Gospel Spotlight: Rondell Positive urges people to look in ‘The Mirror’

A decade-long drive has given musical minister Rondell Positive much time to meditate on the message of his latest release, ‘ The Mirror’.

The gospel artiste said that the lyrical wheels started turning in 2009 during a ‘Girls’ Day’ talk focused on self-reflection – to look in the mirror.

Then he pressed on the brakes for about five years, and then without even noticing, the drive to complete the track picked up speed.

“I went to a high school to speak to some students in 2014, and it so happens that one of them was at the ‘Girls’ Day’ in 2009 (she was in grade six then) and she said to me, ‘that very day I made the decision that no problem I have, I will look to nobody to solve it because I realised I am the person who has to answer the problems I face’, and it hit me,” Rondell Positive told THE WEEKEND STAR. “By 2019, the second verse of the song became clear and I completed it.”

Checking his own mirrors, Rondell Positive researched tracks by icons Bob Marley and Michael Jackson, including One Love and Man in the Mirror , respectively.

Create an understanding

The Mirror is more than a worship song that connects with a wide audience, according to the proclaimed ‘reggae worshipper’, whose objective is to create an understanding with lyrics like “ We are the change we want to see, we can change the world, but it takes you and me”.

He said, “Not that Bob Marley or Michael Jackson inspired it, but in retrospect, the song sounds like those recordings, and I had planned from the beginning that I wanted to launch it on my birthday (February 5) only to find that Man in the Mirror was officially released on the Jamaican reggae legend’s birthday … it cannot be coincidental.”

The song was released on Wednesday while he celebrated his birthday.

“I received so many messages on the day that I never got in my life about the song. It is not a popularity contest, it is about setting my nation on fire to impact the world,” he said. “Based on the nature of the song, I believe it’s a new beginning in my life, and that’s what I hope for every person that hears the song.”