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Born on November 24th, 1981 in the city of Mandaguari, Brazil, Mr. Hossn came to the world through a family of African, Arab, Italian, and indigenous Brazilian descent. On his mother’s side, his grandfather and his uncles were radio announcers and even his mother also worked on the radio but then followed her passion for fabrics and clothes. On his father’s side, his grandparents also worked in the field of textiles and clothing, and that was how his parents met.
When Munir was born, his parents were no longer together, in order to go to work, his mother left her still young son with his grandfather who made the radio disco become his nursery, and thus Munir Hossn spent his mornings playing with the K7 tapes and vinyl.
At the age of 6 his uncle Fabio Ferreira gave him the gift that would change his life forever, an acoustic guitar, which little Munir did not let go of until his talent was recognized at home and at school where he often took it to shows.
Then on his own, he began to learn the hymns of the church that his mother frequented, until the priest, seeing the interest and talent of the child, left the keys to the small church so that Munir would have access to all the instruments and could practice the songs so that when a musician from the church group was missing he could replace him.
And so it was, Munir came to replace all the musicians interpreting the songs on drums, keyboard, percussion, bass, and guitar.
The child prodigy did not finish his primary studies, he left school at age 10, after receiving his first job proposal, being part of a youth group that performed in clubs in his city.
Munir sentimentally recalls the difficult but decisive passage that was the sudden death of one of his mother’s brothers. She went to pick him up at school because the family was going to meet for the sad and solemn occasion; when the director informed her that Munir had not been to classes for more than a week.
Her mother, both sad and upset, asked her friends if they knew where her son was until she found him in a garage rehearsing with other musicians. Munir says that he never forgot the force with which his mother grabbed his ears and carried him home.
A few days after the loss of her brother, his now calmer mother asked him the question that would decide Munir’s future and what he would become; she asked him:
-What do you want to do and be in your life?
His response was clear:
-I am already [a musician], mom.
From that day on, Munir stopped going to school at only 10 years old and his mother said that at the age of 11 he was already the one who paid the rent and the expenses of the house where they lived and that he was never interested in money he earned playing, what he wanted was to learn and learn from the most experienced musicians he played with.
Munir never stopped learning the songs that sounded on the radio, and that brought him knowledge and a mastery of the instrument that led him to be part of many dance groups that animated the nights of Brazil.
At that time the owners of the dance groups had all the instruments and a place where the group’s musicians also lived. That was Munir’s environment for years, to the point that his mother had to emancipate him so that he could travel all over the country touring with those musical groups.
Among the listed happy and incredible experiences, they also had many difficulties and sorrows, undoubtedly the greatest one being not seeing his mother again for more than 20 years.
Separated by the great geographical distances of Brazil, and by the financial instability of a young musician who came from a very humble family, Munir was only able to see his mother once again when he was still a teenager, then all contact was by letters and calls.
But even so, Munir managed to draw strength from his dreams of bringing his music to the world and being able to give a better life to his family.
At 15 years of age, he was already part of famous groups and accompanied renowned artists of the Brazilian music scene, such as Hermeto Pascoal, Roberto Mendes, Daniela Mercury, Gilberto Gil, Lenine, and others, he also appeared on the main TV stations of Brazil.
In 2003 Munir began his international career, first in Spain where he collaborated with: Jerry Gonzalez, Javier Ruibal, Jorge Drexler, Jorge Pardo, among many others.
In 2007 he moved to Paris from where he would go to tour around the world with artists already world-renowned such as Joe Zawinul Syndicate, Didier Lockwood, Roberto Fonseca, Mayra Andrade, and Ibrahim Maalouph.
In 2010 he recorded his first album in Europe, Indigenajazz, and then 2014 Made in Nordeste.
In 2016 Munir received an invitation from the teacher Quincy Jones and his producer to collaborate with one of his artists, the Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez, with whom he later produced an album.
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