Egyptian singer and actor, born in 1951 in a village on the outskirts of Aswan. He moved with his family to Cairo, following the High Dam forced displacement crisis. He graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Helwan University. He was discovered by the communist activist...Read more Zaky Murad, who introduced him to the famous poet Abdel Rehim Mansour. Around the same time, he also met legendary Nubian musician Ahmed Mounib, who wrote and composed many of his songs. In his debut album "Bentweled" in 1978, Mounir collaborated with the up and coming musician Hany Shenouda and his band, and then went on to collaborate with Jazz musician Yehia Khalil on several albums. Mounir's albums and live concerts accumulated popularity throughout the 1980's until he became one of the most popular Egyptian singers around the late 1980s and early 1990s. He also acted in several works, including Youssef Chahin's An Egyptian Story, A Bad Day and a Good Day, The Sixth Day and Destiny.
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Egyptian singer and actor, born in 1951 in a village on the outskirts of Aswan. He moved with his family to Cairo, following the High Dam forced displacement crisis. He graduated...Read more from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Helwan University. He was discovered by the communist activist Zaky Murad, who introduced him to the famous poet Abdel Rehim Mansour. Around the same time, he also met legendary Nubian musician Ahmed Mounib, who wrote and composed many of his songs. In his debut album "Bentweled" in 1978, Mounir collaborated with the up and coming musician Hany Shenouda and his band, and then went on to collaborate with Jazz musician Yehia Khalil on several albums. Mounir's albums and live concerts accumulated popularity throughout the 1980's until he became one of the most popular Egyptian singers around the late 1980s and early 1990s. He also acted in several works, including Youssef Chahin's An Egyptian Story, A Bad Day and a Good Day, The Sixth Day and Destiny.