Gospel recording artiste Rondell Positive believes that the message in the song Brand New World, which was recorded in 1973 by the late Bahamian evangelist and minister Dr Myles Munroe, is still relevant today.

Rondell Positive recently released a cover of the song, which he said he first heard as a child.

“The relevance of the message in this song is timeless. Every word sang in 1973 is proof of Solomon’s statement ‘There’s nothing new under the sun.’ In 2024 and beyond every individual, family, community, parish, nation needs the message. Just about the time this song impacted me, Dr Dave Burrows, who is Dr Munroe’s successor, was a drug dealer and gangster, this song impacted him and began a shift in his life. Thirty years later, his destiny was orchestrated to be the one who would take over from Dr Munroe and carry on the vision. Brand New World is more than a song of impact, it is a system,” Rondell Positive said in an interview with the Jamaica Observer on Thursday.

He shared that his relationship with the song Brand New World goes back decades.

“I smiled as I heard the question! Did I decide? I asked myself, or was I chosen to do this? The truth is that Brand New World was my very first encounter with music when I was only 3 years old. I heard my dad teaching some young people the song and it was planted in me like a seed. It eventually began growing on me and with me. For years I’ve been singing the chorus to myself as that was the only part I knew. When I finally answered the call to music I decided then, in 2006, that if I would ever do a cover this would be the song. There was more to it, though, that I never knew,” shared the recording artiste.

Although having not met Dr Munroe personally, Rondell Positive got familiar with his work shortly after he died in a plane crash in The Bahamas.

“I actually met him 14 hours after his death. I never met the man while he was alive. In 2010 my agent told me there’s a man who speaks purpose and is always intense, as I am. and that I should research him on YouTube. I never did, as I was not a televangelist [-watching] kind of person. It was Jermaine Edwards’ post on Facebook on November 10, 2014 that caused me to look at a video, as I said to myself: ‘This is the man my agent was telling me about.’ That video connected with me so much that it was written in my destiny that it would take books to cover. I began a video mentorship programme that opened me up further in kingdom and purposeful living. Then the floodgates opened and I met Catherine Goodall, who knew of the impact of his teachings on my life. She introduced me to her pastor, Christopher Morgan, from Go For God Family Church, who introduced me to his mother Dr Pat Morgan, who met me, listened to my music and story, and the next thing I know I was flown to The Bahamas to meet Dr Munroe’s trustees, and his son Myles Munroe Jr. It was during that time I learnt that
Brand New World, which I heard at age three, was written and sang by him and revolutionised the youth of The Bahamas as a 17-year-old,” Rondell Positive shared with the Observer.

Brand New World marks Rondell Positive’s first new release in three years as he has been focussing on his family.

“I never just release music for the sake of remaining trendy or being in the limelight, but rather everything has to be purposeful. When I got the push in my spirit to release
Brand New World, I didn’t remember that Dr Munroe had passed away 10 years ago. It was later that night I conversed with Myles Jr to let him know that I was going to release a cover of the song, and he said I got the timing spot on. I was able to participate in the 10-year Legacy Celebrations and meet my brothers and sisters from many nations who were impacted by Dr Munroe. I closed the concert following performances from Sherwin Gardner and Yolanda Adams,” said Rondell Positive.