My father rejected me because I am an albino – Byno Ayoni

winner of 2023 TV3 Mentorship, Byno Ayoni, has disclosed some of the saddest part of his life growing up as a child. According to the TV3 Mentor fame, he was abandoned by his father because of his albinism, while he lost his mother just three months later.

“I didn’t know my father growing up. According to what my grandmom told me, when I was born, the man came to the hospital, saw me, and said, ‘We don’t have this thing in my family.’ So he ran away. My mom, out of pain and disappointment, died when I was just three months old,” he stated.

Byno Ayoni revealed that it was his grandmother who raised him, and he faced a lot of societal discrimination while growing up.

“So my grandmom took responsibility. At the time, I was a sickly child. I got so sick, according to my grandmom and the people who saw me grow up, that you could see the food travelling down my stomach when I was eating. That’s how sick I was.

“I attended Holy Star Academy in Aflao. That’s my primary basic school in Aflao. I didn’t struggle much with acceptance there because I was shielded by the headmaster, and anyone who did something wrong to me would be punished severely.

“It was because of him that I fell in love with music very early. He made me join the band, the brass band. I was five years old at the time. And then music started from there,” Byno Ayoni disclosed.