Bilal Hassani

Bilal Hassani Arabic ???? ???? romanized Bil?l ?asn? born 9 September 1999 is a French singersongwriter 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 of the first season Hassani participated in the second season of The Voice Kids and introduced himself in the blind auditions by singing a cover of Rise Like a Phoenix by Conchita Wurst a singer whom he admires He joined the team of judge Patrick Fiori He was eliminated during the battle rounds by Swany Patrac In 2018 the LGBT magazine Têtu designated Hassani as one of the 30 LGBT people who move France The magazine described him as an icon for French LGBT youth On 6 December 2018 Hassani was announced to be among the 18 candidates participating in Destination Eurovision the French national selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest which was broadcast on France 2 with this edition choosing the representative of France at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 which took place in Tel Aviv Israel in May 2019 On 20 December 2018 an excerpt from his song for the competition was released the song titled Roi and written with the duo and 2018 winner of Destination Eurovision Madame Monsieur The song was described to be about selfacceptance On 4 January 2019 Roi was made available on all music platforms and by 14 January it had exceeded 3 million views The newspaper Le Monde wrote that Hassani leaves no one indifferent The initial front runner to represent France at Eurovision Hassani began a media tour for Destination Eurovision on media outlets such as NRJ Quotidien and France Inter On 12 January 2019 he won the semifinal by winning 58 out of 60 points awarded by the international jury and winning 57 points the highest score from the French public He totaled 115 points and qualified for the final alongside Chimène Badi 66 points Silvàn Areg 59 points and Aysat 40 points He won the final on 26 January 2019 with a total of 200 points including 150 of the French public while he was ranked fifth with the International Jury vote with 50 points At the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 final in Israel Hassani performed the song Roi and placed 16th with 105 points He made a cameo appearance in the 2020 film Eurovision Song Contest The Story of Fire Saga In 2024 he had an acting role in Alexis Langloiss feature film Queens of Drama Les Reines de la drame On 23 June 2017 Hassani publicly came out as part of the LGBTQ community the day before he attended the Paris Pride Hassani is genderqueer and is at ease with both she and he pronouns Source Article Bilal Hassani from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30