Beautiful Singing Voice

Markus: Heard something strange last night.
Bardin: That bottle of brandy probably didn't help.
Markus: No, I'm serious. I heard singing. Beautiful, it was. But wistful and... sad.
Bardin: Don't tell me the keep's haunted.
Markus: Maybe, but this wasn't no ghost. It was our elf.
Bardin: Kerillian? Never heard her sing. She saves her voice for insults.
Markus: It was definitely her.

— Vermintide II

Some characters can soothe raging people and beasts with nothing more than a lullaby. They can enchant the birds of the forest with but a chant, and spark a love interest's affections just by singing a verse or two. If any of these are the case, the character just may be in possession of a Beautiful Singing Voice.

As you might expect, the Beautiful Singing Voice trope describes any instance where a character is acknowledged in-universe as having a great singing voice, either directly or indirectly. The character may draw praise from fellow characters over their lovely voice, or they may succeed at some task that requires beautiful singing. In some cases, the Narrator may outright tell you the character has a talent for song, whether or not it's ever shown in the story itself.

This trope is commonly associated with The Ingenue and The Princess Classic, as many stories (especially those leaning towards the fantastic) use a Beautiful Singing Voice as an indicator that a character is kind, pure of heart, or a Friend to All Living Things. In those cases, there is likely overlap with Innocent Soprano. Yet this is just expanding Beauty Equals Goodness to include the character's voice rather than only their physical appearance. A melodious voice does not guarantee goodness by any stretch; many other stories have characters and/or creatures that have beautiful voices and yet are dangerous or downright evil — a perennial example being the Sirens of Greek and Roman myth.

Another common (though not essential) use of this trope is having it be a character's hidden talent, having it come from an unlikely source, or pairing it with severe Performance Anxiety so that it's rarely used. This is largely a matter of increasing the trope's impact; there's nothing particularly special or unexpected about a world-famous vocalist having an incredible singing voice, but it's quite a surprise when the local Shrinking Violet, Badass, or Homeless Pigeon Person can croon a tune with the finest.

Often a source of Love at First Note. Can be a source of Aroused by Their Voice in rare instances, but the focus here is on aesthetic quality rather than sex appeal. See also Non-Singing Voice and Singing Voice Dissonance for issues that come up while trying to use this trope in film. Contrast Hollywood Tone-Deaf, Cute, but Cacophonic, and Dreadful Musician. Not to be confused with the Gift of Song, when a song is literally given as a present.

In-Universe Examples Only — this is not the page to voice your personal opinions about singing voices, whether they belong to fictional characters or real people. There must be some in-universe indication that the character has a Beautiful Singing Voice, as casting directors tend to cast trained vocalists in singing roles even if the character's in-story vocals aren't intended to be anything special — an auditory version of the Hollywood Beauty Standards effect.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• 7 Seeds: Mari during the Ryugu Shelter arc is an idol singer and her singing gets repeatedly mentioned to be one of the things that has kept the inhabitants of the shelter relatively calm and sane. No matter how bad things looked with one food storage flooding, and a terrible disease spreading, her voice was something that kept giving people hope. Given that it turned out that she was the carrier of the disease and the reason it spread so horrendously fast, she curses her voice. And then intentionally makes use of her enchanting voice to collect all the diseased inhabitants and get locked in a freezer to keep the disease from spreading again.
• Azumanga Daioh: Sakaki surprises Yomi and the others when a karaoke session reveals she can sing (in addition to her other talents). Each of the girls remark on her singing voice, causing Sakaki to smile shyly and blush.
• Suzu from Belle (2021) has a beautiful singing voice, but she's unable to sing at the start of the film since doing so reminds her of her mother's death. She realizes that she's able to sing in U as her online avatar Belle, and while she's initially criticized by the other users for her unusual rhythm and her freckles, her singing quickly becomes a hit in the online world.
• In Black Clover, Kahono is noted to have one by Noelle and dreams of becoming an idol singer. Fittingly, she uses Song Magic and according to the Volume 14 Questions Brigade she has the best singing voice among the characters.
• In A Bride's Story, Amir and Karluk enjoy singing together. Amir does praise his current singing voice, but whether or not that will still hold true after he goes through puberty is another matter.
• Cardcaptor Sakura: Tomoyo is a member of the school choir and it's repeatedly noted, mostly by Sakura, how lovely her singing is. So lovely in fact that two separate Clow Cards (Song and Voice) take an interest in it.
• Teruhashi Kokomi in The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., who has the ability to move her classmates to tears while singing karaoke, of all things. They then go on to tell her she should be a singer.
• Mafuyu from given is noted to have a beautiful singing voice, even though he initially has no formal musical training. Ritsuka is immediately struck by Mafuyu's voice when hearing him sing for the first time, and insists that he be the lead singer for the band.
• Kanon from Love Live! Superstar!! has an excellent singing voice, which is often noted by other characters. Keke even calls her "subarashii koe no hito", or "amazing voice person", before learning her name.
• Mirajane from Fairy Tail, who gives performances at the guild and usually multiple encores.
• In Macross Delta, every member of Walkure is known for this because of their work as a tactical sound unit essential for keeping the Var at bay. But its lead singer, Mikumo, particularly stands out for her especially powerful, deep, and lovely voice, to the point that everyone is surprised when Freyja is able to match Mikumo's intensity. Mikumo's singing prowess is later revealed to be derived from her true nature as a clone of the Star Singer, an immensely powerful being whose voice could resonate throughout the entire galaxy.
• Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun plays this for laughs. The choir club's mysterious "Lorelei", nicknamed for a mythical German siren, is a hauntingly good singer. However, people's romantic idealizations about who she is are instantly crushed when they find out that her real identity is the abrasive jerk Seo.
• In My Hero Academia, Class 1-A is assigned to put on a show for the school's culture festival. When deciding who would be singing, the class is immediately blown away by Jiro's husky and powerful voice, planting her in the role of lead singer while everyone else would be doing stunts, instrumentals, and backup.
• Karyoubinga is considered one of the most beautiful singers in the world in CLAMP's manga RG Veda. She's also a Delicate and Sickly girl who meets her end via Kill the Cutie early on in the plot after she's kidnapped by Taishakuten and forced to sing even though the air harms her lungs the more she does so.
• Kato, one of Those Two Guys from Tanaka-kun is Always Listless is revealed to be really good at singing, enough that the typically lazy Tanaka deigned to give him a standing ovation. His voice apparently resounds in his listeners' hearts, even though he only sings Anime tunes.
• Eiko from Ya Boy Kongming! enraptures the newly-reincarnated Kongming with her voice, to the point that he mistakes her as a "songstress of Hell" at first, and she later moves him to tears during his Heroic BSoD. After becoming more acquainted with her, Kongming decides to help her become a professional singer and achieve her goal of healing others with music. Later on, Kabe is similarly affected by her singing and can't stop himself from crying.
• Junko from Zombie Land Saga is noted in-universe for being an extremely skilled singer, which contributed to her status as a pioneer in the idol industry during the Showa Era. In episode 3 of Revenge, Ai and Sakura both find themselves enamored by her singing at different points.

