Born in a family of six children, Youness was raised in a family of music lovers where he was already singing as a child. "I listened to my mother who never stopped singing in the kitchen. Youness El Guezouli comes from there. He was revealed to the Moroccan public in 2003 by winning Casting Star, the Moroccan Star Academy. He is a young person who proves that he does not take the virtual for real life but uses it to change his destiny, to write his own mektoub at twenty-seven years old.