Here’s the words I wrote when I first uploaded it and there’s not much more for me to add:

“The first of my own songs that I wrote – and then recorded back in 1997. It’s quite dear and ironically it laid the foundations for pretty much all the other songs I have written about life and self – not that I was aware of it at the time. 

That is the magic of music that you can’t really take credit for it. Songs just arrive and your job as a ‘fisherman’ is to haul them in, in tact. That said the original lyric was weak and I was encouraged to re-write it. I’m so glad that I did. Since then the lyrics have pretty much written themselves. I feel that your job as songwriter is just to listen to the track that’s coming through; words and music – almost is if it were being played in another room and you just have to make out what’s being played and capture true as you can to what’s what’s being heard…as honest as you can with the limited skills that one has. It has challenges attached especially, if like myself you are not really a ‘musician’. I guess that’s the beauty of collaboration.”

The funny thing about life is that when you step back and start to look back you start to see all the themes and the patterns. When I was pursuing singing as a living 15 or so years ago the songs were all about life, love, self discovery and such like and that’s much like the work I help people with now in my day job as a coach, speaker and author.

When I came to compiling the collection ‘Songs from the Soul’ I decided to gather some of the songs that were most dear that I’d written over the last 10 years or so and some new ones. One of those old tracks was “World Full of Wonder’ And then about 3 weeks couple of weeks ago my friend and talented creative, Marcin , who directed my last two videos pointed out that the track with just as still image on my YouTube channel had attracted a thousand views in a week or so and suggested we film a video. So that’s we did and here’s the result. Marcin a huge thanks.

World Full of Wonder written & performed by Rasheed Ogunlaru. Video directed by Marcin Steciuk.

Sunny Days is one of my favorite songs. It was co-written by Kevin Arnold and myself and was the first song on our last demo recording together. From memory Kevin was on the piano playing a beautiful riff. I walked out into the room with the piano which he was playing and began singing. I’m very proud of the lyric that came through. I love the outro that Kev created at the end.