Comic Books

• X-Men: Jay (or sometimes Joshua) Guthrie, younger brother of the New Mutant Cannonball, has an extraordinary singing voice, heavily implied to be his actual Mutant power. Then Chuck Austen came along and gave him wings. Still has the singing powers, though.

Fairy Tales

• In the original fairytale, Rapunzel is noted as having a beautiful singing voice that attracts the prince who would quickly become her rescuer. While Rapunzel can still sing during her portrayal in Tangled, the context is different. Her singing doesn't attract her rescuer, but it does cause her hair to glow, which enables her and Eugene to get out of a tight spot.
• In some versions of the original fairy tale Sleeping Beauty — most notably the Charles Perrault version — the princess is given the gift of song by good fairies. This is one of the few details from the Perrault version that made it into the now-ubiquitous Disney version of the story.
• Thumbelina, in both the original Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale and its 1994 animated adaptation, is noted as having a gorgeous singing voice that attracts people to her before they even see her.

Fan Works

• In the The Lord of the Rings fanfic The Games of the Gods, Rachel is a self-aware Parody Sue that doesn't actually want to be one. Among her ridiculous number of talents is, of course, a stunning singing voice.
• In The Heart Trilogy, Kathryn is noted for having a stirringly lovely voice. The first thing that draws Smaug to her is her singing, and he captures her so she can sing for him. It's one of the few things that can calm and soothe him; he even believes her voice surpasses elven singers. She's also roped into singing for the royal court of Dorwinion.
• In Bequeathed from Pale Estates, Lyarra Martell née Snow can reduce the most difficult audience to tears with her singing. It also lets Targaryen loyalist Monford Velaryon to identify her as Prince Rhaegar's surviving daughter, as she inherited her very distinctive vocal prowess from him.
• In the Stardew Valley Game Mod, Ridgeside Village, the potential Love Interest, Alissa, is mentioned several times to have a beautiful singing voice, part of her character arc involves her getting enough confidence to perform. It is heavily hinted that she is actually half-mermaid which would explain it.
• In Once Upon a Studio: Version 2.0, a hypothetical extended cut of Disney's centenary short, several voice acting legends whose characters weren't granted solo or group lines during the rousing rendition of "When You Wish Upon a Star" are granted the opportunity to do so this time round:
  • Jennifer Hale in this version gets the opportunity to sing the opening lines solo as Cinderella, before handing over to Belle and the Beast, which is very fitting since her singing voice is almost as beautiful as that of Ilene Woods (if not equally so), as shown in Sofia The First: Once Upon a Princess.
  • Hale and Chris Daniel Barnes also get to sing a lovely duet during the song, including, near the end, the first line of "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes".
  • Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi's singing voices as Rapunzel and Eugene also make a triumphant return in this version, as they are able to first join Ariel, Eric, Aladdin and Jasmine in starting up the final verse of "When You Wish Upon a Star", and later sing a brilliant duet of "I See The Light".
  • Temuera Morrison also gets to do his own singing as Chief Tui, Moana's father.
  • Lea Salonga also gets to reprise her role as Jasmine's singing voice (instead of Mulan's), which was her first major role in any Disney production.
• The Simpsons: Team L.A.S.H.: Anastasia is shown on numerous occasions to be an amazing singer, with a particular affinity for opera. In fact, she's so good at singing that her music teacher, Mr. Largo, doesn't really know what to do with her, since she's leaps and bounds ahead of her classmates in terms of musical ability.
• Spellbound (Lilafly): Fae love music and are supernaturally good singers. Marinette loves listening to Adrien sing, but he unfortunately has to be careful about doing it, because he's likely to accidentally charm people.
• In My Immortal, Ebony is supposedly an excellent emo singer.
• Similarly to Ebony Darkness Dementia Raven way, Atlantiana Rebekah Loren of Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen sings karaoke stunningly well.

