Polyphonic Overtone Singing? How to Sing Two Notes At the Same Time

Anna-Maria Hefele is not your ordinary vocalist.  She sings using a “throat singing” technique called polyphonic overtone, which enables her to sing more than one pitch at the same time.  She’s able to create contrary, parallel, and oblique harmonies…by herself.  Check out the video above to see Anne-Maria in action.

Here’s some more information on Polyphonic overtone singing…it began in southwestern Mongolia (known as sygyt) but this style of singing is practiced in  many countries around the world with different adaptations.  For example in South Africa some women (Thembu Xhosa) have a low, rhythmic style of throat-singing, while Tuvan throat singing (known as Khoomei) is tradtionally  a softer sounding style usually in the low-mid to midrange of the singer’s normal voice.

Also note, this isn’t just a lesson in a unique style of singing, but this also shows you the power of viral videos.  She had an interesting topic, and has well over 3.7 million views in only 1 week.