#instrumentalist__musician__player someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
supertype: #performer__performing_artist an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience
member of: #musical_organization
subtype: #accompanist__accompanyist a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano)
subtype: #bandsman a player in a band (especially a military band)
subtype: #bassoonist a musician who plays the bassoon
subtype: #bell_ringer__bellringer someone who plays musical handbells
subtype: #carillonneur a musician who plays a carillon
subtype: #cellist some who plays a violoncello
instance: #Pablo_Casals__Casals
subtype: #clarinetist__clarinettist a musician who plays the clarinet
instance: #Benjamin_David_Goodman__Goodman__goodman__Benny_Goodman__the_King_of_Swing
subtype: #flutist__flute_player__fluteplayer someone who plays the flute
subtype: #guitarist__guitar_player a musician who plays the guitar
instance: #James_Marshall_Hendrix__Hendrix__Jimi_Hendrix #Riley_B_King__King__B._B._King #Andres_Segovia__Segovia__segovia
subtype: #harpist__harper someone who plays the harp
subtype: #harpsichordist someone who plays the harpsichord
instance: #Wanda_Landowska__Landowska
subtype: #jazz_musician__jazzman a musician who plays or composes jazz music
subtype: #syncopator a musician who plays syncopated jazz music (usually in a dance band); "they called themselves the Dixie Syncopators"
instance: #Louis_Armstrong__Armstrong__Satchmo #Miles_Dewey_Davis_Jr.__Davis__Miles_Davis #Edward_Kennedy_Ellington__Ellington__Duke_Ellington #Lionel_Hampton__Hampton__hampton #Woodrow_Charles_Herman__Herman__Woody_Herman #Thelonious_Sphere_Monk__Monk__Thelonious_Monk #Ferdinand_Joseph_La_Menthe_Morton__Morton__Jelly_Roll_Morton #King_Oliver__Oliver__Joseph_Oliveer #Arthur_Tatum__Tatum__Art_Tatum #Thomas_Wright_Waller__Waller__Fats_Waller
subtype: #koto_player a (Japanese) musician who plays the koto
subtype: #lutist__lutanist__lutenist a musician who plays the lute
subtype: #oboist a musician who plays the oboe
subtype: #organist a person who plays an organ
instance: #Johann_Sebastian_Bach__Bach #Albert_Schweitzer__Schweitzer
subtype: #percussionist a musician who plays percussion instruments
subtype: #drummer someone who plays a drum
subtype: #tympanist__timpanist a person who plays the kettledrums
instance: #Ringo_Starr__Starr__Richard_Starkey
subtype: #xylophonist someone who plays a xylophone
subtype: #pianist__piano_player__pianoplayer a person who plays the piano
instance: #Frederic_Francois_Chopin__Chopin #Karl_Czerny__Czerny #Dame_Myra_Hess__Hess #Vladimir_Horowitz__Horowitz #Jerry_Lee_Lewis__Lewis #Franz_Liszt__Liszt #Ignace_Jan_Paderewski__Paderewski #Sergei_Vasilievich_Rachmaninoff__Rachmaninoff__Sergei_Rachmaninoff__Rachmaninov__Sergei_Rachmaninov__Sergei_Vasilievich_Rachmaninov #Anton_Grigorevich_Rubinstein__Rubinstein__Anton_Gregor_Rubinstein #Arthur_Rubinstein__Rubinstein__Artur_Rubinstein #Artur_Schnabel__Schnabel #Rudolf_Serkin__Serkin
subtype: #piper__bagpiper someone who plays the bagpipe
subtype: #pipe_major the chief piper in a band of bagpipes
subtype: #recorder_player someone who plays the recorder
subtype: #rhythm_and_blues_musician a performer (and sometimes composer) of rhythm and blues music
instance: #Antoine_Domino__Domino__Fats_Domino
subtype: #rock_'n'_roll_musician__rocker a performer (or composer) of rock music
subtype: #rock_star a famous singer of rock music
instance: #Charles_Edward_Berry__Berry__Chuck_Berry #William_John_Clifton_Haley_Jr.__Haley__Bill_Haley #George_Harrison__Harrison #Buddy_Holly__Holly__Charles_Hardin_Holley #Michael_Philip_Jagger__Jagger__Mick_Jagger #John_Lennon__Lennon #Jerry_Lee_Lewis__Lewis #Sir_James_Paul_McCartney__McCartney__Paul_McCartney #James_Douglas_Morrison__Morrison__Jim_Morrison #Elvis_Aron_Presley__Presley__Elvis_Presley #Ringo_Starr__Starr__Richard_Starkey
subtype: #saxophonist a musician who plays the saxophone
instance: #Coleman_Hawkins__colemanhawkin__Hawkins #Charles_Christopher_Parker__Parker__Charlie_Parker__Yardbird_Parker__Bird_Parker #Lester_Willis_Young__Young__Pres_Young
subtype: #singer__vocalist__vocalizer__vocaliser a person who sings
subtype: #alto.singer a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef
subtype: #countertenor a male singer with a voice above that of a tenor
subtype: #baritone__barytone a male singer
