This is an observational, transversal and descriptive study. With consent of 13 singers, above 18-year old, there was recording of the spoken voice while speaking vowel as well during the song "happy birthday"; as for singing voice, there was recording through songs from singer's repertory. RESULTS: times of speech reduced; pitch and loudness modifications, comparing spoken and singing voice, both were adequate but changed into sharp and high, respectively; changes in resonance, of laryngeal-pharyngeal type to balanced with nasal compensation. There was maintenance of the brusque vocal attack; change of the mixed modal register in habitual voice to head modal in professional voice; clear vocal quality predominance in spoken voice and patterns adequate to modulation, projection and articulation in singing. CONCLUSION: the singers from kitschy musical style in Recife had reduced maximum phonation time and had, in the speech voice to singing voice, changes in pitch, loudness and resonance and maintenance of vocal characteristics for attack and recording. A clear voice quality in speech voice was predominant and the appropriate modulation, good projection and good articulation were among the most frequent patterns in singing voice.
Voice; Evaluation; Music
