diff --git a/lib/WebService/MusicBrainz.pm b/lib/WebService/MusicBrainz.pm
index 425d11b..407f670 100644
--- a/lib/WebService/MusicBrainz.pm
+++ b/lib/WebService/MusicBrainz.pm
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ has search_fields_by_resource => sub {
     $search_fields{artist} = [
         'area',   'beginarea', 'endarea',  'arid',    'artist', 'artistaccent',
         'alias',  'begin',     'comment',  'country', 'end',    'ended',
-        'gender', 'ipi',       'sortname', 'tag',     'type'
+        'gender', 'ipi',       'sortname', 'status', 'tag',     'type'
     ];
     $search_fields{discid} = ['discid'];
     $search_fields{label}  = [
diff --git a/lib/WebService/MusicBrainz/Request.pm b/lib/WebService/MusicBrainz/Request.pm
index 2e64d37..7237a00 100644
--- a/lib/WebService/MusicBrainz/Request.pm
+++ b/lib/WebService/MusicBrainz/Request.pm
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ our $VERSION = '1.0';
 
 binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)";
 
+my @not_in_query = (qw(
+  status type
+));
+
 sub make_url {
     my $self = shift;
 
@@ -48,7 +52,7 @@ sub make_url {
 
     $url_str .= '?fmt=' . $self->format;
 
-    if(scalar(@{ $self->inc }) > 0) {
+    if(scalar(@{ $self->inc }) > 0) { 
         my $inc_query = join '+', @{ $self->inc }; 
 
         $url_str .= '&inc=' . $inc_query;
@@ -57,7 +61,11 @@ sub make_url {
     my @extra_params;
 
     foreach my $key (keys %{ $self->query_params }) {
+      if (grep($_ eq $key, @not_in_query) > 0) {
+        $url_str .= '&' . $key . '=' . $self->query_params->{$key};
+      } else {
         push @extra_params, $key . ':"' . $self->query_params->{$key} . '"';
+      }
     }
 
     if(scalar(@extra_params) > 0) {