Artist

A creative entity that releases music — a person, a group, an orchestra or an AI project. Artists are credited on Albums and Tracks, and carry identity, origin, lifespan, verification, aliases, group memberships and social links.

1 Full schema

Artist inherits from BaseModel (Id, CreatedAtUtc, UpdatedAtUtc) and is mapped to the artists table.

public class Artist : BaseModel
{
    public required string Name { get; set; }
    public required string Biography { get; set; }
    public ArtistStatus Status { get; set; } = ArtistStatus.Draft;

    public Guid? OwnerUserId { get; set; }
    public User? Owner { get; set; }

    // Type and origin
    public ArtistType Type { get; set; } = ArtistType.Person;
    public string? CountryCode { get; set; }
    public long? OriginStateId { get; set; }
    public PlaceState? OriginState { get; set; }
    public long? OriginCityId { get; set; }
    public PlaceCity? OriginCity { get; set; }
    public string? OriginCustomLocation { get; set; }

    // Lifespan
    public int? StartYear { get; set; }
    public int? EndYear { get; set; }
    public ArtistEndReason? EndReason { get; set; }

    // Verification
    public VerificationLevel VerificationLevel { get; set; } = VerificationLevel.None;
    public DateTime? VerifiedAtUtc { get; set; }
    public Guid? VerifiedByUserId { get; set; }

    // AI-specific
    public bool IsAiGenerated { get; set; }
    public string? AiModelTag { get; set; }
    public string? AiModelTagCustom { get; set; }

    // Navigations
    public ICollection<ArtistAlias>      Aliases     { get; set; } = [];
    public ICollection<ArtistMembership> Memberships { get; set; } = [];
    public ICollection<ArtistMembership> MemberOf    { get; set; } = [];
    public ICollection<ArtistSocialLink> SocialLinks { get; set; } = [];
    public ICollection<ArtistImage>      Images      { get; set; } = [];
    public ICollection<Genre>            Genres      { get; set; } = [];
    public ICollection<Album>            Albums      { get; set; } = [];
    public ICollection<Track>            Tracks      { get; set; } = [];
}

2 Identity & status

3 Type & origin

4 Lifespan

5 Verification

6 AI-specific

7 Enums

ArtistStatus

ArtistType

ArtistEndReason

VerificationLevel

8 ArtistAlias

Alternative names for an artist — stage names, birth names, translations, romanisations. Used to broaden search and to render the right name per locale.

ArtistAliasType

9 ArtistMembership

Links a member artist to a group artist — both sides are Artist rows. This models band line-ups, AI collectives, and so on.

A unique index on (GroupArtistId, MemberArtistId, Role) prevents duplicate membership rows.

MembershipRole

10 ArtistSocialLink

External links for an artist — streaming profiles, social media, and AI-platform pages.

SocialPlatform

Streaming & music: Spotify (0), AppleMusic (1), Bandcamp (2), SoundCloud (3), YouTube (4). Social: Instagram (5), TikTok (6), X (7), Facebook (8), Threads (9), Website (10), Discord (11), Twitch (12). AI & creator platforms: Suno (13), Udio (14), HuggingFace (15), GitHub (16), Patreon (17), KoFi (18), Substack (19).

11 ArtistImage

A resized variant of an artist's imagery. Identical in shape to AlbumImage — it implements the same IImageVariantRecord interface — with ArtistId in place of AlbumId.

12 Relationships