subtype: #basso__bass an adult male singer with the lowest voice
subtype: #canary (informal) a female singer
subtype: #caroler__caroller a singer of carols
subtype: #castrato a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice
subtype: #chorister a singer in a choir
subtype: #choirboy a boy who sings in a choir
subtype: #contralto a woman singer having a contralto voice
instance: #Marian_Anderson__Anderson #Ernestine_Schumann-Heink__Schumann-Heink
subtype: #crooner__balladeer a singer of popular ballads
instance: #Harry_Lillis_Crosby__Crosby__Bing_Crosby #Francis_Albert_Sinatra__Sinatra__Frank_Sinatra
subtype: #folk_singer__jongleur__minstrel__poet-singer__troubadour a singer of folk songs
instance: #Woodrow_Wilson_Guthrie__Guthrie__Woody_Guthrie #Peter_Seeger__Seeger__Pete_Seeger
subtype: #hummer a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words
subtype: #lieder_singer a singer of lieder
subtype: #madrigalist a singer of madrigals
subtype: #opera_star__operastar__operatic_star singer of lead role in an opera
subtype: #diva__prima_donna a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star
subtype: #rock_star a famous singer of rock music
subtype: #songster a person who sings
subtype: #songstress a woman songster (especially of popular songs)
subtype: #soprano a female singer
subtype: #coloratura_soprano__coloratura a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music
instance: #Maria_Meneghini_Callas__Callas__Maria_Callas #Dame_Nellie_Melba__Melba__Helen_Porter_Mitchell
subtype: #mezzo__mezzo-soprano a soprano with a voice between soprano and contralto
instance: #Eileen_Farrell__Farrell #Jenny_Lind__Lind__Swedish_Nightingale #Marta_Brigit_Nilsson__Nilsson__Brigit_Nilsson #Jessye_Norman__Norman #Mary_Leontyne_Price__Price__Leontyne_Price #Beverly_Sills__Sills #Dame_Joan_Sutherland__Sutherland__Joan_Sutherland #Renata_Tebaldi__Tebaldi #Dame_Kiri_Janette_Te_Kanawa__Te_Kanawa__Dame_Kiri_Te_Kanawa #Helen_Traubel__Traubel
subtype: #tenor an adult male with a tenor voice
instance: #Enrico_Caruso__Caruso #Placido_Domingo__Domingo__domingo #John_McCormick__McCormick #Lauritz_Lebrecht_Hommel_Melchior__Melchior__Lauritz_Melchior #Luciano_Pavarotti__Pavarotti
subtype: #thrush.singer (informal) a woman who sings popular songs
subtype: #torch_singer__torchsinger a singer (usually a woman) who specializes in singing torch songs
subtype: #voice.singer (metonymy) a singer; "he wanted to hear trained voices sing it"
subtype: #yodeller a singer who changes register rapidly (popular is Swiss folk songs)
instance: #Pearl_Mae_Bailey__Bailey__Pearl_Bailey #Maurice_Chevalier__Chevalier #Marlene_Dietrich__Dietrich__Maria_Magdalene_von_Losch #Bob_Dylan__Dylan #Ella_Fitzgerald__Fitzgerald #Judy_Garland__Garland #Julio_Iglesias__Iglesias #Mahalia_Jackson__Jackson #Michael_Joe_Jackson__Jackson__Michael_Jackson #Al_Jolson__Jolson__Asa_Yoelson #Janis_Joplin__Joplin #Riley_B_King__King__B._B._King #Sir_Harry_MacLennan_Lauder__Lauder__Harry_Lauder #Madonna_Louise_Ciccone__Madonna #Robert_Nesta_Marley__Marley__Bob_Marley #Dean_Martin__Dino_Paul_Crocetti__Martin #Ethel_Merman__Merman #Roy_Orbison__Orbison #Edith_Piaf__Piaf__Edith_Giovanna_Gassion__Little_Sparrow #Paul_Bustill_Robeson__Robeson__robeson__paulrobeson #Paul_Simon__Simon #Bessie_Smith__Smith #Kathryn_Elizabeth_Smith__Smith__Kate_Smith #Barbra_Joan_Streisand__Streisand__Barbra_Streisand #Sarah_Vaughan__Vaughan #Ethel_Waters__Waters #Tammy_Wynette__Wynette__Tammy_Wynetter_Pugh
subtype: #sitar_player__sitarplayer a musician who plays the sitar
instance: #Ravi_Shankar__Shankar
subtype: #soloist a musician who performs a solo
subtype: #recitalist a musician who gives recitals
subtype: #trombonist__trombone_player a musician who plays the trombone
subtype: #cornetist__trumpeter a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet
subtype: #bugler someone who plays a bugle
instance: #Louis_Armstrong__Armstrong__Satchmo #John_Birks_Gillespie__Gillespie__Dizzy_Gillespie
subtype: #violinist__fiddler a musician who plays the violin
instance: #Georges_Enesco__Enesco__George_Enescu #Stephane_Grappelli__Grappelli #Fritz_Kreisler__Kreisler #Sir_Yehudi_Menuhin__Menuhin__Yehudi_Menuhin #Niccolo_Paganini__Paganini #Isaac_Stern__Stern #Antonio_Lucio_Vivaldi__Vivaldi__Antonio_Vivaldi #Efrem_Zimbalist__Zimbalist #Pinchas_Zukerman__Zukerman
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