Saad Lamjarred (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.
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.
He often uses his platform to advocate for various social causes, participating in charity events and initiatives.
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.
2001
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.
2007
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.
2010
In February 2010 while visiting the United States, Saad Lamjarred was accused of beating and raping a woman from Brooklyn, New York.
Lamjarred fled the U.S. after posting bail and was in risk of being arrested if he returned.
2011
In 2011, Lamjarred started his acting career, playing the male lead in Ahlam Nassim, a Moroccan soap opera.
2013
He released an album in 2013, titled Wala Aalik.
That same year, he released two more EPs, namely Salina and Enty.
2014
The title song of the latter, "Enty" (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".
2015
The music video for Lamjarred's 2015 hit single, "Lm3allem" (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" (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" (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.
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.
2016
The case was dropped in 2016, after the accuser "stopped cooperating with prosecutors" and reached a settlement in a lawsuit.
Lamjarred was arrested at the Marriott Champs Elysées at the 17th arrondissement of Paris on 25 October 2016, where he appeared before a French prosecutor to face the charges about an alleged sexual assault against a French woman.
He was scheduled to perform at the Palais des congrès de Paris on 29 October 2016.
2017
Following this success, Lamjarred's music production took a brief gap while he was on trial in Paris for sexual assault, but soon made a come-back with his August 2017 comeback titled "Let Go".
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" (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.
Lamjarred was released in April 2017, but still faced charges.
In early 2017, he was "prohibited from performing in public, traveling and speaking to media".
2018
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" (بدك ايه).
Within 4 hours of publication, the official music video received over a million views on YouTube.
2019
In July 2019, Lamjarred performed and released a duet with Egyptian actor and fellow singer Mohamed Ramadan titled "Ensay" (إنساي), which garnered over 100 million views within a month of publication.
2020
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.
