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Little research has been conducted to gauge a listener’s ability to recognise or identify speakers when presented with samples of singing within the field of Forensic Speech Science. Eight friends and two foil speakers were recorded speaking and singing to investigate the effects of speaker familiarity and singing in speaker identification tasks. The stimuli were used to create a listening test completed by close social network speakers, members of the wider social network, and general lay listeners. The study aimed to explore the impact of familiarity on an individual’s ability to recognise speakers when presented with spoken and sung stimuli. The results revealed that the listeners within the close social network were the most successful in the listening test. Overall, listeners performed best when both samples were spoken, however, those in the close social network were less affected by the use of sung samples, and scored higher, compared to those outside the close social network.