jongleur

As a modern troubadour, mining the social perspective of the chansons réalistes, Aznavour was the inheritor of a French tradition that can be traced back to the entertainment of the medieval jongleur.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 23, 2018

The other difference is that Tagore wasn’t a jongleur, that is, a singer of his own songs, though he might well have wanted such a career among his several.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2016

Once, at least, has this jongleur been more than little or impudent.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur of the old time.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I'm no cheap jongleur, either, you know. I sing for lords and ladies! One day I'll sing for the king himself!"

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Not lyric poets then, or even jongleurs, but bricoleurs, who occupy a separate category because they work across genres.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2016

Medieval France had its jongleurs; Elizabethan London, its ballad singers and costermongers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Impoverishment supervening they went forth in the crusades to die, or, less finely, dropped back among the jongleurs, minstrels, strollers and mere poets with whom subsequently they were generally confused.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

As they crossed the vineyard, the cardinal stretched out his long arm and said, "I have brought musicians, jongleurs, senators of Orvieto, men-at-arms, two archbishops, six bishops, an abbot, and many monsignors and priests."

From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Robert Shea

The German minnesingers differed from the French troubadours in that they themselves accompanied their songs on the viol, instead of employing jongleurs.

From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell