Tayo Awosusi-Onutor is a singer, author and publisher.

She describes herself as Afro-Sintezza. She interprets her music in English, German and Romani.

Tayo studied German and multimedia in Heidelberg and Karlsruhe. She is a co-founder of RomaniPhen e.V. and part of IniRromnja.

She is interested in education, history and the civil rights movement.

In 2017, she published the film documentary “Phral mende – Wir über uns. Perspectives of Sinti* and Roma* in Germany.”

In 2021, Tayo’s first children’s book “Jokesi Club. Jekh, Dui, Drin – 3 girlfriends in Berlin” was published. In the book, three friends, who are young Romnja: or Sintizzi:, are the heroines of the story.

JOKESI Club is the first German-language children’s book series with Romani and Sinti characters as the heroines of the story.

The JOKESI Club book series will be published by the newly founded book publisher omobooks Verlag from 2023.

omobooks Verlag wants to offer all (young) people books that make different realities of life visible. Especially those that are often invisible. The focus here is not on situations or people, but on their own voices.

Tayo is also politically active in various communities of color. Further information on her artistic work can be found at:

www.tayo-online.de

"The visibility and self-representation is important for our community and especially for the women is very important and necessary. That is why I am especially happy to be part of RomaniPhen. I wish and hope that our society understands that we fight together against racism and that everybody must be feminist in order to protect our human rights."