List of overtone musicians

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This is a list of musicians and musical groups utilizing some form of overtone singing.

Traditional

These are musicians using a traditional method of overtone singing: Overtone singing originates among the people in the Urankhai region of Siberia, who have historic links to Mongols (although they might speak Turkic languages, like Tuvans).

Tuvans and Mongols

Kaigal-ool Khovalyg of Huun-Huur-Tu
Sainkho Namtchylak
Kongar-ol Ondar featured in Genghis Blues and work with Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
Okna Tsahan Zam from Kalmykia
Albert Kuvezin of Yat-Kha (formerly Huun-Huur-Tu)
Saidash Mongush
Enkhjargal Dandarvaanchig, also known as Epi

Groups

Others

Tanya Tagaq from Nunavut
Paul Pena from San Francisco featured on Genghis Blues
Demetrio Stratos^[1]
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää Yoik singer from Finland
Fátima Miranda
Enrique Ugalde alias Soriah

Non-traditional

Attila Csihar is a prominent figure in Black Metal and Extreme Metal and is noted for utilising the overtone technique most commonly with drone band Sunn O)))
Avi Kaplan Bass singer and vocal percussionist in Pentatonix
Ray Anderson – jazz singer & trombonist
Theo Bleckmann – featured in composer John Hollenbeck‘s composition The Music of Life
Arrington de Dionyso of Old Time Relijun
Diamanda Galás – Greek-American performance artist and renowned vocalist; when performing an opera by Vinko Globokar she had to produce four tones at once ^[2]
Jim Gillette of Nitro
Dani Filth of Cradle Of Filth
The Suitcase Junket – contemporary multi-instrumentalist American musician
Bruce Lamont of Yakuza
Darroh Sudderth of Fair to Midland
Baby Gramps – folk musician
John Hammink – engineer and singer, has originally used both Sygyt and Kargyraa for testing Skype audio quality, particularly as it relates to telephony hardware
David Hykes featured overtoning with his score for incarnate Tibetan lama Dzongsar Khyentese’s film “Travellers and Magicians”, the scores to “The Yatra Trilogy” by John Bush, and film trailer music for “The New World” by Terrence Malick, the first of the “Blade” movies and “X Men: The Last Stand”
Enver Izmailov throatsings on his album With My Best Wishes
Space Mandino – American folk musician
Bobby McFerrin – jazz vocalist
Lalah Hathaway – soul & jazz vocalist, daughter of Donny Hathaway. Uses overtone singing during live improvisation^[3]
Aengus Ó Maoláin – Irish singer, both solo and with Anúna and Bulraga, uses both Karygraa and Sygt but mainly Khoomei
David Lee Roth (formerly of Van Halen) sometimes uses a multi-pitched wail similar to throat singing
Demetrio Stratos – Italian singer of Greek and Egyptian origin, explored diplophony, triplophony and even quadrophony with Area (band) and in his solo records, in particular Cantare la voce
Jimmy Urine of Mindless Self Indulgence
Anna-Maria Hefele ^[4]
Robert Een – American composer, cellist, and vocalist
Tran Quang Hai – Vietnamese overtone singer, first researcher on Mongolian khoomei in France in 1969 ^[5]

References

El Haouli, Janete (2006). Demetrio Stratos: En busca de la voz-música (in Spanish). México, D.F.: Radio Educación. OCLC 83779306. Demetrio Stratos and his voice which is, as El Haouli concludes, close to the tuva-mongolian throat singing tradition.
“Archived copy”. Archived from the original on 2014-11-08. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SJIgTLe0hc
“Archived copy”. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-10-07.