Man singer: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a medium-light skin tone wearing a star-shaped ornament over one eye, reminiscent of glam rock makeup. He is shown with an open mouth, capturing the energy of a live vocal performance.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to discuss music, concerts, karaoke nights, or to highlight someone who is talented or outgoing. It pairs well with 🎤 to represent singing or 🎸 when discussing band members. It captures the persona of a performer rather than just the act of singing.

History

The character design draws heavily from the iconic look popularized by David Bowie during his Ziggy Stardust era. It was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the effort to diversify human emojis by allowing skin tone modifiers on existing occupation and activity characters.

Details

Glyph

👨🏼‍🎤

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F3A4

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fc_200d_1f3a4:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83C;&#xDFA4;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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