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This Franco-Moroccan-Canadian adopted Montreal and its accent in the early 1980s, first building a career as an artistic producer and agent for numerous stars of French-language chanson, before launching out on his own as a facetious, funny and touching singer-songwriter. Far from being an unexpected turn of events, this successful reconversion is in fact the realization of an old dream. While his gouaille conquered Quebec as soon as his first album, Pitié Pour Les Femmes, was released in 2004, Jamil had to wait a few more years to be acclaimed in France by fans of bon mots and deadpan tunes, to be hummed without moderation.
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