Films — Animation

• Tanya Mousekewitz from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West launches into her theme song while doing chores. Her voice is so captivating that Cat R. Waul gets just one earful, and drops Fievel, who he was about to devour whole. Homing in on Tanya's voice, Waul cradles her in his hands, and immediately makes her part of his saloon's stage act, describing Tanya as "a diva." She has a similar effect on Waul's clientele.
• This is the main skill of the eponymous Arlo the Alligator Boy. He loves singing, usually randomly breaking into a song number out of nowhere, or tends to lapse into song mid-sentence, to show how he feels about something. Bertie is captivated by it, while it often annoys Marcellus; it is even lampshaded a few times. What's helpful about it is Arlo is voiced by Michael J. Woodard, a former contestant on American Idol.
• The Disney Princess franchise has its share of examples:
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has the iconic scene where her singing attracts the birds and friendly woodland creatures and drives home the point that she's a Princess Classic who's a Friend to All Living Things, if that hadn't already been made abundantly clear earlier.
  • Cinderella is shown to have a lovely voice as all her bird and mouse friends will sit in silence just to hear her sing. One scene has Drizella's grating warbling during a music lesson transition to Cindy singing the same song much better at the same time while she's cleaning the foyer.
    • Even in Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess, Jennifer Hale's singing voice as Cinderella is almost as beautiful as that of Ilene Woods (if not equally so).
  • Sleeping Beauty has similar scenes where Princess Aurora sings to (and dances with) Woodland Creatures, and her voice is ultimately what draws Prince Phillip to her, but her Beautiful Singing Voice is Enforced as the "gift of song" was one of the three gifts given to her by her Fairy Godmothers at birth.
  • Ariel in The Little Mermaid has this as a central plot point. Her singing voice is the one thing Ursula takes away from her before turning her into a human. Later, her voice is the one thing that makes Prince Eric remember her as the girl who saved his life when he shipwrecked at sea.
• While The Great Mouse Detective and Doctor Dawson visit the seedy seamen's pub, the rowdy patrons fall silent when the chanteuse Kitty Mouse takes the stage and begins "Let Me Be Good To You". They regain their raucous fervor after Kitty's tone-shift turns her act into a striptease.
• The Little Mermaid (1968): The Mermaid's voice is so beautiful that the Sea Witch demands it as price for the Mermaid to become human.
• Sing revolves around a struggling theater manager, who tries to drum up an audience via a talent competition. There are, of course, some duds, and some tolerably good prospects, but also some genuinely engaging comers: Ash the rocking porcupine, Mike the crooner mouse, Johnny the tenor gorilla, Rosita the sonorous pig, and Meena the glorious elephant. This talent pool is so good that the audience doesn't seem to mind that the theater is a shambles.
• In a rather vicious parody of Disney Princess conventions, Princess Fiona from Shrek displays one in a duet with a random songbird...at least until her ability to hold a note causes the bird to explode. She then takes its orphaned eggs and cooks them for breakfast.
• In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, once the Ink And Paint Club has cleared the stage after the Daffy Duck versus Donald Duck piano duel, the place goes silent as Jessica Rabbit comes on, singing "Why Don't You Do Right". Except for a tiny exchange between Eddie Valiant and Betty Boop, nobody, neither human nor cartoon, makes a peep. Of course, the mostly male audience was Eating the Eye Candy, yet this wet bar club is library quiet during Jessica's number.
• In Cats Don't Dance, Sawyer is known among her acting friends for her beautiful singing voice. However, due to the tough circumstances of her life, they note they haven't heard her sing in quite a while.
• The Willoughbys: Jane Willoughby is acknowledged in-universe as being musically gifted, but her awful parents find her singing annoying^note Granted, they find her mere existence annoying. At the climax of the movie, she sings to her brothers to comfort them after their parents leave them for dead on a snowy mountaintop. Her song is what ultimately leads to Nanny and Melanoff finding them, and Nanny calls her song "beautiful".
• In the Novelization of Turning Red, Mei describes Robaire's voice as angelic when he starts singing in the climax.

