About

Onyx Family

The Onyx Family, produces books and family-friendly comedic videos starring parents Mirthell and Rita, and their four children Shalom, Sinead, Shasha, and Shiloh. With a subscriber following of four million and over two billion views on their content they live out their motto on camera:

“Tell the Story…Feed the Soul…Make them Laugh….Heal the Heart.”

The Onyx Family have multiple brands under the Onyx umbrella including, Onyx Family, Onyx Kids, Onyx Life, Playonyx, Cardionyx, Onyx Flix, Onyx Financial University, Onyx Star Publishing, and Onyx Podcasting. Their multi-million dollar enterprise includes videos, books, coaching material, music, courses, branded merchandise, speaking engagements, and television appearances.

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 children around the world to live out their greatest hopes, dreams, and aspirations.

Mirthell Onyx

Mirthell, also known as Onyx Dad, has been an ordained minister and marriage and family therapist for over twenty years. Mirthell writes, directs, produces, 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 a self-made, millionaire family utilizing social media as their primary entertainment platform. As the host of The Onyx Life podcast, Mirthell seeks to inspire and educate families on how to simultaneously build happy homes and financial empires. A native of Toronto, Canada, Mr. Onyx embodies his slogan “Life is tough…you are tougher…be an Onyx” by keeping his faith, family, and life-mission of inspiring others to live empowered lives at the center of his life.

Author of

Onyx Kids Adventures

Onyx Family Series

Coming Soon

The Good In My Afflictions

Let Go Let God

Rita Onyx

Rita, also known as Onyx Mom, is the mastermind of the Onyx family brand. For years she worked as a Nurse Practitioner in a variety of settings. One day she got tired of the 9-5 grind, or for her more specifically 8am-midnight grind, and decided to look into how she could make money from home, so she could spend more time with her husband and kids. It was her dream to one day work with her family, but she didn’t know how that would ever be possible. As she looked into working online, she saw that many people were making money online and said to herself, if they could do it, so could she, and from there the Onyx Family brand was created.

Rita also appears in many of the Onyx Family productions but her focus has been behind the camera. Her passion to help others inspired Rita to found Onyx Financial University to help others make money online from home. She also feeds her love for reading and writing by authoring fiction books for kids and writing non-fiction books and series based on the life and lessons she and Mirthell have learned with over twenty years of marriage. Born in Los Angeles, this highly ambitious entrepreneur has proven that she lives the example of her inspirational mantra “Don’t wait for an opportunity, create it!”

Author of

Onyx Kids Adventures

Onyx Kids School Days

Onyx Family Series

Coming Soon

Shalom Onyx

Shalom, the eldest of the Onyx siblings is the primary content writer for Onyx Kids, supporting actress on the Onyx Kids, Onyx family and Onyx Life, and the illustrator for Onyx Kids School Days and Onyx Adventures children’s fiction series. Shalom has also co-authored her first book, Getting to Know Onyx Kids in which she shares her life and faith with her fans. 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.

Illustrator of

Onyx Kids Adventures

Onyx Kids School Days

Sinead Onyx

Sinead, the second oldest, was born in Toronto, Canada. She is an actress on both Onyx Kids, Onyx Family and Onyx Life. While she loves acting, music is her specialty. Sinead showcases her musical talent by writing and performing all of the songs, raps, and covers featured in the episodes, under her stage moniker, “Shonyx.” She is also the chief web designer for all websites under the Onyx Family Brand combining her talents for design and coding to present the Onyx Family to the world. Although she has a deep love for music, Sinead’s true passion is in entrepreneurship. She aspires to one day dominate the business landscape and hopes to inspire the generation around to becoming more knowledgeable about the business world.

Sinead is curious about the world around her and is unafraid to challenge herself. So it’s no surprise when she became a vegan or more accurately, a plant-based eater. This decision would change her life. Not only was she able to reverse and heal some health challenges, she discovered a passion for sharing her story and helping her friends and family make better choices and lead a healthier lifestyle. Her love of good plant-based food has led her to some amazing restaurants, diners, and fast food joints across the country. 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.

Author of

Onyx Kids Adventures

Onyx Academy

Coming Soon

Shasha Onyx

Michigan-born younger sister Sade (“Shasha”) has the principle acting role on Onyx Kids. She enjoys being in front of the camera and behind the camera as the head editor of all the video content in the Onyx Family brand. In addition to acting and editing, Shasha has a passion for writing. She is the main author of Onyx Kids Adventures fiction book series. While she does a lot of work at the computer she lives a far from sedentary life. Shasha produces workouts and focuses on creating health and wellness initiatives for youth and young adults through her brand Cardionyx. Shasha is petite but she is mentally and physically strong. Her determined will has been a source of inspiration to people of all ages who know her and watch her workout routines. Shasha is dedicated to helping others reach their own fitness goals and showing the world that exercise is a celebration of what the body can achieve.

Author of

Onyx Kids Adventures

Onyx Babysitting Adventures

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Shiloh Onyx

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 on Onyx Kids. Also an avid gamer with the moniker “okgamerman,” Shiloh dominates the gaming world on his YouTube channel Playonyx, drawing millions of views worldwide and the attention of major gaming brands. Shiloh enjoys gaming so much that he has co-authored a series called Playonyx which is a spinoff of Onyx Kids School Days, where his character gets stuck in different gaming worlds. Between acting, writing, and learning to code in his free time, Shiloh wants to be an example to young boys around the world on how they can start learning how to build a brand from a young age.

Author of

Playonyx

Coming Soon