Saad Lamjarred facts for kids

Saad Lamjarred (Arabic: سعد لمجرد; born 7 April 1985) is a Moroccan singer-songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, and record producer. His official music video for "LM3ALLEM" has received over 1 billion views on YouTube; he has had over 4 billion views and 14 millions subscribers on his YouTube channel.

Early life

Lamjarred was born to Bachir Abdou, a Moroccan classical singer, and Nezha Regragui, an actress and comedian. From an early age, Lamjarred had a special interest in playing the piano, as well as singing as early as the age of four.

Lamjarred then went on to study at the Conservatory of Music in Rabat, where he studied music, art theory and dance. He would perform many productions wherein he would collaborate with his father.

Lamjarred moved to the US in 2001 and cites this as one of the main sources of inspiration for his music, crediting the experience for exposing him to western music and having a defining effect on his style and the type of artist he wanted to identify as.

Career

In 2007, Lamjarred took part in Super Star, a widely popular Arab talent TV show, and was placed second in season 4 of the series that was defeated by the Tunisian Marwan Ali. His participation earned him recognition.

In 2011, Lamjarred started his acting career, playing the male lead in Ahlam Nassim, a Moroccan soap opera. He released an album in 2013, titled Wala Aalik. That same year, he released two more EPs, namely Salina and Enty. The title song of the latter, "Enty" (Arabic: أنتي), became one of Lamjarred's biggest hits and earned him an award at the Méditel Morocco Music Awards 2014, as well as a nomination for the Best Middle East Act at the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards.

Lamjarred was also nominated for the Best Middle East Act at the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards. He won the Murex d'Or in the category of "Best Arabic Song" for his 2014 song "Enty".

The music video for Lamjarred's 2015 hit single, "Lm3allem" (Arabic: لمعلم), earned a Guinness World Record achievement after garnering 1 billion views on YouTube within three months of release.

A year later, Lamjarred released another single titled "Ana Machi Sahel" (Arabic: أنا ماشي ساهل), which he soon followed up with a black-and-white music video released on YouTube that features dozens of Lamjarred's fans, who have filmed themselves singing along to the song at home, in their cars and out and about. Lamjarred didn't wait too long to release another single by the name of "Ghaltana" (Arabic: غلطانة) in the form of a video clip directed by Amr Rouani. The video caught eyes because of its Wild West, gritty feel, inspired by Rouani's childhood love of Mad Max films.

..... It was an immediate hit, it earned about half a million views on YouTube within an hour of its release. Lamjarred later released new hit songs such as "Ghazali" (Arabic: غزالي), another big hit that earned more than half a million views only minutes after the video went live at an average of 50 thousand views every five minutes. "Ghazali" was then succeeded by "Casablanca", in which Lamjarred sings in French.

August 2018 saw Lamjarred incarcerated once more in Saint Tropez, halting his music career again until December 2018, in which he released another single, titled "Baddek Eih" (Arabic: بدك ايه). Within 4 hours of publication, the official music video received over a million views on YouTube.

In July 2019, Lamjarred performed and released a duet with Egyptian actor and fellow singer Mohamed Ramadan titled "Ensay" (Arabic: إنساي), which garnered over 100 million views within a month of publication.

On 10 June 2020 Lamjarred reached 10 million subscribers on his official YouTube channel, and becoming the first Arab African singer to get the Diamond Button. In May 2022, his 2015 hit single "Lm3allem" became the first Arabic song to surpass a billion views on YouTube.

In July 2023, Lamjarred appeared and sang the Arabic-Hindi song Guli Mata with Indian singer Shreya Ghoshal.

Personal life

There were reports in the media that Lamjarred was once married, and divorced around 2015.

On 11 September 2022, he announced his engagement to businesswoman Ghita El Allaki. They married later in the same month.

Discography

Albums

Singles

• 2009: "Waadini" (واعديني)
• 2012: "Salina Salina" (سلينا سلينا)
• 2014: "Enty" (أنتي)
• 2015: "Lm3allem" (لمعلم)
• 2016: "Ana Machi Sahel" (أنا ماشي ساهل)
• 2016: "Ghaltana" (غلطانة)
• 2017: "Let Go"
• 2018: "Ghazali" (غزالي)
• 2018: "Ya Allah" (يا الله)
• 2018: "Casablanca"
• 2018: "Baddek Eih" (بدك ايه)
• 2019: "Njibek" (نجيبك)
• 2019: "Ykhalik Lili" (يخليك للي)
• 2019: "Salam" (سلام)
• 2019: "Daba Tzian" (دابا تزيان)
• 2020: "Adda Elkalam" (عدى الكلام)
• 2021: "Lghadi Wehdou" (الغادي وحدو)
• 2021: "Nadi Ya Allah" (نادي يا الله)
• 2022: "Ya Ayouni" (يا عيوني)
• 2022: "Altawbah" (التوبة)
• 2022: "Ma Ahla Lmakan" (ما أحلى المكان)
• 2022: "Alacheq Alhayem" (العاشق الهايم)
• 2022: "El Hala'" (الحلق)
• 2023: "Ach Khbarek" (أش خبارك)
• 2023: "Nour Elsobh" (نور الصبح)

Duets

• 2012: "Aziz W Ghali" (عزيز وغالي) – feat. Bachir Abdou
• 2012: "Sa'aa Saaida" (ساعة سعيدة) – feat. Sofia Mountassir
• 2014: "Wana Ma'ak" (وأنا معاك) – feat. Asma Lamnawar
• 2014: "Ya Ensan" (يا إنسان) – feat. Salah Alkurdi
• 2019: "Ensay" (إنساي) – feat. Mohamed Ramadan
• 2020: "Asef Habibi" (آسف حبيبي) – feat. Fnaïre
• 2020: "Chidde W Betzul" (شدت وبتزول) – feat. Salah Kurdi
• 2020: "Bab Alrajaa" (باب الرجاء) – feat. Mohamed Reda
• 2021: "Lewjah Tani" (لوجه التاني) – feat. Zouhair Bahaoui
• 2021: "Sahra Sabahi" (السهرة صباحي) – feat. RedOne and Saber Rebaï
• 2021: "Enty Hayaty" (انتي حياتي) – feat. Calema
• 2022: "Min Awel Dekika" (من أول دقيقة) – feat. Elissa
• 2022: "Viva El Rey Habibna" (عاش حبيبنا الملك) – feat. Nicolas Reyes
• 2023: "Guli Mata" – feat. Shreya Ghoshal

Charted songs

Filmography

Television

• 2012: Ahlam Nassim

Awards and nominations

See also

In Spanish: Saad Lamjarred para niños