Films — Live-Action

• The Chorus: Pierre Morhange. After Mathieu hears him singing by himself, he writes in his diary that his voice is a miracle and the rare promise of an exceptional gift. He appoints him to the choir, where he ends up becoming lead soloist.
• Choose Love: Cami used to sing in a band and has the voice to prove it. When Rex hears her singing briefly, he's instantly charmed and asks her to harmonize with him on the album.
• In the animated/live-action hybrid film Enchanted, Giselle of the fairytale kingdom of Andalasia is an Affectionate Self-Parody of the old-school Disney Princesses, so she sings to her friendly Woodland Creatures and has Prince Edward fall in love with her just by hearing the sound of her voice. Even when she lands in New York her voice remains crystalline, as evidenced by the pests she is able to convince to work with her ("Happy Working Song") and the Crowd Song she is able to drum up ("How Does She Know").
• In the film Camp Rock, the sound of Mitchie performing "This Is Me" attracts the interest of Teen Idol Shane Gray, and prompts him to conduct a camp-wide Cinderella-esque search to find out who the mysterious voice belongs to.
• Godmothered: Eleanor tells Jane that she has one.
• The Little Mermaid (2023): Ariel's voice is so beautiful it begins to slightly effect Eric's sanity, as he becomes obsessed with her Siren Song, that keeps playing in his head.
• Making Waves: Joe is creepy and weird and says stuff like "We're going to the toilet" in an odd monotone when his mother tells him to use the restroom—Joe is in his forties. Yet he turns out to have a lovely singing voice, and he entertains everyone in the hotel bar at dinner.
• Paris 36: Douce (Nora Arnezeder) becomes highly sought after once her beautiful singing gets noticed.
• Played for drama in The Dark Knight Rises. Bane comments that a boy singing the national anthem before a football game has a lovely singing voice, but Bane is there to cause chaos and kill countless scores of people. It serves to undercut how Bane is a sociopath who doesn't care about how much damage he inflicts on ordinary people, nor about any sort of artistry, if he gets what he wants.

Literature

• In the Earth's Children series of novels, The One Who Is First To Serve The Great Earth Mother (she has no other name) is considered the First in part because of her beautiful singing voice, which helps her to communicate with the spirit world.
• Mihaya, of Girls Kingdom is described by multiple people as having a beautiful singing voice, like a bell. There are even rumors on campus that if you hear her sing your wish will come true. All Misaki knows is that when she hears Mihaya sing, she will drop everything and just listen.
• Johnny Fontaine, with the blessing of The Godfather Vito Corleone, was chosen to sing at the wedding of Constanzia Corleone. Johnny is stated to have had a remarkable voice since childhood, which was furthered by Sister Immaculata.
• Katniss from The Hunger Games is an excellent singer, though she rarely uses this talent.
• Mavis from Malory Towers plans to be an opera singer when she grows up and is noted to have a lovely voice. She's quite a show-off in the beginning, but after temporarily losing her voice, she settles down and becomes much nicer.
• In Maskerade, Agnes Nitt has a wonderful singing voice. In fact, she's a Voice Changeling who can have any wonderful singing voice (or otherwise - when asked to sing a piece the way Christine would, she does precisely that), and whose only limit when singing scales is that when she reaches infra- and ultrasound it turns into a Brown Note.
• In Mercy Thompson, Bran, the leader of the werewolves, is a literally legendary singer- he's over a thousand years old and immortal beings mention how much of an honor it is to hear a performance by him.
• The Mermaid of Black Conch: Aycayia's name translates to Sweet Voice, and it's one of the reasons the other women in her village became so jealous of her that they prayed to the Goddess Jagua to turn her into a mermaid. In the present day, David and Arcadia both think she lives up to her name, and Arcadia compares her voice to honey.
• The Mermaid's Daughter: Fand, also known as The Little Mermaid, had this gift. She passed it on to at least two of her descendants: Caolinn, who sang in pubs in The '40s, and protagonist Kathleen, an acclaimed opera singer whose voice amazes everyone who hears it.
• Erik, aka the The Phantom of the Opera, is stated that despite his hideous visage and disturbed mind, that alongside being a genius in pretty much every field of science and art, also possess the most beautiful voice of any person on the face of the Earth, likened to that of an angel. Likewise, Christine, The Ingenue he takes under his wing, is chosen specifically by him for her serenely ethereal natural if untrained singing voice. After he's finished training her, she sings so beautifully that it's almost supernatural and unworldy, making the operagoing public love her all the more.
• Nevermoor:
  • Noelle, an Alpha Bitch that the heroes must tangle with in the first book, is hoping to join the Wundrous Society, and her "knack" to show to the judges is a spectacularly beautiful singing voice. Morrigan and Hawthorne loathe Noelle for her attitude, but both are forced to concede that she is staggeringly talented when they actually hear her sing. It's not enough to get Noelle into Wunsoc, but she does come very close—only the top nine candidates out of literally dozens and dozens get in, and Noelle ranked tenth. To put that in context, Noelle's singing voice is so beautiful that it ranks as an extraordinary talent just barely behind a boy who can train and ride dragons, a girl who can perform surgery at age eleven, and an actual psychic.
  • Angels such as Israfel are all gifted with the most gorgeous singing voices known to man. In fact, they're so gorgeous that any mere mortal who hears them will experience the most wonderful sensation of their entire life... but that sensation goes away as soon as the singing stops, and literally nothing else will ever bring them that level of joy. Humans who hear angel voices become addicted, and are empty and listless until they can get their next "fix." When Jupiter takes Morrigan to meet Israfel at a theater where he performs for his addicts, he makes sure they both have their hearing blocked off before Israfel takes the stage.
• Reign of the Seven Spellblades: Justified with Carlos Whitrow. They are a fantastic singer whose voice performances are considered a highlight of attending meetings of the club they founded for students with gender- and sex-related magic. Their singing voice is literally magical and acts as a Counter Spell counterspell to Sex Magic, by means of their having been castrated and enchanted as a child to serve as the part-succubus Ophelia Salvadori's minder.
• Irene Adler Norton is this, both in the Sherlock Holmes canon and in Carole Nelson Douglas' series of novels featuring her. She is an opera singer who had to retreat from public life for a time after her entanglement with the King of Bohemia, but she is actually depicted singing beautifully in both the Doyle story "A Scandal in Bohemia" and in Douglas' novels. Douglas' emphasis on Irene's atypical range seems to be a reflection of Irene's cheerful disregard for 1880s convention (working as a Pinkerton and as an inquiry agent for the Rothschilds, going without a corset in a Liberty dress, wearing men's clothing, smoking).
• The Ship Who...: Like all Man in the Machine ships, Helva uses her diaphragm and throat while speaking but the actual sound is emitted by microphones, and she does not technically breathe and cannot open her mouth, which presents some problems when it comes to song. Nonetheless, after someone noticed the warm and vibrant quality of her humming she applied herself to finding a way to sing and developed ways to manipulate her diaphragm and vocal chords, and "expand the oral cavity well into the frontal sinuses", to good effect. Helva can sing any role in any song that she cares to try, including basso profundo, and can imitate voices. She becomes Famed In-Story as "The Ship Who Sang".
• In Sirena Selena, what sets the titular character from all other drag queens around is her singing voice. When she is singing at wealthy Hugo Graubel’s party, the combination of her singing and her glamorous presentation transfixes all in attendance.
• Star Crazy Me by Jean Ure has a couple of examples:
  • Carmen's voice is so good that a former opera singer notices her busking and becomes her singing teacher, despite Carmen being rather rude to her. The book ends with Carmen winning the rock music contest at her school.
  • Mrs. P, Carmen's self-proclaimed singing teacher. She recalls at one point when she was at school, two of the girls discussing who would get the part in a musical, but agreeing although she was the best singer, she was too ugly. However, she went ahead and got the role and became famous, even though she had no virtue but her voice.
• There Is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns: Isanella is a bard so powerful, so connected to music, that merely introducing herself can send unprepared men to their knees. She makes sure to send people out of the room before she actually sings.
• Played with in the novel Trilby, in which the titular character has a wonderful singing voice that launches her to stardom...but only when she's been hypnotized by the sinister Svengali. Free of Svengali's hypnotism, she's completely tone-deaf.
• the secret lives of Princesses: Princess Fa-Sol-La spends her life at operas and concerts, and sings for private guests when those are closed. She sings instead of speaking.
• Played for laughs in the children's fantasy novel Which Witch?: Belladonna has a beautiful singing voice, it comes with being a white witch - she even causes birds to sing more beautifully than before, by just walking by.

