musician

person who composes, conducts or performs music
Intangible musical_profession Q639669
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Summary

musician is a musical profession[1]. musician draws 7,544 Wikipedia views per month (musical profession category, ranking #7 of 60).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: occupation[3], circus profession[4]
  • Subclass of: artist[5]
  • Commons category: Musicians[6]
  • Field of this occupation: music[7]
  • Industry: creative industries[8]
  • Said to be the same as: music artist[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Musicians[10]
  • Commons gallery: Musician[11]
  • Described by source: Riemann's Music Dictionary[12], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[14], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[15]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox musical artist[16]
  • Main Wikidata property: P175[17]
  • Different from: performing artist[18], music professional[19], instrumentalist[20]
  • Properties for this type: P136[21], P1303[22]
  • Has list: lists of musicians[23]
  • Female form of label: موسيقية[24], فنانة موسيقية[25], مزيكاتيه[26], música[27], hudebnice[28], Musikerin[29], muzikistino[30], musicienne[31], mawaƙiya[32], מוזיקאית[33], Musekerin[34], musica[35], mūziķe[36], muzikante[37]

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Influence

Things named for musician include A-Sketch[38], a business[39], in Japan[40], founded in 2008[41], headquartered in Sakuragaokachō[42].

Why It Matters

musician has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] musician is known by 87 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]

Entities named for musician include A-Sketch[38], a business[39], in Japan[40], founded in 2008[41], headquartered in Sakuragaokachō[42].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [43] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [44] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 120
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'bcl', 'be', 'bew', '
    Isocat id → 1765
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 1765, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7331606|Musician (#7331606)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 7w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → musicians
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: musicians, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289955374|musicians (#289955374)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  3. 7w ago · M.L.Bot · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Female form of label → {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'موسيقية'}, {'lang': 'ary', 'text': 'فنانة موسيقية'}, {'lang': 'arz', 'text': 'مزيكاتيه'} +30
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Female form of label: музыкантка"
  4. 13w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Sapir
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q294938, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  5. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0332578-hudebnice, h0003206-hudebnici
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0332578-hudebnice, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
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