A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument like a guitar or a piano or a person that sings.

A musician is also someone who writes music, even if they write it for other people to play. People who write music are called composers. Usually that part is left out if they also play or sing the music they write, but they are still composers because they wrote the music.

Here are some musicians whose songs you might have heard:

• Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer)
• Bob Marley (Plays the electric guitar, also sings)
• Paul McCartney (Singer, plays the piano)
• Michael Jackson (Singer)
• Jimi Hendrix (Plays the electric guitar, also sings)
• Ali Khan (Singer, plays the sitar)
• Yusuf Islam (Singer)
• Wei Wei (Singer)

Musicians can also make a group together to play songs. If the group is lots of people playing instruments together, like Beethoven's music, it is called an orchestra. If it is just lots of people singing, like in a church, it is called a choir. If it is only a few people together it is usually just called a band. Sometimes a band has the same name as the singer.

Here are some bands you might have heard:

• The Beatles
• U2

And here are some orchestras you might have heard:

• The London Symphony Orchestra
• The Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra,Serbia and Montenegro
• The Nis Philharmonic Orchestra,Serbia and Montenegro
• The Novi Sad Phiharmonic Orchestra,Serbia and Montenegro
• The Amoroso String Orchestra from Leskovac,Serbia and Montenegro

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