Live-Action TV

• A musician in Seven Swordsmen (a Chinese Wuxia television series), is noted as having a voice so beautiful "it would melt the snow on Mount Heaven." Even the people who hate him and want him to die for an ill-timed Good Samaritan moment want to hear him sing one last time before the execution.
• In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Giles is shown to have a very good singing voice, much to the astonishment of the Scooby gang when they see him singing The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes." He also sings in the seventh episode of season six which is the episode with Sweet the dancing Demon where everybody sings.
• Cheers: Despite it being a minor thing that her singing's not great, Lilith is played by a Broadway actress, and does occasionally get to show it off. Her singing a lullaby to her baby brings the bar to tears, and when she seizes a karaoke machine to stop Frasier over-using it, everyone boos Sam for cutting her off midway through a performance of "You're Just in Love".
• In Emily in Paris, Mindy sings "La Vie en Rose" in a park for Emily. Unbeknownst to her, her powerhouse vocals attract a big crowd that applaud her by the end of the song.
• Chuck McGill in Better Call Saul. At a karaoke night to celebrate Jimmy's McGill's admission to the Bar, Jimmy sees him looking depressed and decides to drag him on stage for a duet. Jimmy's terrible singing makes Chuck's beautiful voice stand out even more, before Chuck grabs the microphone, goes solo, and wows the crowd: Jimmy's plan to coax him out of his shell and cheer him up has worked. As Chuck is played by Michael McKean, this is also a case of The Cast Show Off.
• Farscape. In the three-parter "Look at the Princess", Zhaan is the only member of the crew on Moya, so Pilot relays a request from the Living Ship for Zhaan to sing to them, opening all the doors so it will resonate throughout the ship. When Moya is Suddenly Voiced in the final episode of the trilogy, her only request is that Zhaan sing once more.
• It turns out that Gomer from Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. can sing in a beautiful baritone in contrast to his high-pitched and nasal speaking voice. This was to give Jim Nabors a chance to show off his pipes. In one episode he sings "Oh Mine Papa" so tenderly and beautifully it moves Sgt. Carter to not-so manly tears.
• H₂O: Just Add Water: As Sirens Are Mermaids in this series, it crops up at times.
  • While under the effects of the full moon, Cleo goes from Hollywood Tone-Deaf to having a singing voice so lovely, it hypnotizes all the boys in town (though she never actually sings, she just harmonizes the whole time). Moonstruck!Cleo gets a swelled head about her new singing voice, but as soon as the moon sets, her voice goes back to normal and breaks the siren spell.
  • Bella's actress, Indiana Evans, is an actual singer and sings the new intro for the third season. Bella herself is quickly hired to sing at the café as soon as Nate's band hears her sing. Unlike Cleo, Bella's singing voice isn't magic.
  • Mako Mermaids: An H₂O Adventure: Sirena is the only mermaid seen singing in this series. Her normal singing voice is beautiful, but she can also add magic effects to it if she wants to. She accidentally hypnotizes a boy into crushing on Nixie, and being startled while she's singing results is glass shattering.
• In How I Met Your Mother, The Mother, aka. Tracy McConnel, is shown singing wistfully on the balcony of her hotel room, right next door to Ted's. As Ted informs his kids, the moment he heard her lovely voice, was when he began to fall in love with her, even though he had yet to meet her, let alone see her.
• In Only Murders in the Building, the jaded and serious Detective Williams shows some Hidden Depths when she sings "One" from A Chorus Line. Oliver and Charles are both shocked and absolutely delighted when they hear that her voice is fabulous.
• In The Phantom of the Opera (1990), this is how Erik approached Christine after overhearing her singing the previous night—"Mademoiselle, you have an astonishing voice."
• Rebecca from Ted Lasso is revealed in "Make Rebecca Great Again" to have a beautiful singing voice, and her best friend Sassy says she used to sing all the time before her abusive ex-husband put a stop to it. She later wows everyone when she sings "Let It Go" at karaoke.
• Pretty Little Liars has Mona, who gets quite a few musical moments throughout the show (being the show that it is, most of them end up being a case of Ironic Nursery Tune, but there are exceptions) to the point where even her best friend Hanna has enough while she’s preparing for an audition with the climax of Sara Bareilles’s “Gravity” and snaps “Okay, Mona, we get it! You can freakin’ sing!”

