Although I mostly just do it in the privacy of my home these days
, I have had a little vocal training, sung in choruses, impressed pals at karaoke
, etc... My voice is basically contralto, can get a bit into mezzo-soprano range, and I find that Bono often sings in a higher key (on record at least) than me!
My falsetto is just about as shot as Bono's so anything that has that, forget about it. Being able to sing Lemon is just a distant dream now...
I can do the real shouty parts on tunes like Bad and Pride, but I do have problems on the whoo-hoo's like on Bad and and wahoo-oo-oo-oo's on In A Little While. Otherwise, I can sing the rest of both songs quite well.
While the ranges are OK, for some reason I just can't do songs like Beautiful Day, With or Without You and Mysterious Ways well. Can't quite put my finger on why that is, but they are just not suited for my voice. I think my mouth just can't move itself around the melody. And Stay's just all wrong for me, just can't find a key that fits both me and the song.
A lot of U2 songs are like that for me, they're really hard for me to do (more in terms of getting my voice around the song than being able to hit notes), it's like only Bono can really do them justice. The more recent stuff is easier for me than stuff from JT, AB, etc.