jongleur

noun jongleur

• singer — Isaac Bashevis [bah-shev-is] /bɑˈʃɛv ɪs/ (Show IPA), 1904–91, U.S. novelist and short-story writer (in Yiddish), born in Poland: Nobel prize 1978.
• crooner — A crooner is a male singer who sings sentimental songs, especially the love songs of the 1930s and 1940s.
• minstrel — a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
• songwriter — a person who writes the words or music, or both, for popular songs.
• accompanist — An accompanist is a musician, especially a pianist, who plays one part of a piece of music while someone else sings or plays the main tune.