Myths & Religion

• Demi-God Orpheus from Greek Mythology the son of Apollo and Calliope has a voice so grand, its able to charm even his Aunt Persephone that she speaks out on his behalf to his Uncle/Great-Uncle Hades, to attempt to rescue his beloved.
• The Sirens of Greek and Roman myth were dangerous bird-human hybrid creatures whose voices and songs were so enticing, they would use them to lure sailors to shipwreck on the rocky beaches of their home islands.

Tabletop Games

• Disney Lorcana gives some characters with notable singing voices an actual mechanical keyword, Singer, that allows them to help reduce the cost of Song cards.
• In Nomine: Israfel, the Angel of Music, has the most beautiful singing voice of any being alive, and her performances regularly move other angels to tears.

Theme Parks

• In the Disneyland Paris version of The Haunted Mansion, "Phantom Manor", the Bride, in this version known as Melanie Ravenswood's lovely, melancholic singing can be heard throughout the entirety of the attraction, forming the Leit Motif of the ride, in essence adding to the overall more macabre theming in comparisons to the other variation, as her beautiful voice acts as a tragic parallel to her cursed and tortured life.

Theatre

• In the operetta The Firefly, the main character is spotted by a choral director who insists that this "angel voice" simply must be allowed to join his boys' choir. She's actually a girl soprano masquerading as a boy, but her singing only becomes more spectacular after that fact is exposed.
• In Hadestown, the power of Orpheus', a demigod born of a muse therefore gifted a literally divine voice, singing pleases Persephone and Hades, two literal gods, so much so that the couple is inspired to reconcile and the notoriously stingy Hades allows Orpheus one chance to rescue Eurydice. It also greatly increases Eurydice's attraction to Orpheus at the beginning of their courtship, making even her cynical heart believe that his song could heal the world.
• In Into the Woods, Rapunzel's lovely yet haunting voice carries through the woods and is the only thing that can calm the Witch in the midst of her tantrums, and charms the Prince before he basks in her beauty.
• The Phantom of the Opera:
  • Christine Daae's voice is considered notably beautiful for an opera singer, a line of work in which this would be expected. Her voice is so lovely that the Phantom falls in love with her and kidnaps her.
  • The Phantom himself is noted as having a stunning voice, as Christine remembers during her lessons and her time at his lair, that his singing was exciting and beautiful.
  Christine: But his voice filled my spirit with a strange sweet sound,
  In that night, there was music in my mind,
  And from music, my soul began to soar,
  And I heard as I never heard before.
  • Likewise Christine's son, Gustaf, in Love Never Dies, is recognized for his skill with music and his crisp, clear timbre, that the Phantom is able to intuit that the boy is actually his son and not Raoul's, which Christine confirms to be true.
• In The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, this is explicitly an effect of the Hive Mind on the people of Hatchetfield. Charlotte says of her husband Sam that prior to the meteor falling he'd "always been a little flat", but once he's infected "he sound[s] like an angel". Professor Hidgens later uses musical skill as a test to see whether or not Emma and co. are infected. They all pass, by singing terribly.

