Learning to Sing Like Joss Stone

Joss Stone’s bluesy, soulful style has brought her international recognition, multiple awards, and collaborations with artists like Mick Jagger, James Brown and Gladys Knight. If you want to learn to sing like Joss Stone, here are some practical tips and Singing Carrots resources to get you started.

Vocal Characteristics

Joss Stone’s voice is characterized by her rich and soulful tone, often compared to classic R&B and Soul singers like Aretha Franklin. Her music is marked by a relaxed, sultry, and effortless delivery, even in her lower range.

Some characteristics of Joss Stone’s vocal style include:

• Vibrato: She uses a natural and expressive vibrato, that gives her voice a rich and warm quality.
• Voice placement: She tends to sing with a relaxed larynx, which allows for greater resonance and volume in her sound.
• Timbre: The unique quality of Joss Stone’s voice is in her natural depth, which results in a rich, warm tone within a limited range.

Here are some of Joss Stone’s most popular songs that showcase these vocal qualities:

• Super Duper Love
• Right to be Wrong
• Fell in Love with a Boy

Vocal Techniques

To develop the necessary vocal skills to sing like Joss Stone, here are some techniques to practice:

Breath Support

Breath support plays a crucial role in Joss Stone’s relaxed and effortless vocal style. To develop breath support, try this exercise from Singing Carrots:

Farinelli Breathing

Vibrato

To develop vibrato like Joss Stone, try these Singing Carrots exercises:

• Beggars Bounce
• Diaphragm Bounce

Warm-ups

Warming up your voice before singing is essential to achieving Joss Stone’s relaxed but powerful style.

• 3 Minute Warm Up

Breathing Basics

Developing proper breathing habits can enhance the resonance and tone of your voice.

• Active and passive breathing
• Breath support & respiration

Pitch accuracy

Joss Stone’s music often features sustained notes, which requires good pitch accuracy.

• Pitch accuracy test

Vocal Range

Knowing your vocal range and how to expand it will help you to develop Joss Stone’s sultry, powerful voice.

• Vocal range test

Singing Carrots Training

Singing Carrots offers an array of resources to help you master the techniques to sing like Joss Stone.

Pitch Training

The pitch training program can help you to improve your pitch accuracy and train your ear to develop vibrato and other essential techniques.

• Pitch Training: Educational Singing Game

Song search

Finding songs that match your vocal range, difficulty, and genre preference is essential to refining your skills. Search songs by vocal range and genre:

• Search songs by vocal range

Singing Course

Singing Carrots’ 21-lesson program offers practical tips for beginners and advanced singers alike, covering singing theory and practical exercises.

• Educational singing course

By practicing these techniques and using Singing Carrots resources, you can learn to sing like Joss Stone and develop your own unique soulful style.