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 Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.

Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.

MIT License Fluent Emoji Repository