List of people with absolute pitch

This is a list of notable people with absolute pitch, or "perfect pitch".

Note for pre-19th century composers

Owing to uncertainty in the historical record, it is often impossible to determine whether composers and musicians of the past had absolute pitch. Since absolute pitch is rare in European musical culture,[1] claims that any particular musician possessed it are difficult to evaluate. Among composers of the Baroque and Classical eras, evidence is available only for Mozart, who is documented to have demonstrated the ability at age 7.[2] Experts have only surmised that Beethoven had it, as indicated from some excerpts from his letters. By the 19th century, it became more common for the presence of absolute pitch to be recorded, identifying the ability to be present in musicians such as Camille Saint-Saëns and John Philip Sousa.[3]

List
Mariah Carey
Whitney Houston
Michael Jackson
Name Year of birth Year of death Description
Bill Bailey[4] 1965 (living) British comedian, musician and actor
Ludwig van Beethoven[5] 1770 1827 German composer and pianist
Joshua Bell[6] 1967 (living) American violinist and conductor
Mariah Carey[5][7][8] 1969 (living) American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer
Ray Charles[6] 1930 2004 American musician
Frédéric Chopin[5] 1810 1849 Polish composer and pianist
Jacob Collier[9][10] 1994 (living) English singer, composer and producer
Celine Dion[11] 1968 (living) Canadian singer
Ella Fitzgerald[12] 1917 1996 American jazz singer
Charly García[13][14] 1951 (living) Argentine singer-songwriter, musician and record producer
Glenn Gould[15] 1932 1982 Canadian classical pianist
Whitney Houston[16] 1963 2012 American singer and actress
Michael Jackson[5] 1958 2009 American singer, songwriter and dancer
Dimash Kudaibergen[17] 1994 (living) Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
W. A. Mozart[18][5] 1756 1791 Austrian composer
Itzhak Perlman[6] 1945 (living) Israeli-American violinist
Charlie Puth[19][20] 1991 (living) American singer, songwriter, and record producer
Sviatoslav Richter[6] 1915 1997 Russian classical pianist
Arthur Rubinstein[6] 1887 1982 Polish-American pianist
Lea Salonga[21][22] 1971 (living) Filipina singer, actress, producer, and columnist
Art Tatum[6] 1909 1956 American jazz pianist
Arturo Toscanini[6] 1867 1957 Italian conductor
Brian Wilson[23] 1942 (living) American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the Beach Boys
Stevie Wonder[6] 1950 (living) American musician
Yo-Yo Ma[24] 1955 (living) American cellist

References
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  15. Ostwald, Peter F. (1997). Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius. New York: W. W. Norton. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-393-04077-7.
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