singer

person singing for a listening audience
Intangible musical_occupation Q177220
singer
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A singer is a musical occupation [1].

Key Facts

  • Instance of: profession[3]
  • Subclass of: musician[4], creative and performing artist[5], music artist[6]
  • Commons category: Vocalists[7]
  • Field of this occupation: singing[8], vocal performance[9]
  • Said to be the same as: music interpreter[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Singers[11]
  • Product or material produced: song[12]
  • Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[13]
  • Main Wikidata property: P175[14]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Singer[15]
  • Different from: I Am a Singer[16]
  • Properties for this type: P412[17]
  • Uses: voice[18]
  • Has list: list of singers[19]
  • Female form of label: مغنية[20], مغنيه[21], cantante[22], спявачка[23], сьпявачка[24], গায়িকা[25], cantant[26], yırcı[27], zpěvačka[28], cantores[29], Sängerin[30], τραγουδίστρια[31], kantistino[32], songkvinna[33]

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Influence

Things named for singer include Singer[34], a family name[35].

Why It Matters

singer has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] singer is known by 126 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

Entities named for singer include Singer[34], a family name[35].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . RKDthesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . International Standard Classification of Occupations. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . DBpedia. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . 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.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [35] ↑ . 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. [36] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 16d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'ast', 'ay', 'az', 'azb', 'ban', 'bcl', 'be', '
    Sitelink count → 123
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||ban, sq */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
  2. 10w ago · Superraptor123 · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → musician, creative and performing artist, music artist
    Harper's tag → singers
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Subclass of: music artist"
  3. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q296146
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q296146, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  4. 12w ago · Alain Schneider · 2026-07-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Female form of label → {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'مغنية'}, {'lang': 'arz', 'text': 'مغنيه'}, {'lang': 'ary', 'text': 'مغنية'} +47
    Said to be the same as → music interpreter
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Said to be the same as: music interpreter"
  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001592-zpevaci, h0008874-zpevacky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001592-zpevaci, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  6. 20w ago · Jheald · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → musical occupation, profession
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Instance of: occupation group according to ISCO-08, Moving to Q139916675"
  7. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ Yso id: 2352, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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