Given the question: Francesco De Gregori - Francesco De Gregori Officer OMRI (born 4 April 1951) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He is popularly known as Il Principe dei cantautori (The Prince of the singer-songwriters) a nickname referring to the elegance of his lyrics.He is often referred as singer-songwriter and poet although he prefers to be identified simply as artist. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
The answer is:
Artist