Video Games

• In Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book, Sophie mentions how much she likes to hear Monika sing at church. Several of Monika's character events explore this talent.
• In Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly, Lucas points out to Riona that sirens are better favored as sopranos because of their naturally alluring voices, to her disdain because she's a banshee who wishes to be an opera singer.
• Eternal Senia: Hydrangea After The Rain: Briella, as noted in multiple places:
  • One of the things Little Fairy can say when she's the character in the Start Screen and tapped, is:
    Briella's voice is beautiful! I want to hear her sing again!
  • When she's encountered singing in Balder, when all Senia just hears her voice, she thinks:
    What a beautiful voice...
• In the iconic Opera House storyline in Final Fantasy VI, Celes successfully pulls off a plot to board Setzer's airship by pretending to be an opera star and allowing herself to be kidnapped. In the course of doing this, she actually performs "Aria de Mezzo Caraterre" — a song written for a world-famous opera singer — and does so without embarrassing herself.
• Princess Garnett from Final Fantasy IX voice is also lovely, as Zidane is drawn all the way to the Castle of Lindblum, after hearing her ethereal singing her Lullaby.
• Yuna in Final Fantasy X-2 is able to quell a near civil war in Spira all due to holding a concert. In the same vein Lenne, the spirit within the Songstress sphere, along with being a summoner during the war, was a very popular Pop Idol in Zanarkand.
• Variation: Daddy Dearest of Friday Night Funkin' is an ex-rockstar and currently trying to rap in order to humiliate his daughter's boyfriend. The boyfriend himself admits in his Image Song that Dearest has "the voice of an angel when he's spitting [rhymes]", implying that he sounds very good in-universe.
• Kate Alen of F-Zero X is a megastar pop diva known for her soulful vocals, as well as her powerful dance moves. She became an F-Zero racer, not as a publicity stunt but in spite of her success as a singer.
• Marin from The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is noted as an excellent singer, with most of the series characters praising her voice at one point or another. It's so good, in fact, that the entire Animal Village drops what they're doing to listen to her sing, and this even becomes a plot point when Marin accompanies you there to wake up a particularly stubborn sleeping walrus.
• Luna from Lunar: The Silver Star is known within her village for her extraordinary singing voice. In fact, a common trait across all of Althena's reincarnations is their incredible singing ability, which is why Ghaleon starts searching for Althena by kidnapping talented singers.
• Yang from Lyrica is an aspiring musician whose talent lies in her powerful singing voice. She tries to learn other instruments, but due to her lack of skills in those area, she tends to mess up her beat, which hinders her singing from reaching its true potential.
• Played with by Manuela Hidalgo in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles. She really does have a lovely singing voice (which is even shown to soothe her mother Hilda—transformed into a B.O.W. by the effects of the T-Veronica virus—if she sings the lullaby her mother used to sing to her), but her singing causes Krauser to chastise her, as it'll bring attention to the group. The second time Krauser comments on her singing (this time during his perspective of the second and final battle with Hilda), he doesn't even note the quality of her voice, but the possibility that Hilda's strong reaction to the song was due to her previously being human.
• In Phantasy Star Online 2, Quna is famous for her singing voice in her public identity as an idol, and hosts most of the concerts on the ARKS Ships as a result. Her concerts are always packed and met with thunderous applause. Even before becoming an idol, Haddred would always become docile listening to her sing. His first and last words are to ask her to sing for him again.
• Sdorica has a couple of examples:
  • The mermaid Hestia, whose voice is reputed to make hardened criminals cry.
  • PAFF, a mysterious Idol Singer whose voice has made her a worldwide sensation, and for whom only singing brings any measure of happiness.
• Vermintide II: One bit of character banter in the Player Headquarters has Markus mention that he overheard the standoffish elf Kerillian singing a hauntingly beautiful song alone at night, a hint at her Hidden Depths.

Visual Novels

• The protagonist in Melody notes that the title character is an excellent singer upon hearing her sing for the first time. Justified in that Melody has loved music all her life.

Web Animation

• Weiss Schnee from RWBY is known to have an amazing singing voice. She is introduced in the White Trailer singing before a huge audience, during which she has a flashback to how she obtained the scar on her face. While in Beacon, Jaune cites her amazing singing voice as one of the reasons why he's so attracted to her. During Volume 4, Weiss's father, Jacques, takes advantage of her talent to host a benefit in aid of Vale where she is the star performer, the purpose of which is to improve his company's PR in light of the global Dust embargo.

Webcomics

• Cursed Princess Club: Maria, eldest princess of the Pastel Kingdom, is noted to have a beautiful singing voice. She personally wants to give a public exhibition of her singing talent (her fiancé Blaine offers to accompany her on piano, being the second best piano player in the land), but King Jack is resistant to her doing a public concert. Palace guard Beckett Dandridge falls in love with Maria entirely from hearing her singing, as the guards are forbidden from looking directly at the princesses' faces.
• In El Goonish Shive, Ellen has such a talent for singing that she can sing karaoke with her eyes closed and still get a perfect score.
• Elf & Warrior: Basri, surprisingly, despite being terrible at everything else, is a great singer. He quickly becomes famous throughout town, and Hector uses this to get rich. He gives it up to go back to trying to be a wizard.
• Umimi Shira of Kaiten Mutenmaru is a sheltered mermaid princess whose singing voice has magic properties, such as the ability to heal wounds. Mutenmaru mistakes her for an angel upon meeting her and hearing her voice.
• Sapient Arm Cannon Jabby from Spacetrawler is apparently a lovely tenor.
• Zoey from Sandra and Woo claims at one point that she has a voice like an angel. Turns out that this is Not Hyperbole, as when she gives a demonstration Larisa (who in a previous arc had accepted a Devil's Job Offer) starts bursting into flames.
• Buwaro from Slightly Damned turns out to have a natural talent for singing, with his girlfriend Kieri (an angel in whose culture excellent singers are considered attractive) being quite impressed.

