About | The Onyx Life

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ONYX FAMILY

Welcome to the Onyx Life the Onyx Family’s Lifestyle site where we guide you with online shopping, offer tips on how to make money, and live your best life.

The Onyx Family, America’s first African-American family of entertainers, authors, and entrepreneurs, consists of parents, Mirthell and Rita, and their four children Shalom, Sinead, Sade (Shasha), and Shiloh.

With a subscriber following of over six million subscribers and over three billion views on their content, their mission, “Tell the Story, Feed the soul, Make them Laugh, Heal the heart,” reaches families around the world.

Their multi-million dollar enterprise includes videos, books, music, courses, podcasts, branded merchandise, consumable products, websites, speaking engagements, television appearances, animations, and streaming shows on multiple platforms.

Through funding community outreach programs, contributing to HBCU scholarships, and participating in various mission projects, this family’s vision is to give back by inspiring families and children around the world to live out their greatest hopes, dreams, and aspirations.

The Onyx Family multi-million dollar enterprise includes videos, books, music, courses, branded merchandise, speaking engagements, and television appearances.

MIRTHELL

Mirthell is the author of several inspirational books that show his passion for faith and family, having been an ordained minister and marriage and family therapist for over twenty years. He also writes, directs, and acts in many of the Onyx shows by bringing the family’s story to life in depicting how they rose from “the struggle life” to “the Onyx life.” As the host of The Onyx Life podcast, Mirthell seeks to inspire families around the world. A native of Toronto, Canada, with Jamaican roots, Mirthell enjoys fixing the family delicious meals of his heritage.

RITA

Rita is the mastermind and Founder and CEO of the Onyx Family brands. For years she worked as a nurse practitioner in a variety of settings, but it was her dream to one day work with her family. She assessed her family’s skillset and decided to establish the Onyx Family brands. Rita appears in many of the Onyx Family productions but her focus has also been behind the camera establishing and managing new businesses under the Onyx Family umbrella, cohosting The Onyx Life podcast, and authoring fiction books for adults and kids and writing non-fiction books based on the life and lessons she and Mirthell have learned with over twenty years of marriage. Born in Los Angeles, California, this highly ambitious entrepreneur has proven that she lives the example of her inspirational mantra “Don’t wait for an opportunity, create it.”

SHALOM

Shalom, the eldest of the Onyx siblings is the primary content writer for Onyx Kids, actress on the Onyx Family productions, and the illustrator for the Onyx Kids Adventures and Onyx Kids School Days books. Born in Toronto, Canada, Shalom (which means “peace”) strengthens her faith by beginning each day with devotion. In overcoming her own personal challenges, she continues to seek meaningful connections with other youth to help them discover their own unique ways of using creative self-expression to make a positive impact on the world.

SINEAD

Sinead, the second oldest, was born in Toronto, Canada. She is an actress and director for the Onyx Family productions, Sinead also enjoys reading and writing Sci-fi, fantasy and YA books, building worlds her audience would enjoy. In addition to acting and writing, Sinead has a deep love for music and is the head music producer for all Onyx content and releases her own music under her stage name Shonyx. When she isn’t in front of the camera or in her studio, you can find her in the kitchen baking vegan, plant-based treats. Her desire is to show the world that a vegan diet isn’t all about rabbit food, but it can be delicious and decadent too, while still being healthy.

SHASHA

Michigan-born youngest sister Sade (“Shasha”) is an actress on all of the Onyx Family productions. She not only enjoys being in front of the camera, but behind the camera as well, as the head editor of all the video content for the Onyx Family brands. In addition to acting and editing, Shasha has a passion for writing children’s fiction and authors the Onyx Kids Adventures and Onyx Kids School Days series. When she’s not writing or acting, you can find Shasha outside working on her fitness goals under the Cardionyx brand. Her workouts have been a source of inspiration to people who know her and watch her routines.

SHILOH

Born in New York, Shiloh is the youngest actor of the Onyx Family. Along with his older sisters, Shiloh helps to bring funny, imaginative, fantasy-based stories to life for the Onyx Family productions. Shiloh dominates the gaming world on his YouTube channel Playonyx, drawing millions of views worldwide. Shiloh enjoys gaming so much that he has co-authored a fiction series “Playonyx” based off of his gaming channel. Between acting and writing, Shiloh wants to inspire boys around the world.