Are singers musicians?


Are lead vocalists who do not play an instrument considered musicians?
I realize the training it must take to be an accomplished opera singer and the not so much training to be a rock singer but are these performers technically musicians?
dreadhead

Showing 1 response by gawdbless

I remember when the local authority (city hall) received a noise pollution complaint about Ms Ono's piano playing, I thought to myself at the time that I would not complain about her piano playing, but only when she started to sing,lol.

Johnny Rotten's voice is ok, I mean when he sang in his group P.I.L he fitted the songs well, and they were really good songs to!
Perhaps there is a spot for Bob Dylan, like after ...awful....

I am sure when a 'singer' needs to right on a form 'occupation', that do indeed (and quite correctly) put musician as their occupation as opposed to something like
throat warbler..............