Tim Storms is an American singer and composer. He holds the Guinness World Records for "lowest note produced by a human" and the "widest vocal range".

Musical career

Although born in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...

, Storms was raised in Waterloo, Indiana

Waterloo, Indiana

Waterloo is a town in Grant and Smithfield townships, DeKalb County, Indiana, United States. The population was 2,242 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Waterloo is located at ....

. His musical affinity appeared at a young age. Four days after graduating high school, he returned to Oklahoma to begin his career in Christian music. Since then, Storms has appeared with a number of singing groups, including Freedom, Vocal Union, AVB, Acappella

Acappella

Acappella may refer to:* Acapella , by Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge* Acappella...

, and Rescue

Rescue (group)

Rescue is a Christian a cappella quartet of musical performers operating out of Gresham, OR. The group started as a quartet in 1996 consisting of Jason Overstreet, Jason McKenney, Chad Krober, and Matt Lusk and released their first album in 1999. Tim Storms, who set a Guinness World Record for...

. He also performed with the cast of Branson’s

Branson, Missouri

Branson is a city in Taney County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It was named after Reuben Branson, postmaster and operator of a general store in the area in the 1880s....

 "50’s at the Hop," was voted Branson’s Bass Singer of the Year for three years in a row, and is in the Branson’s Entertainers Hall of Fame. Storms joined Pierce Arrow Theater at the beginning of the 2006 season.

As well as his performances across the US

United States

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, Storms has also performed in Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

, France

France

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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, Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

, and Fiji

Fiji

Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

.

Guinness World Record

Storms's Guinness World Record for the lowest note produced by a human was certified in January 2002. Storms also holds the Guinness World Record for the widest vocal range

Vocal range

Vocal range is the measure of the breadth of pitches that a human voice can phonate. Although the study of vocal range has little practical application in terms of speech, it is a topic of study within linguistics, phonetics, and speech and language pathology, particularly in relation to the study...

 for a male. His records have been published in the Guinness World Records 2006. He broke both of these records in August 2008.He is able to reach a full 5 octaves below Middle C

Middle C

C or Do is the first note of the fixed-Do solfège scale. Its enharmonic is B.-Middle C:Middle C is designated C4 in scientific pitch notation because of the note's position as the fourth C key on a standard 88-key piano keyboard...

 and reach a sound of just 8 hertz

Hertz

The hertz is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications....

 which is inaudible to the human ear. The previous record was 16.5 hertz, just over a full octave higher.

Storms currently resides in Branson, Missouri

Branson, Missouri

Branson is a city in Taney County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It was named after Reuben Branson, postmaster and operator of a general store in the area in the 1880s....

, with his wife Angie, daughter Emma, and son Evan.

External links

• www.TimStorms.net Official Site of Tim Storms (under development)
• Official site of Pierce Arrow Theater
• 50's At The Hop
• Official Site of Rescue Music
• Tim Storms Singing Amazing Grace with Rescue