Minstrels or troubadours are part of the tradition. Contacts between these Spanish poets and the French troubadours were frequent. The metrical forms used by the Spanish poets resembled those later used by the troubadours. The failure of the Seventh Crusade engendered several poetic responses from the Occitan troubadours. Canto XXIII returns to the world of the troubadours via Homer and Renaissance Neoplatonism. The French troubadours were influenced by the Spanish music. Some 2,600 poems or fragments of poems have survived from around 450 identifiable troubadours. Lambert started dating Turnpike Troubadours frontman, Evan Felker, in February 2018. The first half of the 12th century saw relatively few recorded troubadours. He is best known as the lead singer of the band Turnpike Troubadours. The 450 or so troubadours known to historians came from a variety of backgrounds. The most famous names among the ranks of troubadours belong to this period. Most were composed by the troubadours themselves. He performed two of the songs from the album, "Troubadours" and "Angeliou". Taube is regarded as one of the finest troubadours in Sweden.