What a Difference a Day Makes: Rapper GodKnows on 'giving back to God'

Zimbabwean-Irish rapper Munyaradzi GodKnows Jonas tells Helen O’Callaghan how a pastor’s words, spoken a dozen years ago, gave him a new confidence and self-belief – but also motivated him to life his life in kindness to others on a musical path.

GodKnows Jonas at home in Shannon, Co Clare. Picture: Eamon Ward

It was a Sunday morning in 2013. I was 23, tasked by my mother to pick somebody up at the airport, bring him the seven-minute drive to our house in Shannon. My best friend, MuRli, came too.

My mother had met Pastor Jason Livingstone in Kent. She loved his preaching so much, she wanted her friends and family to hear it… I was being a good son picking him up from the airport.