Please answer the following question: Douglas John Ardito (born 10 March 1971) plays guitar and bass guitar for the band Puddle of Mudd. He is a Fender Musical Instruments endorsed artist.Ardito co-wrote Puddle of Mudd's biggest single Blurry. Guitar One Magazine voted Ardito's harmonic guitar part in Blurry as one of the Top Ten Riffs of the Decade. The song reached the #1 spot on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts for ten and nine weeks. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Artist