Was Michael Jackson actually a better vocalist when he was a kid? Aha! I've been waiting for this question for a looooong time! When Michael Jackson was a child, his voice type was an extraordinarily beautiful, expansive boy soprano. There has never been a voice like his boy soprano, and there never will be anything like it. And then he matured, and his voice cracked, and his boy soprano descended into a lovely, rangy high tenor. So…was Michael's boy soprano better than his adult tenor voice? Well, let's do this! Beauty As a child, Michael Jackson's soprano was — you guessed it — very high, light and expansive. He could easily reach high keys that some talented female vocalist couldn't even reach. The colour of his voice was extremely bright. And it always sounded beautiful. As he matured, his voice became deeper, and his colour became noticeably darker as expected although it was still very light. He began to employ more vibrato which made his voice more appealin...