vocalist vs musician

vocalist and musician both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
vocalist	Yes	No	No	No
musician	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, musician is a hypernym of vocalist; that is, musician is a word with a broader meaning than vocalist:

Other hypernyms of vocalist include instrumentalist, player.

vocalist (noun)	musician (noun)
a person who sings	artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
	someone who plays a music as a profession