aficionado

aficionado
    n 1: a fan of bull fighting
    2: a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical
       performer
    

73 Moby Thesaurus words for "aficionado":
      Maecenas, abettor, admirer, advocate, amateur, angel, apologist,
      attender, audience, authority, backer, buff, bug, champion,
      connoisseur, crank, critic, defender, dependence, devotee,
      dilettante, encourager, endorser, energumen, enthusiast, expert,
      exponent, fan, fanatic, fanatico, favorer, freak, frequenter,
      friend at court, habitue, haunter, infatuate, lover,
      lunatic fringe, mainstay, maintainer, monomaniac, nut, paranymph,
      partisan, patron, promoter, protagonist, pundit, reliance, savant,
      scholar, second, seconder, sectary, sider, specialist, spectator,
      sponsor, stalwart, standby, support, supporter, sustainer,
      sympathizer, technical expert, technician, theatergoer, upholder,
      visitor, votary, well-wisher, zealot