Learn To Love … The Story Behind The Music. An insightful and inspiring documentary which tells the story behind Rasheed Ogunlaru’s album “Learn To Love”.

Learn To Love… The Story Behind The Music. Devised, edited and directed by Rasheed Ogunlaru ©Rasheed Ogunlaru 2023 | All songs from the album Learn to Love – all songs written and sung by Rasheed Ogunlaru ©Rasheed Ogunlaru 2023 | Album produced by John Hamilton | This film is inspired by the Rasheed’s album Learn to Love which is out now on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, AmazonMusic and my website RasheedMusic.com | Learn To Love album cover photography by Ajamu. Cover Design: Steve Byrne.

Learn To Love was the fifth and final singe and video released from my current album of the same name. The song was released and the video premiered on Mon 31 July.

If I had to pick one song from the album. It would be this one. This is one of my rare vocal performances that I listen to as a listener rather than as the songwriter. I listen to it and I feel that I really believe the singer. I feel what they are saying. That’s always my simple aspiration as a singer: to deliver a song honestly and authentically and as I listener, pretty much all I care about from a singer is “Do I believe them?”. Do I believe what they re singing? Or rather do I believe that they mean it. This is of course subjective, I’ll never know for sure. But what I seek, as a listener, is to be moved by the song. If I were ever to compile a best of then this would have to be on the list along with songs like “Keys to Inner Peace”, “Love”,  “Live Before We Die” and  “Love is the Answer.”

This video wasn’t my first concept. And in fact it wasn’t the second concept either. More on that another time. But what happened in the end, true to my style is that one day I just decided to film a simple video myself. So what you see in this video is the first time that I have filmed all the footage as well as editing and directing the video. There’s a few shots including the train going past behind me that I’m pleased with – and it encourages me for future projects.

I hope you enjoy the song and the video,

Learn To Love – Rasheed Ogunlaru | Official Music Video| Written and sung by Rasheed Ogunlaru | ©Rasheed Ogunlaru 2022 | Song produced by John Hamilton | Video Director: Rasheed Ogunlaru | From my album Learn to Love which is out now on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, AmazonMusic and my website RasheedMusic.com | Learn To Love album cover photography by Ajamu. Cover Design: Steve Byrne |

Compassion Road was the fourth release from my current album Learn To Love.  This is one of the songs that is most dear to me on the album and writing the song was a very moving experience as the song ‘came through’ to me. As the chorus and chords emerged there were tears as I was fortunate enough to be the beneficiary of this touching song coming through to me.

The video was the first time I had filmed footage of myself and it has a documentary style. It combines my documentary style footage in the verses and the richer wider shots by my friend and multi-time video Director Marcin Kovacs on the choruses. The end sequence is my favourite part.

Compassion Road – Rasheed Ogunlaru | Official Music Video| Written and sung by Rasheed Ogunlaru | ©Rasheed Ogunlaru 2022 | Song produced by John Hamilton | Video Director: Rasheed Ogunlaru, Camera by Marcin Kovacs & Rasheed Ogunlaru | From my album Learn to Love which is out now on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, AmazonMusic and my website RasheedMusic.com | Learn To Love album cover photography by Ajamu. Cover Design: Steve Byrne

Meditation Medication was the third release from my current album Learn to Love. It was released on June 9 2022 and premiered on YouTube that evening. This album has been the first album in which I directed the videos and this (at the time) was the most ambitious of my self directed videos as it combined studio footage and outdoor filming and I remember editing it of the Christmas holidays. It was quite a meditative process.

Meditation Medication – Rasheed Ogunlaru | Official Music Video| Written and sung by Rasheed Ogunlaru | ©Rasheed Ogunlaru 2022 | Song produced by John Hamilton | Video Director: Rasheed Ogunlaru, Camera by Marcin Kovacs & Rasheed Ogunlaru | From my album Learn to Love which is out now on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, AmazonMusic and my website RasheedMusic.com | Dedicated to Marcus.Learn To Love album cover photography by Ajamu. Cover Design: Steve Byrne.

The Dance was the second release from my new album Learn To Love. The song was released on 10 November 2022 and the video premiered on YouTube on the same day. This song was fun to record and the video was great fun to perform.

The Dance – Rasheed Ogunlaru | Official Music Video| Written and sung by Rasheed Ogunlaru | ©Rasheed Ogunlaru 2022 | Song produced by John Hamilton | Video Director: Rasheed Ogunlaru, Camera by Marcin Kovacs | From my album Learn to Love which is out now on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, AmazonMusic and my website RasheedMusic.com |

🎧🎶My new single ‘Music Saved My Life’ is out now on Spotify, YouTube & Apple Music. 🍿Check out the music video above which premiered on my YouTube channel  at 7pm BST today Thu 27 Oct BST for the world premiere of the music video. Music Saved My Life Tonights is the first single from my album Learn to Love which is released on 3 Nov 2022 on Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.

Music Saved My Life – Rasheed Ogunlaru | Official Music Video| Written and sung by Rasheed Ogunlaru | ©Rasheed Ogunlaru 2022 | Song produced by John Hamilton | Video Director: Rasheed Ogunlaru, Camera by Marcin Kovacs.

🎶Learn To Love… the new album from me Rasheed Ogunlaru… is out on 3 Nov 2022 on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music. Here’s the track list and credits. Special thanks to my producer John Hamilton. Plus thanks to Ajamu for the cover photography and Steve Bryne for the cover art.

Here’s a taster of what to expect.