Q:Mickey Leroy Gilley (born March 9 1936) is an American country music singer and musician. Although he started out singing straight-up country and western material in the 1970s he moved towards a more pop-friendly sound in the 1980s bringing him further success on not just the country charts but the pop charts as well.Among his biggest hits are Room Full of Roses Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time and the remake of the Soul hit Stand by Me. 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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