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

The jongleur looks at me like I'm insane.

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

This sirvente which was apparently composed during a brief interval during which the jongleurs amused the company, was read in a sonorous voice by Archbishop Boniface.

From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney

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

The troubadours and jongleurs traveled from court to court, not only in France, but north into Germany and south into Italy, carrying with them the southern French poetry and customs.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson