User:TUF-KAT/List of types of musicians


 * buayo: See jago
 * calypsonian: Though the term calypsonian may often be used interchangeably with calypso singer, it can also be used to distinguish between those performers who compose their own song texts (calypsonians) and those who do not (calypso singer).
 * compadrito: The Argentinian compadrito is a tough, knife-fighting, womanizing hooligan who, despite his demeanor, suffers "the wounds of romantic betrayal", and is associated with tango music.
 * damai: A damai is an untouchable cast of tailors and musicians in Nepal.
 * DJ
 * emcee
 * fadista
 * gaine: A gaine is a caste of musicians and fishermen in Nepal.
 * griot: Griots are a hereditary class of West African musicians, traditionally performing in honor of a patron in the form of a praise song.
 * jago: A jago (lit. rooster, closely associated with the term buayo, lit. crocodile) is a Javanese archetype of a seductive, violent and heavy-drinking man, associated with the urban kroncong genre
 * liumang: Liumang is a modern Chinese youth culture, associated wth "lumpen, uninhibited, denim-clad youths, whether they be unemployed, frustrated intellectuals, fashion-conscious studnts or anti-social thugs"; they are associated with Western rock music, and are very often rock guitarists.
 * manges: See rebetes
 * minstrel
 * pesinden: A pesinden is a star singer in a Javanese gamelan ensemble; the phenomenon of virtuoso gamelan vocalists is a new and unprecedented development in the history of that style.
 * rebetes: The rebetes (or manges) were a class of urban Greek poor, many of them criminals, drug addicts and homeless, often immigrants from rural areas dispossed in the city of Athens; the rebetes were the primary developers of rebetiko music.
 * shaykh: A shaykh (pl. mashayikh) is a Muslim term for a classical and religious singer who specialized in saints' days and weddings; the term also implies a "learned man... an educated, mature, observant Muslim".
 * ronggeng: A ronggeng is the vocalist and central figure in the Indonesian ketuk tilu folk music and dance tradition, as well as modern jaipongan; the ronggeng is assumed to be a prostitute
 * troubadour
 * trovadore
 * vallenato: The Colombian term vallenato refers to a style of music, as well as the ensembles that play it, and the musicians that make up that ensemble.