Web Video

• Aquaman in Young Justice Abridged. Singing is an integral part of Atlantean culture, and their leaders are expected to be the best at it. Arthur sounds professional despite having no training, and his rendition of "My Heart Will Go On" is enough to prove to the Atlantean people that he's worthy of being their king.

Western Animation

• Rita^note Voiced by Bernadette Peters from Animaniacs is a cat who sings in almost every episode she appears in, which is also lampshaded in the theme song. Runt tells her several times that she's a good singer.
• Archer: It's discovered in season five that Cheryl is an amazing singer, but she only demonstrates her talent once she takes on the new Cherlene, who claims that Cheryl is gone. She's so good that she skyrockets to the top of the country music charts and is invited to the country of San Marcos after its president becomes enamored with her performances. After the season ends, Cheryl reverts back to her original personality and Cherlene becomes completely forgotten to her along with her stardom, so much so that she thinks Archer is joking when he asks her, incredulous, if she really doesn't remember being the top country star in the country.
• Of all people, Batman is shown to have this in the Justice League Unlimited episode "This Little Piggy". The sorceress Circe curses Wonder Woman, turning her into a pig, but is not so petty as to not give Batman a chance to restore Wondy to normal. Her terms? Batman must sing "Am I Blue?" at the Amphitheater on Mykonos. His performance is so riveting and suave that it moves both Circe and Zatanna to tears. Thank you, Kevin Conroy.
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Black Canary, complete with an entire musical episode giving her three different occasions to sing. Unfortunately, it also attracts the Music Meister to her.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Sweetie Belle is repeatedly noted for being a fine singer with a great voice, though she is absolutely terrified of singing in front of an audience. Ironically, she's more than willing to do things in front of an audience that she isn't even particularly good at — like stagecraft.
  • The episode "Filli Vanilli" has the Mane 6 discovering that Fluttershy has a beautiful singing voice, but while she enjoys singing in the company of her animals, she is terrified to sing in front of other ponies.
• Ready Jet Go!: Sean doesn't get to sing much outside of rhythmically talking during song numbers, but when he does sing, everyone acknowledges that he's got talent. Sean apparently gets this from Singing in the Shower. Jet spends a good chunk of "Holidays in Boxwood Terrace" gushing over Sean's beautiful singing voice.
• The Simpsons has several examples:
  • Sideshow Bob, who has the dulcet baritenor of Kelsey Grammer. Notably, in "Cape Feare", Bart uses his last request to have Bob sing the entirety of H.M.S. Pinafore to stall his death before their houseboat reaches Springfield.
  • Ned Flanders in "Bart's Girlfriend". His singing is so beautiful that Bart thought it was the siren song of Jessica Lovejoy, the Manipulative Bitch he had a crush on.
  • The episode "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" shows that, of all the recruited members of Homer's band The Be Sharps, Barney has the most beautiful Irish tenor voice. Homer, Apu, and Skinner discover this by accident and immediately recruit him for the group, quickly propelling The Be Sharps into enormous success.
  • In "The Homer of Seville", Homer discovers that he has an amazing operatic singing voice — good enough to bring a flatlining patient back from the dead — but only when lying flat on his back.
  • In "Homer's Triple Bypass", Homer is shown singing "O Holy Night" as a soloist in a choir. Grandpa Simpson comments on how Homer's voice will make him rich... and then Homer suddenly hits puberty and his voice breaks mid-song, giving him the voice he has now.
  • In "My Fair Laddy", Groundskeeper Willie is shown to have a great singing voice after becoming a perfect gentleman. After his song "Longing for the Shack", Mr. Largo (who had become his replacement as groundskeeper) sings the final line, then tells him that if he had his voice, he'd talk-sing everything.
• The titular SpongeBob SquarePants has been shown to have a fantastic singing voice that other characters are amazed by, especially in episodes like "Ripped Pants" and "Band Geeks", which of course employs the use of Singing Voice Dissonance for comedic effect. But the episode "Choir Boys" shows that SpongeBob's normal singing voice is quite angelic as well, enough to enchant some jellyfish and make him qualify to join the Bikini Bottom Men's Choir, much to Squidward's dismay.
• Total Drama:
  • Courtney's (voiced by Emilie-Claire Barlow) singing voice is surprisingly beautiful, so much that a Narcissist like Justin immediately falls for her upon hearing it. She's also the only character to enjoy the singing aspect of the third season, finding excuses to break into song and complaining when she doesn't participate in an episode's singing challenge.
  • Being a parody of several Disney princesses, Ella is a Friend to All Living Things whose singing is liked by animals. On the other hand, some characters like Chris and Sugar find her tendency to break into a song annoying.
• It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown features Mimi, a girl whom Linus meets while out rollerblading around the neighborhood. He is entranced when he overhears her singing, and after getting to know her, he's absolutely smitten. He can't get her voice out of his head.

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