About this podcast
Osiris Munir was born in Amarillo, Texas and grew up in Amarillo and Waco. She left home at age 16 and joined the US Navy immediately after turning 17. After the military, Munir became a Nichiren Shoshu orthodox, Buddhist. They told her that she could chant for anything, she chanted meet founder, producer, musician, Maurice White of EWF. She wrote a letter to White's Complex Studios in West LA . After a break up with her children's father, hopeful, she drove with her two children to Los Angeles. Interestingly enough, White's older sister, contacted her. The next call was White himself. Munir's first industry job was working for Spotlite Enterprises the first US based comedy agency, started by Robert Williams in his NY bedroom who groomed most of the world's most celebrated comics. Munir landed a job as an assistant to music agent and partner, Gayle Holcomb, in the music department of WME, formerly, The William Morris Talent Agency. There for three years she learned the in and outs of the music business from the oldest agency in the world. After William Morris, she worked for five years at UMG/MCA Records in the R&B and pop divisions as an assistant and came to know and work with many well known artist of the time. Mother of two, she had to send her two children back to Texas to her parents.for lack of a place to live, no job and no finances. After getting a pink slip cut from the record label, Munir recovered her children and formed Ankh Entertainment with associate and grammy award winner, Terence Shaddick. She modeled for Marikka Knakk, famed film stylist, Marlene Stewart and was the first black Vidal Sassoon House model. In 2002, once again Munir took a huge risk by taking on a double media assignment as a talent /media rep for the Universoul Circus. There she came to understand how radio and television worked together as applied to the performing-arts and media and became quite proficient at interviewing high profile celebrities who were ringmaster guest at the show. . While doing all of this, Munir was studying dance under, R' Wanda Lewis out of the Katherine Graham school of dance and Lulu Washington here in LA. As she continued to develop her talent as a dancer she increasingly became more and more interested in the field of entertainment and media, working and training with the likes of media greats Pat Tobin of Tobin Enterprises and Lilly Lipton of Rogers and Cowan. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/lilly-lipton-obituary?id=27565271 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-11-me-tobin11-story.html . and writing for the BFM Magazine, Sepia Magazine and three years for the Culver City Newspaper. Munir is an author of her autobiography, Nita, writer, entertainment personality and LA Talk Radio Show host of The Osiris Munir Show. For more information on Munir's art: For Osiris's art works contact artist, curator, Bibiana Huang-Matheis of the International Inspiration Art Group. www.inspirationartgroup.org.. Munir is represented by BTM Management and The Sovereign Agency
ArtsBooksInterviewsTvFilm