Bilal Hassani

Biography

Bilal Hassani (Arabic: بلال حسني, romanized: Bilāl Ḥasnī; born 9 September 1999) is a French singer-songwriter and YouTuber. He represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Roi", finishing in 16th place. Hassani was born in Orsay, Paris Region to a Moroccan family from Casablanca. His mother is a French citizen, while his father lives in Singapore. He has an older brother, Taha, who was born in 1995. He obtained his literary baccalaureate in 2017. In 2005, at the age of five, Hassani began singing lessons. In 2015, encouraged by his friend Nemo Schiffman, a finalist…