End Date of an Artist

Description

The "end date" property of an Artist stores the date of when it stopped existing. The meaning of the date depends on the ArtistType:

Additional information

• For persons it means the date of death (be it on PerformanceNames or LegalNames).

• For groups it means the date when the group last dissolved. So if a group dissolved and then reunited, the date is that of when they last dissolved (if at all). It is currently not possible to store multiple periods of time for groups (you could describe such facts in the ArtistAnnotation). An empty end date means either the group still performs or it is unknown when they dissolved.

Like all dates in MusicBrainz (ReleaseDates, dates in AdvancedRelationships, LabelBeginDate and LabelEndDate) the end date of an artist can vary in its accuracy from just a year to the exact day. You cannot enter just a day without specifying a month or just a month without a year though.

The end date of an artist corresponds with the ArtistBeginDate.

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