Lydia Olufisayomi Olanrewaju, known as the artiste pHisayo (pronounced “fee-sah-yoh,”), is a Nigerian poet and singer from Abeokuta in Ogun state Nigeria.

Olufisayomi was born in Kaduna Nigeria to a Carpenter father and a seamstress mother. She inherited her love for crafting from both parents. Her mother would design with cloth as beautifully as her father would craft with wood.

She chose words as her crafting raw material, but still loves being surrounded by wood and loves poring through fashion designing blogs and magazines to stay connected to her childhood days when she could run happily between the swathes of clothes in her mother’s shop into the heady soul lifting smells of sawed wood and shavings in her father’s work shed.

As the fifth of seven children, she didn’t have the pressures her older siblings had to deal with, of setting any positive examples to worry about. She was allowed to roam within the wild fields of her imagination without disturbance. And she thrived at exploring the world through the pages of all the books she could find to read, including the dictionary! Her Songs and poems mirror parts of her adventures as she tries to capture them and set them to words or music.

Her latest work, collaboration with Tony the Emperor titled “O tojo Meta” is enjoying positive feedback and airplay across continents.

pHisayo is working with a team of inspired producers- on her debut album which she promises will have ‘something for everyone’. It will be clear from the album, that she is strongly influenced by traditional classical music as well as rock, pop, dance-hall and even folk.