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Jamila Omar Bouamout (; born 19 March 1961), better known as Laila Ghofran (; also Laila Ghofrane, Layla Ghofran), is a Moroccan-Egyptian singer and actress who started her career in the music industry in the 80s and broke through in the early 90s.(31 July 2011). Laila Ghufran films clip for Ramadan, Al Arabiya To the people in the Arab world, she's called as the "Sultana of Taarab" due to her strong and sensational voice and her popular covers of classic Arabic songs.
Ghofran left to Paris and London due to her family's rejection of her interest in pursuing a career in music, and started singing for Arab communities in hotels and restaurants. She released her first song in Moroccan Arabic dialect, titled "El Youm El Awel" in 1982, which was well-received in Morocco.
Out of fear of her father and in order to protect her family, she took the name "Laila Ghofran" to be her stage name before she officially kicked off her career as a singer.
In 1996, she released one of her best-selling and most popular albums, "Jabar", which included remakes of songs by legendary Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez. Her performances of “Jabar”, “Kamel El Awsaf” and “Hobbak Nar” remain widely appreciated.
In 2006, she decided to independently produce her own music and released a song titled "Men Hena Wa Rayeh", whose music video was directed by her then-husband, Anas Do'ya.
Ghofran announced that she would be experimenting different and new music genres in an album that she had prepared for release in 2008. However, after her daughter, Hiba al-Akkad, and her friend, were brutally murdered later that year, she put off the album and released it in June, 2009, with a song titled "El Garh Mn Naseeby," in dedication her late daughter. The album, whose title was the same, had moderate success amidst controversies accusing Ghofran of using her daughter's case to promote the album.
In 2013, she released her most recent album to date, "Ahlamy", and took a break from the music scene.
Ghofran returned to the music scene with a single titled "Jabni L'ghram" in 2018.
In 2023, she said in a TV interview that the reason behind her hiatus from music was because of her health, noting that she fails to express her anger. A few months later, she released a song titled "Ana Keda Agbany."
In 2024, Ghofran said that she would take a break from the music industry for personal reasons.
In the early 80s, she married Egyptians producer Ibrahim Al-Akkad, with whom she had her late daughter, Hiba, before they separated. She then married Iraqis singer Fouad Masoud, with whom she had a daughter named Nagham. She later married businessmen Ismail Khurshid, Adham Mohammad and divorced them. In 2005, she married director Anas Do'ya, who was 15 years younger than her and divorced him in 2007. Ghofran married Murad Abu Al-Ainayn in 2008 and the couple got divorced in 2015.
Police said that the murderer was a blacksmith, who entered Gamal's apartment with the intention of stealing money. In 2010, Mahmoud Al Issawi was sentenced to death,http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/49738 Esawy re-sentenced to death for girls' murders and the capital punishments took place at the Wadi al-Natrun prison in 2014.
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