Singer: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium-dark skin wearing a headset microphone and singing into it. The design typically shows a professional performer mid-song, capturing the energy of a live musical act.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to for discussing live concerts, music rehearsals, or karaoke nights. It is frequently used by fans to highlight their favorite artists or to indicate that someone is currently singing. It pairs naturally with musical instrument emojis like 🎸 or 🎤 to describe a performance.

History

While the base singer emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016, the ability to modify skin tones was expanded in later updates to ensure more diverse representation across global digital platforms. The design draws inspiration from classic concert imagery found in early internet forum culture and chat icons.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏾‍🎤

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F3A4

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_1f3a4:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#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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