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Munir Bashir was born in [[Mosul]], situated in northern [[Iraq]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/artist/content.artist/munir_bashir |title=National Geographic World Music: Munir Bashir |publisher=Worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com |date= |accessdate=2013-12-29}}</ref> According to different references he was born in a period of time from 1928 to 1930. Bashir is descended from a family of Assyrian Chaldean heritage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/artist/content.artist/munir_bashir/en_US |title=Munir Bashir : National Geographic World Music |publisher=Worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com |date= |accessdate=2013-12-29}}</ref> His father Abd al-Aziz and his brother [[Jamil Bashir|Jamil]] had good reputations as oud-soloists and vocalists; Jamil wrote an important textbook for the oud. The family started musically educating young Bashir at his age of five, Bashir's father began to instruct him and his older brother Jamil in the basics of ud. His father, who was also a poet believed that a pure tradition of Arab music had devolved in [[Baghdad]].<ref name="Zuhur" /><ref>Colors of Enchantment: Theater, Music and the Visual Arts of the Middle East By SHERIFA ZUHUR, ED.</ref> He first learned to play the [[violoncello]], a European instrument that had become a popular bass-instrument in [[Arabian music]] during the end of the 19th century. He simultaneously was taught playing the oud. The lute plays a similar role in Arabian music as the piano does in European music: it is the instrument used to impart the most important theoretical aspects in music.