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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps "greatest living jongleur" would define him better, since he relies so upon borrowed accents, fantastic metres, the dress of other days.

From Time Magazine Archive

"But it can also be performed by a charlatan! A trickster! I bet that jongleur sleeping out in the barn could dazzle our eyes if we let him."

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

And it is also a fact that in the fabliaux and other light verse of the time we find jongleurs presented as boasting of the particular chansons they can sing.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

"Ma belle," said this Camoys, in friendly condescension, "n'estez vous pas jongleurs?"

From Chivalry by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott

The jongleurs of the Middle Ages were the immediate descendants of the Roman mimes and histrions; their declamations, accompanied by gestures, at least tended towards the dramatic form.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse